Snowboarding!

Man it's cool! I've been to Snowplanet once but this weekend I managed to get some time at the mountain (Turoa, Ruapehu). Really looking forward to going again, as well as keeping an eye out for some gear (probably second hand - man, Jono's life is getting expensive - just bought some ice skates last week as well :).

Unfortunately, the weather over the weekend was pretty horrible with gales and rain. I'm just thankful that that I had Monday off work when the weather was puuuurfect :) A bit unfortunate for those that didn't...

We also visited the Waioru Army Museum when the weather was crap on Sunday.
I spent a while staring at Upham's VC (Victoria Cross) and Bar...

"For Valour" x 2 - on the left

He was a pretty awesome soldier, from Christchurch too - born to fight and then some. I'd definitely want him on MY team. We also got some of the obligatory tank photos....

Coming home from the mountain on Monday after Snowboarding with Stu, I realised that I had kinda forgotten to keep an eye on the fuel gauge. It got to the point where I was sitting on the "E" line but we were still about 30kms from the next town (Te Kuiti). We ended up popping into a farm on the way to see if they had any spare gas! They didn't, so we had no choice but to keep going, with me driving the most fuel efficiently as I possibly could! Thankfully we made it :)
I wasn't sure how far I could drive after hitting the line but I wasn't in the mood to find out!