Tuesday, April 18, 2006
innsbruck
so anyway, i've decided to buy my own snowboard. to match my new snowboard jacket. =))) I was happily walking around the other day, and i saw a super pretty jacket on sale!! And it was amazingly cheap for something waterproof and warm and meant for snowboarding! It had sooo many pockets, and it was a *little* too big for me but that was ok. Coz it was a gorgeous color! Haha. And the reason why it was so cheap was coz it was from the kiddies section. Hahahha. :) So convenient right? I can buy so much more here coz I can choose frm the kiddies stuff too!! :) And I saw this really really really pretty board. But the boss told me to wait till next month when the prices will plummet. Hee. Anyway, Innsbruck was sooooo lovely!! Nearly missed my train coz I had to WALK to the dinky train station. It was a public holiday. spance so would have killed me if I didnt turn up la. Hahaha. In fact he got a msg and thought it was me missing my train. Hee. So Innsbruck is this GORGEOUS place thats surrounded by mountains. Every direction you turn you see mountains!! And it's like a quaint little village!! Mommy called me on the first day I was there to check what I was doing, and it was so funny! Coz at the end of the conversation, we realised that I was staying in the same place my mommy and daddy stayed in like, 24 years ago!! On their 3 month backpacking budget honeymoon! Haha. But I think they did the coolest thing la! 3 months budget, and then 2 years ago they went across the same budget route, but stayed in 5star hotels. And they said bothe were super fun. Heh. Budget is cool coz you really meet the coolest people! Like dudes from the UK who teach you how to juggle, dudes from the US who just finished medicine talking complete nonsense, REALLY cute mice chewing up my pretty new caddy, the kid of the owner of the hotel who thinks i should go set up a business coz i can con(vince) pple. whahahah. In the end we moved to another place for the last night la. The mouse was cute. But my bag was more impt. Heh. I guess a budget place that survived for 24 years isnt really a good idea. =p Anyway on to boarding!! The owner of the ski place knew upon looking at me that I was from singapore and I was mixed and had chinese and indian blood. But refused to believe that spance was frm sg coz he kept insisting spance was from china. whahahahahahaha. I liked him. Used to be some famous skier or smth. I dunno. Hugo Nindl. *shrugs* Tried skiing but didn't really like it. Had to switch to my "young punk" snowboard after awhile. Spance of course is too old man coz after half an hr on the snowboard he switched back to skis. Super farnee!! The dude renting out the snowboards kept going "Snowboarding ist scheiße" and when I boarded down to the entrance at the end of the day he walked back in and exclaimed "Good god." to spance. Hee. But I had to use kiddie skies. =( and the snowboard was way to long for me so on the last day i went somewhere else and then boarded like a pro! Whahaha. So thats an excuse for me to get my own equipment. Coz most shops dont have my size!!! Grr. Coz most kids my size already have their own stuff. =p But that first day, on the super long board, when I got more and more ambitious, I went super fast, and saw a bump, and decided to try jumping. Well. Bad idea cos I landed on my wrist. =( Evil spance just laugheD!! But then not-so-evil spance went all the way down the mountain to get me a big glass bottle of mineral water. =) And he fell off the lift coz the bottle was so big! Then he rescued me, but still laughed. :S And called me a drama queen! Bah. Since I wasnt gonna let a lil banged up wrist stop me, I bought proper boarding gloves with guards on BOTH sides of the wrist, and then perservered man!! Haha. With one hand held a lot closer than the other. But wah! Spance was super good la! Could ski like a pro after just one day liao!! We went up the Olympic mountain on the last day by the way. Spance had to force me up coz I was soooo scared since my hand was feeling worse and I didnt want to fall off a cliff coz I couldnt stop. Hahahah. And we were told they closed a bit of the beginner slope so we had to go down the BLACK slope. BLACK. Even more danger than RED. Hahaha. But in the end I went up coz it would be worse if he had to go up alone lor. With skis. And when we got up there it was GORGEOUS!! As in, really gorgeous!! Everything was white. And completely silent. Amazing la! You really feel on top of the world! I was made for mountains as much as I am made for beaches man. Wonder if theres anywhere I can get BOTH. Hmmm. So again, we almost missed our bus, but was ok. Haha. It was worth it man. Even worth the banged up and bruised wrist. Which swelled up more. But spance said it wasnt broken or fractured. And laughed. :S -nyeh-
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