Snow day
Sunday, August 20th, 2006

We have had a great day up the slopes on Saturday. Andrea, me, Watson and Andrea (Arnie) stayed at Mike and Gails on Friday night. Early Saturday morning we started the 2 & 1/2 hour journey to Turoa, one of the ski fields on Mt Ruapehu.
Early indications were good, with hire shops on the way forecasting Turoa to be the better of the ski fields that day. When we got closer this was proved not to be the case, with so many cars coming in the other direction all laden with ski equipment we feared the worst… a mountain closure, oh no!
We were pleasantly surprised to find out that although the top slopes were closed due to high winds, the lower part of the mountain was open.