Skiing at Mt Ruhapehu

After spending the weekend at Mt Rapehu, the biggest NZ alpine resort, our bodies are aching but our mouths are indeed smiling.

On friday, Jørgen, Mari & me joined up with Henrik (UniTech) and Aleksander (UniTech) and drove 5 hours straight to Okahune. Henrik had made use of some flirting skill he probably learns when studying hospitalisation management and gotten hold of a whole house for us to live in. The name of the house? What'ya think? "The Kiwi House"? Think again. It is named "Fjellheim"(!) - as it is previously owned by some norwegians. Anyways, the house was all great - we even had a fireplace!Arriving Okahune in the middle of the night, we had a hard time finding something to eat. How come no grocery shops keep open at 0130 am? We found

that we had gotten a little to used to Foodtown in Auckland, which is open 24/7. Since none of us had eaten since 17pm, we drove around downtown in pure desperation looking for a snack or a slice of bread. Unfortunately, nothing was open, except TCB a shop that rented out clothes and board. Since none of us had any gear for skiing we had to rent everything. So we got really cool, matching skidresses, and snowboard and boots. Really quality equipment:) I still have "blaamerker" on the back of my leg from the boots.

After 4 hours of sleep we woke up to a blue sky and a big sun:) Christians red sign went up right away and he rubbed him self desperatly in with the suncream:) The mountain were really cool, we had to drive through rainforest on the way up, so it we didn't excately get a feeling that we were going for skiing. After we had stand i line for about an hour we were ready for the downhills. In the begining the snowboard were controlling me, but after some time I started to be the boss again:)

After a whole day in the mountain we went back to the cabin, made some good food, played card, drank some bear and fired up the oven. We wasn't excactely gentle with the fire, so we kept it going until the ventil that controlled the hot water said stop. Then we got some nice heavy fall of rain with hot water over the cabin:)

Relaxing in the cabin after a whole day in the alpine resort

On sunday the weather was rather windy but we went out to do some skiing that day too, but after just 2 hours all the lifts were closed down because of the heavy wind. So then we just packed our stuff and started on our way home. It was really a great trip, and it was fun to see some more of New Zealand!!!!

To fornoyde skruller etter et herremaltid pa Mc Donalds