Skiing in Australia!

We packed up the two cars and headed for the slopes with our skis rattling around in the back. We stayed in Jindabyne a village on a large lake with many bars and ski hire
shops but below the snowline and about 20 minutes to the resorts of Thredbo and Perisher Blue.

As the Friday was 4th July we had to celebrate Independance day for the Americans in our group and much fun was had with sparklers and 'bees'.

We managed to get up early (ish) on the Sat ready for a full day of skiing, so after brekkie we headed to Perisher, bought our lift passes and we were off! Although not many runs were open there was enough of the white stuff to have fun in the main valley, the chair lifts gave us some good views of Snow gums.

After lunch we headed for Blue Cow via the Ski tube (a clever under the mountain railway) and some really good runs.

A good day with not too many injuries only aching legs and the odd bruise.

As we returned to Jindabyne we dropped of some of the boys to watch the rugby at the Pub (NZ v SA) the rest of us joined then later.

Sunday turned out rainy and as we stood in the car park in Thredbo we decided that it was probably not worth it, so we did a tour of the valley and saw an Emu instead the slopes are near enough that we could come back for the day.

We saw the sign......Voila!