Well after Sam's lesson yesterday both of us were eager to get up to the mountain so that she could practice her turns. We headed into town to return the car and I thought that it would be a good idea to hire some skis so that I could come down the mountain and maybe help Sam out a little... Well we were so excited about getting up to the mountain we didn't stop to check out the weather report, or wonder why there wasn't a cue at the station in town, w...

We had all sorts of bits and pieces planned for today so we decided to hire a car to get them all done. We picked the hire car up at 8, loaded all our ski gear and headed up to Coronet Peak for my FIRST EVER SKI LESSON!!!! I was really quite excited (and a bit nervous!) about my lesson - although i've done a bit of skiing before i've never really been taught to parallel turn properly and I really wanted someone to tell me what I should be doing, so hopefully I wo...

Right....I'm going to start by telling you what SHOULD have happened today...and then I'm going to tell you what ACTUALLY happened today!! Ok, the plan was to get up at 7 in time to catch the early bus up to Coronet Peak. Today was the finale of the Winter Festival and we wanted to watch the half-pipe competition which was taking place on Coronet at 1. We thought if we caught the early bus we'd have time to get a good morning's skiing in before we stopped f...

Moving day again!! But at least this was our last moving day in Queenstown... Another early start as we had to pack and be out of the Copthorne by 10. We watched the Germany Argentina game as we packed - went all the way to penalties!!! Wouldn't want a penalty shoot out against the Germans, that's for sure!! By 10:30 we had our cab loaded up and we were off to our new flat! We met Bevan our land lord outside the door as they were doing the finnishing touche...

We decided to treat ourselves this morning as it was our last full day at the Copthorne - we were woken up at 8:45 by room service delivering a whole trolley full of goodies!! We had both ordered a full English breakfast the night before and we had sausages, bacon, hash browns, beans, mushrooms, a cheese omlette...you name it, it was there!!! We also had, toast, cereal, fresh fruit and yoghurt, danish pastries, croissants, english breakfast tea and some chocolate...