Skiing

On Thursday the 15th of October 2015 we went to skiing on Mount Ruapehu. We had to get up at 5.30 to get to the Manning's house where we loaded into the car ready for the trip to Turoa. When we got there we parked the car and headed straight for the building where we got our helmets, boots, skis and poles. Then we headed for the ski field. It took me a while to get used to the skis but when iId gone for one run on the beginners part I pretty much had it sussed and then we had the lessons with our instructor James and he said that I was really good at turning and stopping and then when the lesson was over I played around on the beginners slope. But then Mrs Cuming gave me an all mountain pass and I went up with Blair and Sarah and Kesty. It wasn't mucking around because you had to do big turns and lean forward or you would go to fast and crash and to get up you had to go on the chair lift which went very high. On the last corner I bailed because I turned too hard and fell in a hole. When I got down I was very thirsty so I filled up my drink bottle at the cafe.
After the mountain the beginners slope was boring until some of the ice had turned into sleet. I went charging through that and got a little bit wet. Half an hour later the ski field was closing in 5 minutes so we took all of our ski gear off and headed for home. But we stopped at Taihape to have dinner at Mcdonalds. After that we found two people stuck at the river in Apiti so we took them to their house where their friends towed them out and then Kesty dropped us off at our house. My goal was to go down the mountain ... I achieved it ... and the weather... very good. Next year my goal is to not crash on the mountain.