New York!

Slight delays, slight sickness, 26 hour travelling, and I'm in Ny!

Here's a little update about the ski trip from last week. With my travel time finishing faster than an adequate analogy, I'm getting more and more nostalgic and look back on the fun things that have happened.

When we were in Austria skiing, my brothers and I decided to do some hors-piste and started trekking past the ski lifts, up to the peak of one of the mountains in the area. The long and treacherous (until we found the shortcut) and the view up top was fantastic. Bascially, we'd walk up from the top of the chairlift until we got to the peak of the mountain, at which point we'd break out a celebratory beer or coke, some chocolate and then continue skiing down.

The best part was one of the overhangs of snow that we found at the top. Victor, being the loving brother he is, saw this long drop from one of the icy edges of the peaks and convinced my little bro (thomas) that he should jump it. All the while, Vic knew very well that he wouldn't dare do the jump himself, but what better way to see something funny than to convince younger sibl;ings to risk their lives.

After much ridiculing, Thomas was convinced to go and took off down the mountain, landing the 12ft jump on his pack in a big 'poof' of snow and skiis. It was hilarious. After we saw that the jump was safe and broken bones were minimal, we all took turns jumping off and climbing back to the top, slowly carving out the side of the mountain.

My high point came when I attempted to stun onlookers with a 360 only to have my ski clip the edge of the mountain face as I took off. Completely thrown out of sync, I ended up falling on my head with a girlish scream, before walking back up and trying again

Time to visit this huge city