Go All Blacks!

It's all begun! Sure, I was a little uncertain about whether our little country could cope, but all in all, it seems to be going smoothly enough. Opening night was apparantely a bit of a clusterf$%# with people overload throughout the city and on our crappy public transport. But really that was no surprise... not sure why our politicians and planners were... I, myself, completely overloaded on endless buckets of coronas, which in retrospect, is the only way to do it!

My share...

Then I went to support my "other" team play France - I think we gave them a bit of a scare to say the least.

And so nice to see some really decent support for Japan, albeit mostly with the attitude of, "anyone but the French"...

Snow times!

I've been incredibly slack lately with the blog, but it's partly due to a brain research (ski) conference and partly due to just plain old laziness. But it was all for a good cause. The annual conference is always held during peak ski season in Queenstown, for that very reason. And we luckily got some AMAZING days on the mountain. Perfect weather, powdering delicious snow and unbeatable views.

At the top of one of the lifts, they even had an "Ice Bar" which was literally a shelf of snow with drinks and snacks, manned by a lovely guy who was quite possibly stoned or drunk (or most likely both). Turned out to be an absolute lifesaver though after a few runs when our throats were dry and we needed a satisfying Snickers bar :P

To top it all off, I impulsively bought myself a new snowboard after getting snowgear envy over a friend who bought the prettiest set of ski gear. I think I now understand the whole boys and toys craziness...

But look at how pretty it is!!!