So I will start this post letting you know that I am full out cold/flu sickness. Not fun when traveling and thankfully I brought some cold meds with me! So I woke up this morning to find I was actually in a magical place and the nice guy at the train station sent me the most direct route to the hotel which happened to be scary dark alley! My sleep on the mat on the floor was good and I actually slept a long time. Woke up and had breakfast. No western breakfast at...

After an exciting win and celebration last night it was an early morning for my flight to Tokyo. Everything went smoothly and was off the plane and on the train into Tokyo. From there I took a train towards the mountains. I transferred in Nagano on to a smaller local train to a place called Yamanouchi. The train ride was beautiful heading towards the mountains and the fall colors. Hard to take a picture on the bullet train, was getting dizzy at points and I am pr...

We won the gold!! Was another hard played game and we won 2-0! We outplayed Australia again and this time we got the ball in the net twice!! The Yellowknife men's team win as well! So exhausted and heading out to find snow monkeys tomorrow after a plane ride and a train ride or two I hope I find them!

Today was a day off from Broomball. We decided to head to Lake Shikotsu. It was a bit of a chilly day and there were snow flakes at the lake. Lake Shikotsu is the second deepest lake in Japan. There was a small area with shops and a visitors center that we wandered around. We were looking for hot springs and the man at the visitors center sent us to the Marukoma Onsen. WOW so amazing. We sat in the outdoor natural hot springs on the side of this beautiful lake su...

Another Broomball day! We were up at the crack of dawn and off to the arena. We played the last game of the regular round robin and beat Miyabi Japan 3-0. We ended up in 2nd. The play offs are a bit different in this tournament. We did a round robin with the top 3 teams. We played our two games today with a loss to the Aussie Gold team. We outplayed them again but they found the back of the net and we lost 1-0. Then we played against Sakura Japan the top rated Ja...