Snowboarding
August 8th 2006 -
Well, that’s that. A week of snowboarding, and no serious injuries or mishaps, so obviously none of us were trying hard enough.
It was, of course, good. I drove over to Canberra on Friday night, had dinner at Dave & Fiona’s place with The Gang, moseyed around on Saturday in a relaxed fashion (though I helped Ev record a song) and then we took off for the snow on Sunday morning.
When we arrived in Jindabyne, we were hit by what would turn out to be a trend: the Station Resort people had lied to us, by omission, failing to point out that our gear hire and lift pass for the Sunday afternoon would be free. We had been expecting to pay extra – we had our credit cards out and everything – so it was a mighty inconvenience to have to put the credit cards away and grumblingly put our wallets back in our pockets. Later, we discovered that rather than the three night’s dinner we were expecting, our deal included *five* night’s dinner. Once again, the inconvenience of having to change our plans almost completely ruined our holiday. We met up with our room-mate, Shaun (who knows Ev and Sara-Jane, and joined our group of me, Ev, Sara-Jane and James V. fairly late-on) and exchanged bitter complaints about the free extras they had given us. Shaun himself massively inconvenienced us earlier by joining our group, bringing the per-head price down by over $60, and forcing us to spend money on other things instead. Bastard.
So, off we went for a lovely afternoon’s wobbling about on the beginner’s slopes. By the end of the day, the clouds were descending and it was pretty clear we were getting some snow. Monday was very snowish (after choking down the tasty free dinner on Sunday night) and we discovered – scumbags! – that lessons were extremely cheap over at Blue Cow. We ended up spending much of the week over at the Blue Cow area, as the runs were quite lovely and it wasn’t too crowded. I even got a solo lesson one afternoon because nobody else showed up.
Anyway, there’s really not too much to say. We bought much beer and drank it in the evenings, and sat around watching TV or playing cards, utterly stuffed from a hard day on the slopes. We ate far too much, and burned it off almost immediately. The snow was fine – better than NZ last year, and Monday and Thursday brought extra snow and the thrilling sight of real, proper, fat snowflakes.
That’s that. Now I’m back at work and mentally still out there, on the slopes somewhere, zipping down a blue run in the soft, soft snow…
Claire Says:
August 11th, 2006 at 4:03 am
Unlucky. You should move to Ireland where you will never get such nasty suprises.
admin Says:
August 11th, 2006 at 11:17 am
Heya CB!
Give me a call. I need to know your new number. And we should chat: we haven’t talked in ages! Or else, email me your new phone number.
lexifab Says:
August 12th, 2006 at 7:44 pm
Glad to hear there was some decent snow. Still waiting for some here – apparently it’s going to drop down to about 10 degrees here on the west coast of Wales in the next day or so, so with any luck by the time we get to the Highlands we’ll have a chance of real horror weather, despite the fact that it’s still summer here :)