Day 2 of Thredbo.

Monday 19th

Woke up to about 3cm's of fresh snow down in the village (WOO!!!) and it was still snowing a bit which was cool.

view from our hotel room

We went and had the best buffet breakfast ever at the hotels restaraunt then headed back to our rooms and geared up.

view of the courtyard/pool from the hotels restaraunt.

Daws Ollie and I went out and the others went to their lessons. we caught the Kosciuszko chair to the top then skied supertrail/ world cup which was pretty fun

Me and Daws gearing up for first runs.

half way up Kozi chair.

Daws had his stoke face on.

getting the bag jump ready.

top of Kozi.

note the lack of snow...

Ollies boots were too small so he started being mr grumpy pants and headed in to see if he could get them changed, they said they were the right size but to get some shitty generic orthotics for 40 bucks to shift his weight around or something...they didnt work and he was grumpy once again

Ollie Neggin.

Meanwhile Daws and I kept hitting the kozi chair and skiing the runs around it while nearly killing all of the small children in the area. Then we headed to the cruiser area on the other side of the mountain and checked out the begginers park, took me a few goes and i destroyed my thumb in the process but i managed to slide a box, and land a few 180's on the shittest jump you have ever seen. We saw the most gangsta skiers in Australia with jackets below their knees, they killed it doing backflips, flatspins and switch 3's on the jump i thought was too shit to do anything on... :(. then we went in met everyone and had lunch, Courtney Vickery and Nada were fully stoked after their lessons which was sick and we all went over to friday flat to cruise around for a bit where we met Alex Bennet whos family arrived that afternoon and we bailed and skied the kozi chair again.

Nada and Courtney on the worlds slowest chairlift at Friday Flat

Friday Flat.

Then we went into the hotel and realised there was $3 shots of schnapps for Schnappy hour in the bar and seeing as we had a complimentary $200 bar tab for booking early we decided to chill out there and try every type of schnapps they had...don't ever try chilli, its just painful. It was snowing pretty big flakes when we left the bar and headed to a pub for dinner but unfortunatly it didnt last long...no powder for us. Then went home and crashed, pretty fun day

Schnappy Hour, the gold one is Butterscotch, sooooo good

In this photo i am being really tough and the others are being weak.

Another update...

OK, said I was gonna write a diary entry of my trip and post it when i get back, part of that is true, i did write a diary and for every single day, only thing is i got back and got lazy, but now, many months later i am bored and need ways to kill time so i am going to finally post it...get excited...

but first... a quick update for those who are interested
its now early November and I recently quit my job at Eziway because i got a new job working for a company called Heider and Sheyers Exclusive Caterers. Hal hooked me up with it and it is a very good job, he gets $50 from the boss (not kidding) and a mention in this post for his efforts. I still work at Kathmandu and im still deffered...i am also getting ready and excited for Canada. i leave here on the 3rd of January, arrive in vancouver the same day and i will be staying at samesun backpackers smack bang in downtown van which is pretty dope, a day later my friend Ollie Pearson will arrive and we will meet up with another friend, jake ross in vancouver, go see an ice hockey match, the sights and probably some shenanigans/ good times depending on how jet-lagged we are. Then late on the 6th ollie and i will meet up with the people running the ski instructor course and they will take us to Whistler to do a 4 week ski instructor course, after that I will be staying with a Friend Oli Micek at his place in Whistler for a further 3 weeks before i go home in time to start uni again...uugghh. but before uni it will be nothing but good times...unless i blow my knee on the first day in which case i might jump off a tall building.

anyway here is day 1 of my Trip to thredbo and Melbourne in July:

Saturday and Sunday The 17th and 18th of July 2010:

After going out for dinner with my family, aunty uncle and cousin at Joy Kitchen in freo (best chinese in the world). We headed to the airport. there i met Ollie Keys, Alex Daws, Nada Baradja, Courtney Kidd and Alex Vickery. we said goodbye to our families, checked in then went and chilled out until our flight was called.

Daws and Ollie

Ollie, Vickery and Nada

We then got on the plane...

Perth burbs at night.

and we were deciding wether or not we should see how many drinks it takes to get drunk on a plane.

but drinks were very expensive so instead we decided on all having celebratory G&T's.

G&T O'clock

About 10 minutes after finishing our drinks we hit turbulance...combined with a stomach full of chinese food and gin and tonic I didnt feel fantastic, but it didnt last too long which was sweet.

After getting 5 minutes of sleep on that flight we arrived in Brisbane half an hour early, grabbed some brekky and watched the sun rise.

Early morning Brisbane airport.

then we hopped on our flight to Canberra where me and Vickery got to enjoy the extra 20cm's of legroom in the emergency exits. with no more sleep had we arrived on time in Canberra, got our bags and walked outside into the -2 degree weather ( which is wayy better than the 36 degree bullshit we are having right now). got onto the bus and headed to Thredbo!

-2 is good!

because there had not been much snow this season we climbed the mountain with very little snow to be seen, we then rounded a corner into the village which also had very little snow, that was pretty depressing, i was looking forward to having a snowball fight when we got off the bus, instead i threw a chunk of ice at ollie that i had found, it hurt him so the iceball fight didnt go any further. we checked into our rooms at the Thredbo Alpine Hotel, then went and got ski passes, the others went and got their rental gear while i weant shopping for ski boots! got a pretty sick pair of salomon mission RS12's for a terrible price of $750. then we went for a quick slide at the beginner slope Friday flat. I hadnt been skiing in 3 years so it was a good feeling and i got to test out my new skis which was frikkin sweet! also it was lots of fun watching people who had never seen snow try and snowboard :P. then me ollie and daws found the kids terrain park about 50 meters away and tried a few small jumps which was also very fun.

Headed back to the hotel, got a pizza which had cheeze and pepperoni for $18...fuckin rip and fell asleep at about 6pm.

that was day 1..more to come soon.