Kyogoku

New Year's eve, always a blast spending it in Niseko. Joe-san and I were off riding again today, meeting up with his "friend" and her companion as well. Pretending like nothing happened, like I didn't just lose another good night's sleep. Still, it was still loads of fun as I was definitely better this time around, being able to keep up and even breezing past the other girl with ease during the more difficult slopes. We were doing the more challenging routes this time around and I was able to do it just fine. After the morning ride, we went back to the sharehouse because Sam was picking us up to go to the onsen. We stopped by a convenience store to buy some snacks to fill up our bellies before taking the dip. We drove to Kyogoku Onsen and were able to just get a lot of bonding time with the bros, eating some dinner that came with the ticket coupon. We got back to Himawari and I watched Netflix's Death to 2021 movie with Joe-chan, similarly we watched Death to 2020 with Libby and Kieran last winter.

It was hard to decide where to spend New Year's as there were a couple of choices including the usual at Tamashi's but also spending it at Dan's bar, The Way or at a private invite-only junction. We had our pre-drinks, mine was the gift I got from Paul during the Secret Santa a couple of days ago which were some Rusutsu Love Beer. I decided to go where Joe-san was going which was the private party, Joe-chan and the rest of the girls, as well as Sam were also heading there anyways. We were picked up by Bia and Ian, and with us were Hiromi and Joe-san. Oddly enough, Ian was dating both Hiromi and Bia which made the ride quite awkward for them I bet. We were dropped by the bar which had a trippy entrance and waited until the countdown. I was able to meet a bunch of people so it was a really fun night, we then headed out into the snow to set off some fireworks and went back in for some more drinks before heading out to Tamashi's.Read more