Nagano

Last weekend we went to Nagano Prefecture with Matt's host brother Hirotaka.

We couldn't leave until Hirotaka's v.tipsy father tanked me full of sake with gold flecks in it (???) over lunch. Can't imagine it's any good for your digestive tract, but Mr Amenomorii seemed to be enjoying it judging by the rosy cheeks and wicked, yet oddly distant, glint in the old man's eye. The Gold was average, but hey, how good can gold taste?

At the resort, the boys went snowboarding at Kisomura resort on Saturday but I was crook with a particularly virulent virus, nicknamed the "Harder-San Flu", so I was left to frolic in the white stuff (the snow, that is) whilst the boys took the slopes.