photoblog: Mt Ruapehu ski trip

i am very free now, and i have nothing to do. so, why not blog right? what to blog? hmm, my long overdue post about my ski trip sounds good :p enjoy!


obligatory photo: walk up to someone and SNAP!


sis and i - first time up on the slopes :)


cant remember when/ where this photo was taken, but i have a feeling i was on the chair lifts then


pretty sight ;)


quite a bit of uncovered brown land. maybe coz it was late season when we went :p i wanna go again next year! when the snow is super thick. who's up for it?



i love both these pictures. i had the second one on "scenery" setting and it turned out really pretty :) like a postcard picture!


a little fountain up on the slopes. interesting huh?


it got really misty at one point, my sis and i were shivering in our seats!


looking down..from where we were. nice scenery - everything was so breath taking!


erm..pretty? i dunno what to say :p


sis and i half way up the mountain -_- it's a long way up!

and then we took more chair lifts up the mountain. the higher we went, the colder we got. and then we just went up to a point until we couldnt go any higher. then we went back down. bracing the wind *shudders at thought of how cold it was*

i'm still amazed how i got through that long day. first of all, i only had 2 hours of proper sleep. the rest of the time, i was napping in the car. but i was full of energy that day!

anyway, after skiing, bro drove us to taupo, and that's where we stayed. it stank -.-" we checked into our hotel, and got everything sorted. then we were out again, for the gondola and sky line. got lost on the way there, but after a few turns, we were back on track and we saw the sky line!

so we got our tickets (i got in for free!), walked a wee bit, and hopped onto the skyline. took some pictures on the way up:


i believe that's lake taupo? LOL


and this is my cheeky sis pulling a face. but i absolutely HEART this photo. she looks SO adorable here *sigh* i miss her...


while waiting for our turn to go on the gondola.

man those gondolas are funnn! if only i didnt have to look after my sis :p i could've gone faster!


sis and i after the gondola, on the chair lifts to go back up. we both got SCOOPED off our feet to get onto this chair lift and boy, it hurts!


took this while waiting for my bro to go on his 2nd round

they had 3 paths i think. scenery, intermediate and expert. i went on the scenery one, coz my sis was too much of a scaredy cat to go on the intermediate, let alone expert path. but oh well, it was still fun :)

so yeah. that's basically the end of this photoblog. summary of the ski trip? i fell over 3 times (or was it 4?), scraped my palm on ice, and my feet were very achy after wearing the ski boots for a long time -_- it was fun nevertheless!