I woke up a few times in the night bcos I was worried about my foot whenever I had to change position. I was hoping that I could still walk the following day bcos it was supposed to be a sightseeing day with Nana. This was already the plan even before I injured my ankle. After some researching, we decided to head to Nagano, which is a big city near to Iiyama.
It was still white when we woke up.
We headed down for bfast. Zaky and I had a lot of bread bcos the bread was so nice and it was our last chance. Bfast was French toast. We couldn't finish that bcos we were already full from the freshly baked bread. Hoho.The presentation was 120 marks.
We were checking out and had our bags packed. While Daddy Lim and I went around picking up last bit of stuff, the kids ran out to enjoy the last bit of snow play.
The plan was for the boys to head up to Shiga Kogen for their last day of SB lesson. On their way to the mountain, Nana and I would drop at the Iiyama station and take the train to Nagano. We would meet the boys in the pm for the Shinkansen back to Tokyo.
Goodbye to the lodge. It had been a comfortable 3 nights stay.
I could walk, though a tad slowly. Nana was actually keen to just stay in the lodge and roll in the snow. But logistically it didn't make sense; we had to check out at 11am and the boys were on the other side. More importantly, I really didn't want to waste a day.
We were dropped off as planned, only to realise that the train was very infrequent. It was 9.16am and the train was arriving at 10.05am. Nana complained that her shoes were wet from the snow play and her feet cold. We had time and decided to get a new pair of socks at the supermarket next door.
The socks made all the difference. Bcos I walked so slowly, we had just enough time to walk to the mart, buy socks and walk back. It already felt like a very chilled day.
We had a short time to thaw in the heated waiting room....
...before the train arrived.
On the way to Nagano.
It was beautiful and peaceful. No rush, unlike the busy Tokyo.
I was in Zaky's cargo pants bcos my jeans were too skinny to fit my sprained ankle. Luckily I decided to bring an additional pair of shoes for the trip. My track shoes wrapped around my feet snuggly and I couldn't fit into them. This pair with the laces worked perfectly.
It took about 50 mins to reach Nagano. There is a famous shrine and castle but we didn't have enough time with my paika-ness. Nana wasn't interested too. We ended up mall crawling. There are a couple of malls near to the train station.
Chomp, chomp, chomp.
We saw Donki and spent a good amount of time roaming. Souju only SGD2ish.
Now that Zaky is so grown (physically), Tiger is so small. He wasn't even hugging Tiger in the nights but insisted on bringing. Then he forgot about Tiger but again insisted that we should bring him home. We were thinking if somebody from the Lodge could send Tiger to the station, or send Tiger to Tokyo or mail to Singapore. We would bear the expenses. There was no replies; I supposed the staff were all busy. Then I remembered that the other Singapore family was still in the Lodge! They agreed to help us to bring Tiger back to Singapore. Hoho.
Bcos the train was so infrequent, we had to catch the 2.05pm train back to Iiyma. I was walking so slowly and we had to make our way back to the station early. Seriously, an elderly couple (and many more) overtook me. Lol.
Lunch was done at a cafe in the mall next to the station.
We made it onto the train and it started snowing again.
We were back in Iiyama at about 3pm and the boys arrived at the station at about the same time. Daddy Lim said that it was a different resort and the ski lift was a long cable car ride. It was a long ride but a gentle slope and thus a good SB session. He only went for 3 runs bcos it was very long and very cold. Zaky did 6! Zaky was very happy with the SB session and thoroughly enjoyed himself.
We had time for a snack/ coffee.
The Shinkansen.
The kids were snacking no end.
We had dinner at a nearby restaurant. Daddy Lim and Nana ordered raw egg and were happy cracking their egg into their Don. Eeeewwwwkkk....
We finally settled down for the night. My poor ankle was still swelling but no longer solely at the ankle joint. I thought it looked like the days when my feet were swelling so much due to water retention when I was preggy with Nana. Haha.
At least I could walk. At least no bones were broken and I didn't need medical care.
Mummy Lim
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