This was to be yet another hectic weekend! We had just moved into our lovely apartment, thanks to our friends for their time and hard work! Hell of a work out! This weekend, we are heading to our ski trip at Threadbo! I managed to convince Yishan to drive down 7 hours on a friday night instead of taking an airplane with the lure of massive cost savings.
But before we are to embark on our adventurous road trip, we had to accomplish the following on a friday night:
- Pick up the ski equipment before 530pm
- Drive Joey to the airport
- Pick Lizi at the airport (The Sydney junior secondees have decided to join us on after my impromptu invite while on my interstate work trip)
- Complete our CA quiz for MAA
The race began right after I knocked off from work. Mad rush is the only work to describe it. Joey nearly missed her flight, Lizi waited super long for us to finally pick her up and we completed our quiz at the airport's mai dang dang! By the time we set off, it was about 10pm! I can already see Lizi's amused expression of her Melbourne seniors. Tsk tsk.
So off we went! Lizi and Yish discovered they were JC mates, more gossips were along the way, etc. All was well until we went on the Alpine Highway.....
We were diminishing on fuel, there was a petrol station that was CLOSED, we made a couple of wrong turns. With a time scheduled to meet our Sydney friends, we decided to drive on. Soon, we found ourselves on Threadbo Mountain. I felt as though I had been driving forever along the same road. It was like Hansel and Gratel! :(
Yishan and I were dead worried that we will be stranded with no help! There was no mobile reception, no wireless reception and worse, NO FUEL! When dawn was about to break, we decided to stop at a rest stop where we noticed a tent. Pasted a HELP note on the camper's vehicle and decided to rest till it was daylight.
At 7am, the campers were still snoozing away. It was time to wake them up from their dreamland. I arrowed Yishan and Lizi to do the dirty job, tsk tsk. Of course the campers were not very impressed, and they didn't even offer us help except that the next fuel stop is 15mins away! With endless upslopes, prayer that there would be enough fuel was the sole thing on our minds. As I drove, flashes of Discovery Travel featuring a family who got stranded on the snow Alps and lost their fingers due to frost bites whizzed past my mind. Nothing can describe how freaking scared and worried I was! Even the scenic views of the majestic snow mountain did not interest any of us.
But THANK GOD! Thank God we made it JUST IN TIME before our car ran out of fuel!
Look at the sign of relief on Yishan's face! We were on Mount Threadbo! Decided to just meet our friends on the mountain instead! Skiing and Snow boarding here we come!
Finally, we had the mood to sit down and smell the flowers! What an awesome view! Haha and guess what Lizi said? 'I always thought we would make it!' Hahaha, there really is a very thin line between naiveity and optimism eh? Tsk tsk.
Finally! After a day of falling, standing up, and attempting to look cool on our skis and snowboards, it was time to stuff our stomachs with nice and warm food! The night did not end. A long session of drinking games which resulted in me losing badly continued after dinner before we rested for tomorrow's snow action again!
This was me clad in my discounted Nike ski jacket and pants bought from the warehouse sale. I was getting extremely frustrated with my inability to snowboard properly.
It was so hard trying to get up after falling down! :(
Finally on my feet!
This was the steepest chairlift on the mountain! From what Darren told me, it would lead you to the peak of the Southern hemisphere where there is a nice cafe. Though scared of heights, I decided to SUCK IT IN and take the lift up after extreme frustration from snowboarding! :S
So here I am! With the Sydney gals!
Haha poser shots coming up!
Me and my snow!
Finally a break at the cafe for lunch!
Not taking no for an answer, Darren got me to go snowboarding for one last time before we headed off for Melbourne! This time round, I did much better! At least I fell down only once from the top to the foot!
This was the rest stop where we pissed off the campers! Scary Mary!
This was the crossroad where we had to decide whether to stop. Jindabyne was where we were supposed to meet our friends. 51km away and our fuel tank was E. How is that even possible?
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