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...

Today was a Broomball day. We had two games, both against Australia. We won our first game 3-0 and we lost our second game 1-0. We played hard and the game we lost I think they had only two shots on net. The one the scored was on a break away. We played hard and we will meet that team again!! At the hotel here they have onsen aka hot springs up in the top floor. I went up and had a shower before going in. You sit on a little stool and shower sitting down. They ha...

What a great day! Started off the day with breakfast in my comfy jimbei. The hotel has a buffet breakfast. There was your typical breakfast stuff like bacon, eggs, waffles and yogurt...but there was also rice, fish and curry. I decided to be safe and eat what I knew before I had to play Broomball. We headed off to our first game. We played against a team from Japan. The score was 0-0. We played 95% of the game in their end. We hammered them with shots but they pl...