Our Letters Back Home: Australia Day and Snow Days!

Hi all

Sorry I haven’t updated in a while.

We have been having very strange weather here, they are saying it is the worst winter they have seen, with hot temps, rain and not a whole lot of snow.

Today, however, we woke up to a nice layer of snow on the ground. Me and some friends that I live with had the day off so we went for a walk around the village and hotel as it was too dangerous to drive and go out anywhere like we had planned.

The snow stopped and the sun came out which made for some spectacular photos at the lookout.

Other than our excitement today, we haven’t got much news. The only other event recently was Australia day. We wore Aussie flag tattoos on our face at work and had some drinks afterwards in the lounge including a “ski shot” which is 4 shot glasses attached to an old ski.

We also had a big party at residence (some of the boys have loud speakers and a strobe light) and we listened to the triple J hottest 100 (aired in Australia during the day) - this is the only photo from the night..

Most of us Aussies were given the following day off work and they had a room set up at the hill with snacks and drinks for us, as some of the others went for a snowboard in their Aussie ‘get ups’ (I was too tired and didn’t get up in time) but we did have some wonderful “hot” weather and they made us Aussie Burgers for lunch.

In the afternoon we watched the boys play cricket in the car park which was icy and slippery, but hilarious.

At this point we really have no idea when the season is actually going to finish as we thought it might finish up early due to having no snow, but we are in the process of organising our road trip down the west coast of the states for when it does.

That’s it for now, but here are some more photos..