Scott and Evie got season passes to the local slopes, but Nora and I did not! We've gotten into a routine of all of us going cross country skiing for a few hours first, and then while Scott and Evie go downhill skiing for another hour or two, Nora and I have been hanging out at the lodge reading or doing oragami or playing games. This last weekend, we got some fries and then found a nice spot by the window to watch the skiers come down the hill.
We got back from Japan about a week ago and we're still talking about what a great trip it was! Japan has never been super high on my places to visit but for a lot of reasons (I've never been, it's clean, it's safe, it's different) we took the plunge and booked it as our summer vacation this year. It helped that our friends, the Wongs, went last year, raved about it and loved it so much they were going again and we were able to coordinate so that some of our trip overlapped with theirs. It helped even more that the yen is at a 10-year low (maybe all time low?) against the dollar, which, aside from airfare, made everything quite affordable. Look how low the yen is! We lucked out that it kept falling after we booked our tix in Dec. Since this was our first big overseas trip since COVID and with kids (or, lets face it, SINCE kids), I dove into prepping for our trip - including trying to keep up my Duolingo streak of learning Japanese for at least a few minutes everyd
Fries, hot chocolate and a book sounds like a nice wintery activity to me!
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