Winter is coming / もうすぐ冬が来る

Today I started winter proofing my apartment.  This consists of me taking bubble wrap, a spray bottle full of water, and spraying down the windows which acts as an adhesive for the bubble wrap to stick to the windows.

To be honest, I really think everyone is over reacting to the winter.  Over the past couple weeks I have heard about 100 times how I am going to die when the winter comes.  I am pretty sure waking up at 3 in the morning to plow snow in New Jersey has made my blood thick enough that I will be drinking my coffee on my balcony in a thong.

Anyway, I am extremely excited for snowboarding.  I am currently figuring out which mountain I want to get a season pass for.  I have heard mixed reviews.  The most common piece of advice I have received is to get a pass for Nozawa Onsen.  I have also heard it is worth it to pony up the extra cash to pay for the Super pass which gives access to 3 olympic resorts.  The final piece of advice was to go to a smaller mountain that has an amazing terrain park.  I will have to investigate further on this.  Probably purchasing a pass to the resort most of my friends will be getting is going to take the cake.

So, over the past week I got a snowboard rack put on my car.

I will be following up this post with an update of my weekend and a hike I went on in Shigakogen