Big Adventures, Little World

Archive for 2011

By now we were getting used to the early starts and our bodies weren’t hurting so much after the first few days either. We got out onto the mountain and the snow was coming in thick and fast and was becoming like a blizzard. It was much colder than the previous days as well, most [...]

Today was Elese’s birthday, and somehow, the birthday fairies had found her the night before and decorated the room with balloons and streamers. How they found her no one will know but she was so glad that they found her. There was not much rest for us though as again we were out on the [...]

We had our first day of snowboarding down and it was back up the mountain again, this time with a bit more confidence. We didn’t have to get up quite so early which gave us a bit of a sleep in to rest our tired and sore bodies. It wasn’t much though before we were [...]

Being up so early and being excited should never go together, but today they did, as we were about to learn how to snowboard. With the excitement though also went some nerves seeing as I had never done anything like it before and was going to slide down a snowy mountain with nothing but what [...]

For once I was leaving for a holiday and it wasn’t some ridiculous hour in the morning that I had to be up to get to the airport. What a luxury it was too. We had the chance to finish packing, making sure we had everything we needed, have some breakfast, and even just sit [...]