Rain rain go away!

Well, now it is bucketing down in Hakuba. Big fat heavy rain. I swear, this has got to be the worst place in Japan right now. There is shit snow to start with, but this rain is just killing it. Absolutely no chance of anything good.
The problem now is, if it gets cold enough to snow, all this rain will just ice up. So the choices are slushy, or icy. Remind you of anywhere in particular.... Australia maybe??!

Sold my lift pass again today. It's not worth skiing at all - so may as well make a bit of coin!
The only problem is, there isn't much to do here other than go up the mountain. It is just a ski town, and a pretty crap one at that. The brochure looked so good! Everyone is saying this has been the worst season in 40 years here. Not happy.

Yesterday we explored the town a bit, such that it is. Not much around. I have no idea how they managed to get the winter olympics here. Then we went to an Onsen, one of the Japanese hot spring baths and chilled out there for a while. So good and relaxing. Afterwards felt like I could sleep for about 24 hours straight. Instead we went to the pub and had a decent feed. Western food. A burger, salad and home-made wedges. So so good. Getting slightly sick of all the salty, soupy, noodle things, with no fresh veggies etc.

2 days to go till I get to leave this hell hole. Tomorrow I've booked myself onto a tour to go and see the snow monkeys that live in the natural hot springs, that will be cool, so that just leaves friday to find something to do. Hopefully there will be some snow of some description. Might have to make a sacrifice to the snow gods, or do a snow dance or something, getting pretty damn desperate.