Snow in June

Well, it's finally started snowing. After three or four days of gorgeous blue skies here in Queenstown, we woke to find the town looking as if it was encapsulated in a snow-globe and shaken vigourously. Ironically, this sudden flurry has prompted them to 'close the mountain', meaning we might not get to go skiing tomorrow. I love the expression 'close the mountain', as if you could close off anything that big. You'd need a pretty big sheet. Although having said that, the snow is so thick that you can't actually see it, so I guess it is closed.

Anyway, Jen and I are having heaps of fun in our cosy campervan, we got a portable DVD player with it so we stocked up on cheap films to keep us occupied in the evening, and we also bought a small selection of travel games. We wanted the classics - Connect 4, Battleships and Scrabble, but went to a low budget discount store to get them so we came away with 'Line Up Four', 'Sea Battle', and 'Form-A-Word'. But hey, they still do the job.

We arrived in Queenstown on Tuesday after a whistle stop tour of the south of New Zealand, right in the nick of time for Queenstowns annual Winter Festival which starts tomorrow with a large firework dispay. As part of the festival on Saturday night there is a Masquerade Ball at one of the big hotels here which Jen and I got tickets for yesterday, and there's a couple of gigs and some stand up comedy going on next week too, so it's all very exciting. And hopefully, we'll get to go skiing tomorrow, weather permitting. I've already fallen on my ass twice today, so it should be interesting. Better double check that travel insurance policy...