Oh Canada, Happy Belated Birthday!!!!! How I miss thee!!! Hope everyone back home had a great day! Didn't celebrate it here unfortunately, forgot about it really, oh my where is my patriotism??? Some things you just forget about here in Japan, will have to go back to hanging a Canadian Calendar up in the house, so anyone wanting to buy me an XMAS present back home, you know what to buy now....

Friday night, was really tired but headed out to Hakuba for a 902 special summer party, it was going off there, great dj's was hard to leave early but I did. Ya-Chan and I had planned on training on the San Osaka course again for the upcoming race. Glad I went home early because we did train hard!!! On saturday night, Kouji arrived back from taking his 5 day wilderness first aid course. He really learned a lot and now understands what I went through when I took it in Canada a while back. Sunday, we all went riding, it was another tough training day, then we soaked in a nice onsen (hotspring) afterwards followed by a not so hot meal, won't go back to that place, small servings and just plain not great....won't mention the name of the place....but Santa plays a role in the name. Anyway, back to the grind this week..... more later,,,, K.