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When I was about 16 I toured the North Island of New Zealand playing first trumpet in a highschool concert band.
Being from Caloundra in Queensland near Brisbane, none of us had ever seen the snow. Winter for us rarely dropped below 10 degrees. Celsius.
Even tho this tour was closer to spring than winter, when we got near the bottom of the north island we played in a little hamlet around a spectacular inland lake called Lake Taupo. We begged and pleaded and generally made a pain of ourselves until the teachers supervising the trip agreed to get our tour bus to take us to the mountains a few hours south which had had a very modest snowfall in recent days.
So we travelled nearly three hours there, excited as if it were Christmas.
As we got off the bus our teachers announced that we'd have just ten minutes to soak it all up before we had to hop back on the bus.
The reason?
Australia was playing the All Blacks (seriously, check out the videos when you click on the link at the top of the page. It's a traditional dance called "The Haka" they do at the start of every game.) and our teachers wanted to get back to the hotel to catch the match.
So we had but ten mintues in the snow because of a football match.
Fifteen years later and I'm still bitter, can you tell?
Anyway, it's my mother's Birthday, my sister lives in Jindabyne in the Snowy Mountains and we're all going for her birthday.
So for the first time in my life (sort of), I get to see the snow - for real!!
(Plus I've already put my Ogame account in vacation mode and it feels great!)
Yay me!!
Catch you soon, Hatrack!
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Snow is a glorious thing when you don't have to shovel it. Or drive in it. Alongside other drivers who have no idea how to drive in it.
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Enjoy the snow, and don't get frostbite, eh?
