Flying into Sapporo from Tokyo was a short, sleep-filled ride.  We quickly collected our baggage and tried to figure out how exactly we were going to get to Niseko. We had our first taste of real sushi and Japanese beer while we waited to catch our bus. We took a snowy bus trip from the airport Niseko with a short stop at Mushroom Kingdom (a mushroom store/convenience store). Once we arrived in Niseko we hauled all of our bags through the village to our new jobs. We were greeted by a few people we work with and were shown to our new place. Our house is a decent sized place that houses twenty people, most of which work at "Proski" alongside us. Despite having so many people under one roof, the house is surprisingly calm and organized. Since most of us work at the same shop, our shifts and snowboarding scheduals are varied enough that the house seems to work really well.  

Today we woke up to about 20 cms of fresh snow on top of the large mounts of powder that had fallen in the last few days.  We both got up early and went out for a few runs, which we both agreed were the best we have ever had.  The new snow on top of the ludicrous amounts that had fallen in the last few days resulted in waist deep runs and gigantic smiles.  After snowboarding for the morning, we headed in and tried to de-jetlag ourselves with an afternoon nap before we took off to Kutchan (the neighboring town) to get groceries for the next little while.

The night ended of with hanging out and getting to know the people we work/live with and then an early night to bed to try to get our internal clocks set to Japanese time.