What can I say comparitive to Mt. Ruapehu, NZ:

• Chamrousse mountain was about 2km tall (and nobody knows about it when I told them since it's a tiny mountain).
• Took 2 buses to get there (Airport-city,city-mountain) and it took bout 2 hours
  
• Almost everyone spoke French
  
• Flight costed only £44
• Ski pass and accomodation for 7 days was £160
• Gear hire for the week was £60
• Chairlifts are all the same as the newest one in NZ (cushion with support for gear)
• Chairlifts are at our doorstep
• View of the mountains from our balcony
• Fresh French Bakery every single day (MMmm, baguette)
  
• Small mountain near the Alps but 3x more runs than Mt. Ruapehu
• Fresh water off the tap!!
• Snowboarded at least 4 hours each day
• Stayed in a chalet for 10 people but with only 8 of us
  
• Tried Racklette (Cheese Fondue)
• Sunshine all week, sunburnt on my face 8)

It was FANTASTIC!!! BEST EVER SKI TRIP IN MY LIFE SO FAR =D

I can't really remember how the week went but all I remember was sleep, eat, snowboard, fall, eat, snowboard till the sun set, fall, eat, play sh*thead or poker, sleep. And while snowboarding, was checking out the other slopes on the mountain. We couldn't finish it.

Oh and my hardest fall wasn't on the slopes. It was at the pool while I was running to get into the Jacuzzi. I slipped on the icy staircase and wacked the top of my left foot on the stairs, had zigzag scratches near my knee and hit my right shin all in one go. Gosh, what a dufus, and as I got into the Jacuzzi, it was freaking cold! Talk about being extra hopeful...

I have uploaded more photos and comments :)

Too lazy to re-write them again, haha. Yes, the frequency of me blogging these days is getting less and less when there is no internet connection at home and when work is keeping me busy. Am happy in a way but nevertheless I will however will succumb back to my world of blogging when there is more time at hand and when I am more or less settled.

Am currently at St. Pancreas over hearing the screeching sounds of the trains coming in (really sounds like someone screaming and this leads to me wondering whether the train has met some ghosts along its pathway underground / ocean to Paris)

In the mean time, enjoy: (click on the pic below)


Hmm, as I began to type abit more, I think I'll share abit more about the weekend...yes, my juices have started flowing muahaha

Thur
There was panic and helplessness when we were about to get on to the train to Birmingham. Me being half dreamy and super dits thought that I collect my tickets at the ticket machine when we arrive Euston station. When I keyed in the code, it only limits up to 8, whereas I had 9. We were about 10mins early before the train left

I was like wtf? We went to the ticket counter and they said that they don't deal with this print out page..more panic, then we went to the info counter...same problem. More panic. So I rung Virgin. She told me that I can't get my tickets anywhere because I opted for it to be printed OnLine. More panic, as there were no internet sources nearby. Nor a printer.

I felt like I was losing it. But my darling D manage to 'beg' the info counter so that we can use their internet and print off our tickets. I was feeling superbly guilty all the way to rush poor D.

But as we got onto the platform, we were lead to another that would take the train past Birmingham and was confusing too. Anyway, all is good as luckily the train was running late (for the first time) and we were 10mins early. PHEW. What a flipping experience.

When we arrived, our friends were already there and drove (yay, car ride) back to his place.

Fri
We explored the market and the mall near the train station and things here are waaaaay cheaper than London. Groceries are like half the price and there is more space and abundance of pretty much everything over here! We had 5 pound lunch deals that were filling and there is a 10pound all you can eat sushi!! Comparing to London, you probably spend twice the amount.


People here are much nicer, there are less of them around too and the weather was sunny too.

Our match didn't start till 5pm so we wondered more about the city. We took a scenic route to the NIA and took some nice photos on the way.

I don't really want to bore you with the match details but it is one of the upclose and personal best matches I have seen in my life. Top seed players, suprise winners and losers and we were there from the quarter finals right through to finals. Our favourites Lee Chong Wei was the only one that manage to get into Finals. I can't believe he is younger than me o.O

The rest of Sat and Sun was pretty much about the games but our friend was kind enough to drive us to the NIA and back, cook and even had sheets for us to sleep on! The both of them even suprise me with a fruit flan bday cake! I was so touched....We were extremly grateful to have some place to stay over in the first place too. And they even made tea eggs when I was mentioning about it briefly over dinner! Aaaawww...


So there you go, my weekend away...it was really enjoyable though short :). Next week: Chamrousse, France!