Snowy snowy snow

So. I think its high time for me to write about my trip to Mt Ruapehu.

=D (drums please!)
(coz. a mountain is high. Yeah. I'm terrible I know. xD)

I came back like a week ago, so I suppose this isnt really recent. Oh well. At least I'm getting it done.

Mt Ruapehu is like a zillion hours away by car. I had packed books to read but I read one sentence and felt like throwing up. Yay for carsickness =_=

So I played Eyespy with Devona. The most fail game of eyespy on the planet. It went like this.

Devona: I spy with my little eye something beginning with...the...letter...Tree!
Me: Whuuuh?

After you get past car and tree and house and rock and cow and sheep, there's not much to spy anymore. Thankfully we didn't drive straight to Mt Ruapehu from Auckland or my ass would have needed to be amputated or something, we made a stopover in Rotorua.

My family is so lame. Everytime we go past Rotorua we make fart jokes. xD

Anyway, Rotorua is amazing! Mostly I love the bach we stayed at. Its the nicest place ever. Its right in front of a lake and its so peaceful and serene and yeah I love it and I want a bach like it.

This is me and Devona attempting to feed ducks. They didn't seem to like us... (its that or they're camera shy).

So. The next day we went to this town near Mt Ruapehu. Okehere? Okehune? Something like that. All i know is that its famous for its carrots.

So famous there's even a giant carrot shrine where the locals go and worship the almighty carrot God. I don't know why we're hugging the carrot. Devona and I don't even like carrots that much.



But the first day we went the weather was terrible! So we weren't allowed to go on the mountain for fear we'd fall off.

But it sure was pretty =D

The next day we were all like YEAHHH SNOW! Snowy mountains look like cookies and cream icecream. I was just like WOAHHHH ICECREAM! But it was snow.

So we bundled up in about 50 million layers of clothing and drove to the top of the mountain. Well not the very top, coz we suck at skiing.

Ski shoes are horrible by the way. Everything about skiing is horrible. As soon as I put my skis on i started sliding away and I was like OMFG WTF WHAT DO I DO? So I fell down.

Yeah. Notice how we're NOT moving?


I look like I know what I'm doing in that picture. Pictures lie.

I spent more time falling down than actually skiing. I fell down once in front of these group of people learning how to ski. The instructor must have been like 'okay students, that is how you DON'T ski!' Yeah. Then I fell down in front of this little kid. He laughed at me. Oh well.

Another thing about falling down when skiing is that its incredibly hard to get up. Super duper hard. My mum had to pull me up xD Which was also very shaming.

I gave up after a while and went toboganning. Which is waaay more fun!

VHOOOOM! I'm the blob on the pink toboggan if you couldn't tell.

No skill required =D

Then we made a snowman. Which is harder than it looks. But I think me and Devona pulled it off xD

Building the snowman.

The finished product! Accessorised and everything =D

And that's pretty much it. Snow is cool. But kind of overhyped. Maybe next time I'll try snowboarding.

The nose knows and says NO!

Yay for lame titles =D

I shall tell you about the horrible smells my nose had to suffer in the course of this otherwise uneventful day. It is a story of utmost horror, dark comedy and extreme coolness. I know. Buckle your seatbelts, its going to be a very exciting ride (or a boring ride, but you really should buckle your seatbelt anyway because its illegal not to).

So this morning I woke up at the wee hour of 7:45 am. Yes. During the holidays. I don't know how I do it, but since I love my cat, I dragged my ass out of bed to take Skittles to the vet.

Here's a picture of the darling angel =D

Shes looking a bit more docile than usual in this picture.

Skittles eye has been a bit gross so, as responsible pet owners, we dutifully took her to the vet.

I now realise she hates her carry case. Really really hates it. She made her dislike heard.

Me: Skittles please get in the carry case
Skittles: Mowwwwr
M: Okay I'm gonna shove you in!
S: MOWWWWRRR!!!!
M: ...Mum I can't do it! She'll claw my eyes out!

Yeah so we got her in. Then put her in the car. Where Skittles proceeded to pee.

Cat pee is the most foul smelling substance on the planet. =_=
Then we got to the vet and found out she had also pooed. =_____=
(but the veterinarian was a lovely lady and changed the newspaper for us).

That was okay. Because I love my cat and will put up with her retarded bladder and bowel movements. Yeah.

But you know whats not okay? People who don't shower. And show themselves in public.

Devona and I took a walk to the library. We're lazy and decided we need the exercise. On the way we encountered a very smelly man. It was terrible. But we walked past him really quickly so it was more like WHIFF and that was it.

Then we caught the bus home. As mentioned above, we are very lazy. Devona and I were like the first ones on the bus so we sat down. Then this guy, out of all the empty seats in the bus, sat down in front of us.

Oh my god. It was terrible. I wanted to move but didn't want to be rude. So we sat there, while Devona just sat there laughing at my facial expressions.

It was so so so bad. He smelt like he hadn't washed since he came out of the womb. You know how early scientists named foul smelling compounds from decaying bodies (putrescine, cadeverine etc). Yeah. Well I would definitely call that stench hoboine.

His stench was also quite peculiar. It wasn't a constant smell. It came in waves. Like the stench had a life of its own and each pulse of hoboine was a smelly heartbeat. Ergh.

It was the longest busride of my life.