Term 2 Holidays
These holiday I went to Mount Ruapehu before a snowstorm that trapped campers but more on that later. I should probably start at the beginning. My family and I were just coming from Napier where my mum’s friends lived, to go to the snow. My brother Jesse and I didn’t know where our parents were taking us but we were excited. When we looked out the car's window we noticed the three mountains: Mount Ruapehu, Mt Ngāuruhoe and Mount Tongariro. Since my dad’s car had four wheel drive we could go all the way up the mountain and not take a bus.
At the bottom of Mount Ruapehu there was a very fancy hotel where people could stay in at night but my mum was prepared and booked us in a Motel in a little town called Turangi. We could only go so far up the mountain to a car park. We got all dressed up for the snow. I felt as comfy as a cat by a warm fire. It was nice to be in the snow again. We caught a bus to go up to the resort. We saw heaps of people coming or going from, or to, the white glistening glitter. While mum and I got our sledding tickets, Jesse and dad waited outside. We had a look at where we would be tobogganing and maybe skiing. We were on a tall rocky cliff. When we went to go down the lift we found that there was two lifts but only one was working. Mum and dad told us the rules and then we went to do some tobogganing. The first time I went down I was so slow and I had to push myself with my feet. I looked behind me and I saw my parents shooting down the slope with speed! After a few times down the slope I got the idea of how to control and brake. Since we sled down, we still needed a way up. There were 2 options, 1 what I called the snail because it is sooooooo slow and 2 walk carrying you toboggan up a kind-of steep hill where lots and lots of rocks live. I chose the walk most of the time. If you looked up there were big rock walls.
One time I was going up the walk I didn't know that I was making a ICE ball not a snow ball and I through it at dad. I somehow hit right near his mouth even when his back was facing me. He crouched down on the ice to stop his anger. It started to bleed but he carried on. At the end of the day we left to go to the Motel. We got to go in the motel’s spa. It was SO relaxing after a fun day in a cold mountain. We were lucky to leave the next day because it was predicted to have a snow storm. When we got home we looked at the news and it told us that the snow storm did hit and it trapped 200 and something people. Aren't we glad we escaped.
