During winter in July 2009, I went to the Snowy Mountains with Mum, Dad, and Om Arnold, dad’s colleague at Satya Wacana who studied at Univ. of Sydney. We went to Perisher Blue, one of the tourist destinations at snowy mountains. It was the first time I visited it, the first time to see snow. We went there by taking a bus, followed a tour program from Sydney. I was very excited to get there. It had been long I wanted to see and play with snow for the first time in my life.
Our trip to snowy mountains was in the evening. We went first to om Arnold’s place nearby the University of Sydney and waited there before we went to the meeting point of the tour-bus. The people joined the trip gathered in front of Rydges Hotel in the city. The bus left at 11.45, via Kingsford to pick up other passengers there. I slept during the trip, but that was not a good sleep because I was too excited to reach Perisher Blue as soon as possible.
Early in the morning we arrived at a small town named Cooma to hire skiing equipments. The bus also provided hot chocolate and noodle for breakfast. I was assisted by mum and dad to choose my sky, a booth, and winter cloothing. Dad also hired a toobogan so he can also sled down the hill. Om Arnold hired one as well.
After awhile, the bus went up to the enter the Mount Kocziozko National Park where we can do skiing. I’d never learned skiing, but I wanted. We arrived at Smiggins, the place where the bus was going to be parked, but it went first to Perisher Blue. After arrived at the parking place, we went down. We changed our clothes with the winter cloothes and took on the booths. “Well, I am ready for skiing now!”
We decied to go to Perisher Blue first, took a shuttle-bus serves for Smiggins – Perisher Blue. Wow, it was so beautiful. I liked to see the snowy mountains. There were already several people skiing and snowboarding. Dan, Mum, and om Arnold helped me to do skiing. Dan, pushed me to a higher place then let me sledding down. I did it a few times. Wow, it’s amazing. We took some pictures there of course. Then we moved to another side of the hill to do tooboganing. We all tried tooboganing. Several times I did it. It’s also amazing, sledding down the hill. I love it.
After that, we went to had another breakfast. It’s so cold and it’s easy to be hungry. I ate hot potato chips and drank hot chocolate.
We then returned to Smiggins for another session of skiing or tooboganing. But we first just sat down in the snow, made a small snowman and took pictures. Mom was tired, she decided to take a rest at the only restaurant there. There are seats outside the restaurant so she could see people skiing and snowboarding. Me, Daddy, and om Arnold walked a bit to another side of the mountain so we could sledding down the hill with our toobogans. This hill is even higher than at Perisher Blue. We went on and on tooboganing. I was so tired, but it’s so great.
We went back to the restaurant and found Mum sitting at a seat outside, very sleepy. Thus we got inside the restaurant to have a drink and buy some food. After had our lunch we changed our clothes then went back to the bus. Wow, I felt so tired but of course I was happy. It was a wonderful experience.
Our bus returned to Sydney right at 2pm, as the tour-guide said. I was sleeping during the trip, I thought all people sleeping. I just woke up because we had our dinner at a McDonald restaurant, then slept again. I really woke up when we nearly arrived the city. We set down the bus and thanked the tour-guide. We then went to QVB to take a bus. It was about 10pm and I was very, very tired.
We arrived at home at about 10.30, took a bath and then slept. In sleep, I was dreaming of skiing again. What a nice experience. Want to do it more another time.
