In 2009, for many reasons that we wont go into here, we took the family decision that it was high time that we had our next big adventure. Its taken a year to sort out but finally, on April 11th 2010, we leave Blighty and family and freinds for a new life in New Zealand. This blog is for us to keep telling our story to those we leave behind and for those we leave behind to know that we miss them and they are in our thoughts.



Wednesday, 15 September 2010

Mount Cook

Seans ankle is much mended now so the monahans decided to get some skiing in before the end of the season and booked a last minute weekend away to Mount Cook. Barney and Jenn wanted to take Jack and Sean there after having such a great camp.

Sean and Jack went skiing on the noddy slopes of Round Hill (budget, buggered ankle and total amateurish nature of the pair of them dictated lift passes to the more adventurous slopes was out of question - Jenn said NO!) and Barney took to his Snowboard again. Jenn went apres ski and drank alot of coffee and read 'Blink' and tried not to laugh out loud when she saw the boys gliding past.

We didn't bother hiring any gear other than skis, boots and boards and Jack decided after a very comical if very desperate uncontrolled slide down the hill arms (with ski poles) waving in panic trying to grab the air to slow him down before crashing over.



Luckily the rain held off until the Sunday. So the Monahans walked the Hooker Valley in the rain and then went and steamed gently over coffee, hot chocolate and cake in the luxurious surrounds of the Hermitage hotel. The money seems to be mainly with the Japanese, Indians and Brits at the moment.

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