February 20th

‘Can we do snowshoe tour today?’ she said over the phone this morning 🤙

And now here I had three close siblings 💃💃🕺🏻from Belgium 🇧🇪 today!

The younger 💃is an exchange student from Tokyo🗼and is travelling 🛤with her 💃and 🕺 on their visit to 🇯🇵

It rained ☔️ yesterday in Shiga Kogen.
The snow bulk on the surface of the pond (around 1,500m high) had decreased considerably🌨
They said they were not good swimmers 🏊, so we took a shortcut to the edge of the pond, looking for a place where we could walk through.

🌲a native forest, formed by an old lava flow🌋 ☄️with many huge boulders🪨, so if you made a mistake, you could fall into a hole 🕳️ and not come until spring 🌱
But today, the rain had kept the snow surface firm, their adventure continued deeper into the forest🌲🌲🌲

The younger 💃who’s studying 📚 🇯🇵’s history said that Ghibli and 🇯🇵’s 80s pop music were her inspiration for coming to this country to study 📝.
For me, when they were making their way through evergreen forests, they looked like a big Totoro, a middle Totoro, and a small Totoro…🥰

✨ Updated info: now we can walk on the pond again after a dump of a big snowfall🌨
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2月20日のツアー

「今日はツアーできますか？」
と志賀高原に飛び込んで来てくれたのは、ベルギー🇧🇪からの仲良し三弟姉🍡
妹さんが東京の留学生で、お姉さんと弟さんの訪日に合わせて旅行中🚅とのこと。

志賀高原は昨日☔️
池の表面(標高1500m付近)の雪嵩がだいぶ減ってました⬇️
3人とも🏊‍♂️は得意じゃないということで(←冗談ですよ😚)歩けそうな場所を見つけイケメン(池面)ショートカット💇🏼

続く原生林🌲の森は巨大な岩🪨がいくつも転がる昔の溶岩流☄️で出来た地形なので、一歩間違えば穴🕳に落ちて春まで🌱出てこれない(かもしれない)場所。
それでも雨のおかげで雪面がしっかり締まっていたので、3人の冒険は奥の奥まで続きました💪

🇯🇵の歴史を学んでいるという妹さん、きっかけはジブリと🇯🇵の80年代ポップスなんですって✨
森の中を進んで行く彼らの姿は、まるで大トト中トト小トトに見えました🥰

⭐️昨日からのどか降り🌨により、今日のツアーではイケメン歩けたようです👣！