Queenstown is awesome and I lived there for a few years after university. I was actually paid to review adventure tourism trips - bad job eh ;-)
Sounds like an awesome job if it meant you got to go out on your own or with mates to muck around in the snow, etc !
I lurv going there. Last time was with numba1son and he managed to bust his wrist within a couple of hours of first ever getting on a snowboard. We didn't realise it was busted though until about a month after we got back to Oz though.
We may have passed one another on the slopes, although we've only done one winter trip since moving to Oz...
Speaking of passing strangers on the slopes, after putting up a youtube of numba1son and I at The Remarkables, I perused a few other clips other folk had listed. One of the them showed a view out of a bus window that looked very familiar to me, as too was the very noise the bus was making as it struggled up the mountain. A little bit further on into the clip, who should I spy in the distance laying on the snow looking sorry for himself ?
yup, numba1son.
It turns out that not only had this Ozzy guy and his girlfriend come up to the Remarkables on the same day on the same bus (and same side of the bus) as numba1son and I, but we had all ended up accidentally filming each other on the snow slopes in the background.
so, what with the way things are in Queenstown during the ski season, I wouldn't at all be surprised if we've shared the same mountain on the same day.
We've prolly had pints at the same Irish Pub too !
... or at least hot-chocolate from the same icecream parlour !
Anyhoo, hopefully lscp, numba1son, his lscp, and I can all get back over there for NEXT season.
[ADIT] Far out Estelle, YOU'RE supposed to sit on the horse, not let the horse sit on you !
Ummm, hopefully you've sought / are getting REAL medical attention ? Without trying to sound too dramatic or scary or make you worry, but you do know that blood clots can be quite considerably less than any kind of good news, yes ?
regarDS