HAKUBA #2 Skiing

The second long weekend of the year, our friends decided to go back to Hakuba to ski. It's a good place, they have ski instruction for kids in English, it's close, we know the routine, and it was so snowy last time, that it was time to see it clearly!
Stefan and William are ski buddies, and ski well together. Ski school is a very good thing.
Tim is showing a drink vending machine at the top. The red buttons mean hot (hot water, num!), and there are the other varieties to get, as well. These machines are literally everywhere in Japan!
They held some of the Nagano Olympics here.
The view.
Tim, Hallie, Dwayne and Eric on the ski lift.
Geeks.
This year's skiing shot. At least William's ski clothing has changed, and he has bigger teeth now...
At the top of the mountain. They skied down, except for one double black diamond that William butt slid down.

Tim took a lot of video, and is working on editing it. I just wanted to get this uploaded in February, so it is in the Feb. blogs. Of course, I am fast typing on March 1, but it's still Feb in America, where the google blogspot server is.

Update: Here is the video!

Also, here is my GPS watch record of the second day. You can see from the elevation chart how we worked our way up to the top chair and spent hours up there. Then skied all the way down to the bottom to pick up William from ski school, then William and I went back up to the top of the hill and then all the way down. Awesome!