Tokyo

Hey there all, we a bunch of us took a trip to tokyo to kill some time.
we have not had many snowboard camps this year and were starting to get board,
its still another week till we have another camp coming so we took off to tokyo for the
weekend.  we stayed at our friends parents house and then just did a bunch of site seeing.
I have already seen all the sites but it was still fun to just show others around the area, and the
crazyness of the busy city.



Looking out onto shibuya street from starbucks window.

waiting for the train

Shibuya street

in a train, nice and busy

harujuku

Ok well this is just off of harujuku street, every sunday afternoon the thing to do it
dress up really strange and just go hang out there all day long.  you see some very interesting
outfits.  good old harujuku.

haunted house

Hi there, well so we have a little problume at northstar, yes thats right we live in a haunted house. i would write you the hole story but derek already did a good job of explaining it all on his blog so i will just give you the link http://dereksjapanphotos.blogspot.com/2006/01/serious-ghost-problem.html so go there and read the story and click on the pic to hear our adventures.
no fear.

compare

Well here are my before and after shots of my beard,

monkey buisness

Ok well today was a beutiful sunny day, and to make things a little bit nicer it was a day off for all of us staff. well we thought to our selfs how will we be spending this lovly day. After a few moment of quite though it was decided on that we should head down to motsumoto city so we could enjoy the action of king kong. well the advanture started normal with loading the van with people and starting down the curve road. there was a bit of anticipation in the air about being able to see some of the famous snow monkeys that live around are parts, so eyes were spred wide as we travelled down. The first monkey was spotted but the momvment of the car was to fast for all eyes to capture it, we entered a small emptyed lot and were able to make our van turn from its origianl path, we now were fallowing our trail and the van was listeain to anything that our eyes told us about monkeys, we slowly pulled over to the side as stampede of monkeys rushed across the road; our team was on hot pursuit as the door of the van rushed open and bodies were moving quick to the exit of the van. As we gazed from across the road at the fleeing wild life we notice it would be a fear filled misson to acually capture our wild life beast friends due to the fast moving 4 wheeled objects everywhere. At this point we saw our own defeat and we were shamed, with lowered head we reluctantly reloaded the van and move back to our original course to motsumoto.
The End

Random post

below are a bunch of just random pics, pretty much it goes like this. we we live in a very small
town in japan and we live very close to everyone we live with and we normally have nothing to
do, so what do you do when you have nothing to do?  you just go crazy pretty much. so take
a look below and enjoy some wonderful pics.

Just one of our friends that works at the ticket center, and yes ill be honest. shes cute.

Ok really i just have no comment for this pic.

so ive gotten board of shaving and the beard is growing, you find out new things when you
have long facial hair, like how snow sticks to your face when you snowboard and it acually
keeps you warmer then normal.

we really do love each other, a nice group huge

comming home from dinner, with a quick stop off for dinner. yeah ha.

christmas party and new years party

Ok well we held a bunch of partys during these lovely holidays, on the 25th we had a small
gathering for christmas with just some of the local crew, it was the very first time meeting
most of these people but it was a good and crazy night, then we held another party on the 31th
to bring in the new year, the night was filled with games, crazyness, eating and funky dancing.
good times.  below are a bunch of pictues from the nights, enjoy







we had a compatition of whos team could make the best christmas tree, i was close but not
quite the winner.

the slacker

Ok, well its the middle of Jan now, and well im finally getting around to updating my blog, sorry to those of you that
acually check it out, my bad.  well here are a few pics of australia, i didnt take to to many as it was hot and its
hard to carry a camera with you when its hot out, but theres about 5 or so.

This is bondi beach, one of the most popular beaches in australia.

christmas tree in sumer time