Today is gonna be our first day on the slopes.Chris a I have skiied before, about 6 years ago in New Zealand, and Kate and Laura have not skiied before. Chris and Laura are gonna ski board and Kate and I are gonna ski. Chris has been talkin it up for months so we have a competition...first day straight up take the ski lift to the top and first one down wins. Im pretty confident I can winn that one but I am sure it will be a different story on the last day. Breakf...

The flight up was fairly uneventful except for the last couple of hours when Laura got sick. They were just the usual flights with a stopover in KL and then straight to Tokyo. The taxi I booked was there to meet us and we had to go to Terminal1 to collect another couple who were also from Aus. They had come up on Singapore airlines.The first part of the drive was fairly quiet cos the kids slept a bit since none of us got much sleep on the plane. We had 2 piot sto...