Back from snowboarding!!

I'm back, Sher Mayne's back!! Welcome back sher mayne to your lovely bed! hahaha...

Snowboarding was fun! But painful... on sunday morning, woke up at 4.30am and then left the house and 6am... i couldn't sleep at all on saturday night... was soooo excited... i drove for 4.5 hrs and my brother drove the remainding 0.5 hrs.. haha!! yes, i hv to practice my driving coz i'm gonna get my full licence soon!! ahhh! what a wonder ehh? so young then can get license... just so niceee.. hope i can pass.. hahaha.. newayzzz.... we reach there at 11am. then checked into the lodge... then waited for my brother's friends.. three of them. while waiting, my brother and i go and rent our gears.. i got my snowboard and shoes and my brother did snowblading (something like skiing but it's shorter.. haha!).. my brother's friends came half an hour later than us... ahhh!! that explains it all.. i've got good driving skills that's why reached earlier... hahaha.. jks... anyway, we went up to the moutain at 1 something.. weather is just perfect!!! sunny and nice snow! not cold at all... the thing is, i thought it would be cold so i wore 1 long sleeves, 1 t-shirt and a really thick jacket. 1 jeans and 1 track pants... yes, i was sweating like a pig!! we snowboarded halfway.. everyone snowboarded except my brother.. coz he lost his snowboard the last time so he's afraid he might lose his again so he decided to go for snowblading.. less likely to lose it coz seldom take it out... newayzz.. this time, i went off trail with my brother and his friends... meaning, never follow the trails... hehehehe.. the first time round was great... i didn't lose them.. then second time... haha!! they went too fast and i told them to go ahead, no need to wait for me.. and......... i got lost!!! can't see anyone going pass me and i was so scared... but i knew i wasn't that lost coz i can see the chair lifts above me... so soon, i made my way down to the lower mountain and then found my way back to the bottom... so yea.. that was day 1... fun.. great weather but sweating like a pig... so hot... my mum and dad did went up the mountains but then they went back down to the lodge later coz they were feeling cold and they got nothing to do up there.. they didn't ski or snowboard coz if they fall, can't get up again.. that's what happened the very first time we went to try skiing.. honestly, i can't ski.. so hard and i'm just sticking to snowboarding.. much easier and more fun!!

second day.. woke up at 7... my brother's friends were up already... then we get change and then went up the ski fields again.. mum and dad didn't follow us this time.. they went to wanganui.. they took yuen's car.. my brother's friend car.. hehehe.. weather that day wasn't as good as sunday.. wasn't sunny. instead, was cloudy.. might think that the ski field would be close but still open.. so... we went up!! this time i wore 2 t-shirts and my jacket... scared it will get hot.. but i was wrong... the weather that day was colder than sunday.. so i was freezing... and i forgotten to spray waterproof spray on my track pants so my butt was freezing cold when i sat down on the ice... wasn't really a good snowboarding day... poor visibility.. couldn't really see.. it's like everything is WHITE.. and can't really see where i'm going.. and heck!! they decided to go off trail again.. was kinda scared but then i didn't want to snowboard alone.. so i followed my brother and his friends... yes, if u hvn't notice, i didn't have any friends coz rachel was at the other side of the moutain- Whakapapa. and i'm at Turoa... same mountain tho.. Mt.Ruapehu... bad thing is, can't really see them coz as i said earlier on- poor visibility.. at least this time i told them to wait for me if they can't see me behind... coz i dun wanna get lost this time.. if i get lost, i 100% can't find my way back coz can't see at all... visibility is probably like 10m or less!!! the first round... i lost my brother's friend... luckily my brother was waiting for me... then we found our way down.. second round, yuen, my brother and i went up together.. and this was the major lost!! all of us got lost!!! but luckily we were still together.. i don't remember how many times we had to climb back up small hills and it was tiring... plus the bad weather- windy and blurry.... soon, yuen managed to find the correct path and we had to climb up this pretty big hill.. and it was HARD coz the snow was quite soft so it's easily to slide all the way back down and then have to start all over again.. but i used my snowboard to prevent me frm falling.. we climbed all the way up and then snowboarded down... was fun.. but the hill was quite steep... i saw yuen falling down and i was like :" haha! i'm not gonna fall".. soon enough, i fell down and slided all the way down and did like a few sommersaults... ouch!!! my butt hurts! we looked up and my brother was still up there... soon, he came down... not rolling down like me... he snowbladed down.. he's good... we reached the bottom and we thought we were at the lower mountain.. so yuen headed to the left thinking to go back down...i wanted to follow but i called my brother first as he was heading back up! then he say we are already at alpine meadow... the beginner area!! and i'm like :" huh???" coz usually we will end up and the place above alpine meadow... but soon, i realized we were really at alpine meadows and we realy did came down the really steep hill.... amazing!!! my brother was saying :" lesson learnt, never follow yuen"... hahahaa... the third time up... we got loss again!!!! but wasn't that bad.... coz soon the sky cleared up and we could see quite clearly as to where we were heading... we got down and then kevin and arunim were at the cafe and yuen decided to go there.. my brother and i decided to just go up the lower mountain and snowboard/snowblade our way down.. can't get loss for sure.. later, we also went to the cafe.. and then rested for awhile and then my brother and i went up to the upper mountain one last time and managed to get down as we followed the trail this time... hehehe... we were down till the lower moutain and rested for awhile again coz our knees were hurting.. so we decided to get back to the car.. kevin was already in the car as he got a refund so he only paid half day... by that time, was already 2.30.. was so cold... and then we had to wait for 2 hrs for yuen and arunim to finish snowboarding... waited for soooo long... and was also quite cold in the car.. have to turn on the car engine and warm the car up a few times.. haha!!!

later, we reached the lodge at 4.45... then my mom and dad came at 5pm.. then we went home.. my dad drove home coz my brother and i were sleepy... reached home at 10.30.. was so sleepy.. and body was aching... was so hard to sleep last night.. can barely turn coz my neck was very pain.. right now, i can't really move my neck also.. my knees hurt (hurts when i bend it), my shoulders hurts whenever i move my hands.... my arms hurts and when i try to stretch... my thumb hurts coz i think i sprained it when i fell down... my butt hurts when i sit down coz i fell down so many times... my back hurts when i lie down... my neck hurts when i look left/right/up/down so i can only look forward.... BUT... after all the pains, i'm still not regretting at all for going to this snowboarding trip... was awesome!!!! i'd rather have fun and get myself injured rather than not having fun and not hurting myself because life is all about having fun and doing new stuff!!!!!

phew!! what a long entry... byeeeee!!! btw, if any of u want to go snowboarding nxt time, don't forget to ask me!! and if u are coming to new zealand during winter/spring, i will be bringing u up to the mountains for sure!!!!!!