Ski Trip
Day 1 - Sunday:
Planned to leave at 8am sharp from my place. Sara came over at 7:30. Jason was on time. Phi calls me at 8:15am saying he just got up. B@stard. Phi and MJ finally arrive at approx. 9:30 and we headed off for breakfast at Maccas. The usual maccas breakie and then we hit the road. Stopped at Canberra for lunch, had kebabs. Spent half an hour looking for a vacant public toilet. Eventually went to the toilet at the Starbucks where Minh yelled "Blardy tourists!" a few years back. Canberra is such a hole. Same goes for their NRL team. Off we went again and got to Jindabyne at around 4pm. Me and Sara picked up our ski gear quick smart. When we finished, Phi still hadn't decided where he wanted to hire his gear. B@stard. Sat around waiting for him and that's when I locked my keys in the car. Took Phi a full hour to get his stuff organised then had to wait a bit longer before NRMA arrived. Was freezing then. Drove off in the dark to Bullocks Flat and unloaded. Parked the car and waited for the next Ski tube. It was freezing. Excitement and morale was high though. Called up the lodge to tell them to save some dinner for us. Got to the lodge at around 8pm and had dinner. Spent the rest of the night drinking and eating snacks. Spilled beer in Phi/MJ/Jasons' room. Had to open the beer bottles on the side of the bunk bed as we didn't bring a bottle opener. Phi took a few incriminating pics of Sara slumped over the bed with bottles of alcohol around her. Then I jumped on her and it looked really bad.
Day 2 - Monday:
Sara and I went to Ski lessons while the other 3 went to snowboarding lessons. Our lesson was good. Very basic. Great for beginners but a little too basic for me. Still, it was nice to refresh yourself on it. Our instructor is cool. He's fairly old, tall, from Germany and is very thorough with his lessons. Spent the first day of lessons at Smiggins doing snowploughs and turns. In the afternoon Sara stayed at the little practice beginner slope while the rest of us when to the higher slopes. Spent the evening playing cards and drinking.
Day 3 - Tuesday:
Learned to Traverse the mountain today. Sara's picking it up a lot quicker than what I did when I first skied. In the afternoon we went to Perisher and skiied the front valley. That's where Sara had her accident. Ran into a snowboarder and had to stretchered down the mountain and taken to the medical center. She could barely walk for the rest of the day. Spent the rest of the afternoon with her at the lodge. After dinner the other 3 went night skiing. The snow has consistenly been getting worse and worse. Smiggens is almost unskiable.
Day 4 - Wednesday:
Sara was back on her feet today. Miraculous recovery. Went to Perisher to do our lessons today. Had a good day learning to ski with parallel skis. Our instructor is such a good teacher. At one point had to ski like f@gs (holding our poles up in front of us and doing the butt wiggle) past a group of snowboarders who happened to be Phi/MJ/Jasons group. Skiied past Phi and he slapped me on the butt. In the afternoon we stayed at Perisher. I did some jumps with JC. Fell on most of them because I was trying to get too much air. Sara was still traumatised by the slope. That night Phi kissed me on the cheek. B@stard.
Day 5 - Thursday:
Massive dump of snow last night and the conditions are bad. Windy as hell, bad visibility and COLD. Didn't go to lessons today as we just wanted to ski and have fun. Stupid lift stopped a few times on the way up because it was too windy. Was stranded up there for almost 10 minutes with the snow hitting my face. Dunno why they had the snow guns firing though, it was snowing naturally. After a few runs Sara and I called it quits for the day. Had lunch then headed back to the lodge. Played Monopoly that night of which Phi won. Then proceeded to get smashed. Mixed some wicked drinks which became our undoing. At one stage I got up to dance with Sara but immediately sat back down as I felt sick. Hugged the toilet bowl for the next 2 hours. Didn't spew. Was so out of it that I was drifting in and out of consciousness. Woke up with my chin ON the porcelain a couple of time. Disgusting. Sara went into the other room to throw up. Phi went outside where it's sub-zero temperatures to get some fresh air. Crazy. Then came back and threw up. Jason just slept like a baby. MJ who had retired earlier came back and drank 7 shots in 5 minutes to finish off the rest of the alcohol. I then decided to do a number 2 in the toilet. It wasn't gonna come up this end so I let it out the other end. Felt better after that and went to bed.
Day 6- Friday:
Got a headache today. And dehydrated. Sara and I skiied till noon then headed back. The others decided to stay until 5pm. We got to Bullocks Flat, drove the car to the luggage drop off point, then my car stopped running and wouldn't start again. Needed a jumpstart, then all was good. Got to Jindabyne, had lunch then headed home. Got back to Bankstown at around 6:30 and had Pho An. Ahhh what a nice way to end the trip :)
