Saturday, July 18, 2009

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.

5 comments:

  1. lol, i think i like your picture accompanied recounts, they're fun to read.

    You should try snowboarding! But only coz I don't know what snowboarding is like and i don't think i know any snowboarders. It looks way more fun than skiing.

    Your snowman is more like a snowbaby. : D

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  2. Yes, I second pictures! =D
    Hahaha, it's really sad but I can tell Devona and you apart even when you're little blobs...

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  3. LOL at your snow baby!

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  4. ...yay for pictures! and. my snowbaby is cool. I should have made a family of snowbabies. It would have been great =D

    Snowboarding looked hard! I can't skateboard, what makes you think I can snowboard? xD

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  5. Well you don't have to worry about staying on the board for one thing. I mean, you're stuck on the damn thing xD

    @rgsd i think devona's the taller one :'D

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