The Coolest ski day ever!!!!

Wowee zow my alarm clock gave me such a fright yesterday (monday) at 3 30 in the morning. I woke everyone else up (Jaws, Dan, and Josh) and we got dressed 4 skiing. Me, Dan, and Beka were going snowboarding, and Jaws, Josh, and Mum were skiing. I think Dad and Kezi were sledding.

Anyway, we finally headed off at 5:00. (would of liked to go earlier, but.........) We picked up Matt, and headed out of town.

The journey from Dannevirke to Fielding was...... silent. Probably cause I was listening to my mp3.

At 6:30 we stopped at a campsite we've camped at other years. We hadn't been there for three and a half years, but me, Jaws, and Dan were still pretty keen on finding our hut in the bush.
It was quite fun, wandering round in the dark forest, trying to find our way through with Daniel's pathetic, faint, torch.

We didn't get far though, and our stomach's were grumbling, so we headed back to the van and had breakfast.

We set of at about 7:30, and travelled through Taihape, and only stopped at Waiouru for a toilet break outside a BP station. (here I laughed. I'll come back 2 that later!=0)

Anyway, there was the meanest view of Mount Ruapahu there. Against a blue sky, it looked so beautiful and amazing:

There were also these tables just covered in ice. We threw it at each other for a while.

We soon set off, but were facing the wrong side of the mountain, so had to circle round it. There were heaps of amazing views:

So, we finally got up the mountain. As soon as we'd parked, me and Jaws started tossing snowballs at Dan and Matt. We went across the road, and slid down hills covered with snow, till we were covered in bruises. After putting sunscreen on, blue sky, not a cloud in sight, changed to thick cloud and fog. You looked around, and all the blue sky just............ vanishes in only ten minutes. Seriously. =0 Still, we walked to the office and brought our tickets. While we were waiting for them, we had a mean snowball fight, and threw snow balls at icicles hanging off the roof. Matt and Beka hit the high slopes, and Dad and Kez went to sled. Mum and Josh went down the mountain. And me and Dan? We didn't know a thing about snowboarding, so you can imagine how we looked. Much to our dislikings, we finally decided we'd have to have a snowboard teacher. (last time we went, we seriously waited a whole hour for our ski teacher, who was a Japenese, and not very useful). But me and Dan were desperate. We amazingly waited only ten minutes b4 our snowboard teacher came, who was a lot more useful than the other one two years ago.

After an hour of slipping, falling over, getting countless bruises and cuts, and being absolutely covered in snow, me and Dan took the ski lift up to the top. By then it was lunchtime. Me and Dan swapped our snowboards for skiis, and Beka did the same. The person who got our skiis was really wacko in the head. And I mean it. He sang rap to all the songs on the radio (something about singing along with bacon) and swore every time he dropped his pen! Me, Dan, and Jords finally hit the slopes once before lunchtime. Dad was getting lunch from the van, so we just had enough time. =) I wasn't bad at all, and didn't slip over once! For not skiing in two years, I wasn't bad at all. When we finally got off the ski lift, we skiied over to our lunch. Beka and Matt came down, as well.

After lunch, me and Jords spotted a jump, which actually turned out to be a steep as slope. We finally tackled it and did the next three jumps in a row sweet as. It was easily the best time down. When you took off your sunnies, everything was so bright (you normally did this waiting in line for the ski lift) and the scenery was just incredible! =0

After a couple more times down, we had to go. We took our skii's back to the wacko guy, and took the ski lift back up to the top. Then we walked back to the van and got changed.

Then we had hot pies for tea, and headed back for home. In Fielding, Dad stopped to look at a car. Matt kept saying "BP!" cause he really felt like Coke. We finally went down the road to look for a petrol station, and the first one we saw was BP! So Matt finally got his Coke! =0 Haha We had such a fun time, and got back at around 9:30. By morning, I felt like a skeleton!

Yeah, but man, it was so much fun!!!!!!!!

Cya

Nate