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Friday
After an interesting lunch time shopping adventure with Dave T, I scooted home speedy from work and packed the car. Chenny, myself and connie were all pretty stoked to be going to the snow for the weekend, but laziness was a big wo to us, and we didn't get away until about 7pm. We drove right through to cooma (about 4 hours worth) where we got some petrol at rediculously high prices, and paid a visit to some shops selling second rate snow goods. Another uneventful hours drive to jindy followed, and we were there. Finding the place was a little more difficult. We saw a bunch of kangaroos hopping around the roadside down one wrong turn, and further on a rabbit that I was pretending to try and run over. It was totally never going to happen with its sharp reflexes and superior agility. A phone call later and we'd found the place. Crashed out quickly on the floor and set alarms for 6am :|

Saturday
Epic perisher blue powder day! At times I was in knee deep snow, weaving smoothly through the trees having a ball. I did a lot of snowboarding with connie. No boarding pictures because it was snowing all day. Putting on chains was pretty finger numbingly painful, but better than not having any snow.

The day was completed with a generous serving of hot, overpriced donuts from the donut guy, and we headed back to jindabyne for food and shopping. Connie picked up some new boots and bindings, while engaging in some general tomfoolery. We ate dinner at marios mineshaft which gets progressively more expernsive and less good every year, but at least the calzone is still massive. We had fun anyways, chewing on food while australia pwned england in the rugby.

We got back to the accommodation and the place was dead. Everyone crashed out asleep. It was only 9pm but there was nothing to do so we went to sleep too.

Sunday
Chenny's cousin sold us his thred-woe lift passes for $50 because they were going home early. We jumped at the chance and gleefully drove up to thredbo. Connie had to get some guy to put on her bindings because they used some weird allen key system, so we were a little slow getting out on the slopes. It was a nice day, connie was having fun on the supertrail and absolutely loving her new equipment. Fun was had by all.

When we got back to jindabyne after the day on the snow we had to drop off the tyre chains. At the garage was some more dubious snowboarding equipment and on closer inspection we found it to be VERY dubious snowboarding equipment. All jokes aside I think everyone's stuff went really well, and we all had a lot of fun. I drove all the way home, because I was feeling OK. I was dead by the end of the trip though, and crashed out asleep rather quickly.

posted by hunt @ 12:12 PM