Ski Trip!!

On Wednesday night the Stevensons got here. They are our very good friends from Idaho. They got to Japan late so we didn’t get to see them. We saw them the next morning and they went to school with us. They where supposed to get here on Tuesday night but they missed their first flight and were 24 hours late. School was a lot more fun with them. The kids, Lucy and Briggs, are twins so they were both supposed to go to Decker’s class. Since Lucy is my good friend, she got to go to fifth grade for the day. Their parents are Megan and Justin but we call them Mego and Dodo. We showed them around and went to Toriton*.

On Friday we left for Kiroro. We stayed in the Barn!!!!! If you read my earlier blog, you would remember that I have always wanted to go to the barn. Well, not always, just once I found out it existed. We stayed in a house five minutes away from the barn that the same guy owned. He also owned a pizza place! We stayed in that house for 2 nights and we went to Kiroro every day. It was soooooooo awesome!!!! The first two days were complete powder days and then the third day was a sunny bluebird day!!!!!!!! The powder days were awesome!!!!!! We kept finding untracked powder stashes and it was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!! The barn was also soooooo cool!! They had two llamas, four bunnies, one duck, a miniature horse, a pony, three dogs, and even an ostrich!!!!!!! They also had goats. There was one goat that was born a week and two days ago and it was sooo cute!!! And, even though you think it can’t get any better, they had baby goats that we born two hours ago!!!!!!!!!! They had to be kept in a separate place because it was too cold for them. We got to see them for thirty seconds and then we had to close the door. We got to let the week old goat out and she ran around so funny! On the third day we left and drove to Niseko and stayed in the place we stayed in last time. It’s called Alpine. I’m on the couch right now in Alpine writing this. I think we are going skiing today but I’m not sure.