Forgive us while we back up a bit to bring you a wintry post that we missed from back in January. On Sunday, January 29, we went to Vivaldi Park with the All-Day Club. We were up early and on the bus at 8:30 and left the campus about 15 or 20 minutes later. After a refreshing breakfast of kimbap we snoozed for most of the hour-and-a-half drive. (We would have looked out the windows but the bus was so dirty you couldn't see much of anything out the windows and soon after we started out the windows were all fogged over anyway.) Things were a bit muddled when we got to the ski resort and we stood around for awhile waiting for some people to bring the lift tickets. During that time we got numerous group pictures, but sadly the teacher who took most of the pictures on his iPhone accidentally had them deleted so I guess we'll never get to see those ones. Once we had our lift tickets we quickly rented ski gear and bought some ski gloves, then got our rentals. But by then pretty much everyone else from our group had already left and so we set out alone. We only ran into people from our group a couple times during the day, which was too bad. But we really enjoyed the bright sunshine and blue skies. The snow, although a bit icy, wasn't bad either. All in all, a great day on the slopes!
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| Waiting in the rentals area |
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| View from the top of the mountain |
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| Jonathan ready for a run |
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| Going down |
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| Posing for a picture |
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| Now there's snow, now there's none... |
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| After readjusting his boots |
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| Waiting for the ski lift |
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| We ran into Rudith and Jennifer in the lift line |
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| And they took a picture of us |
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| At the top again |
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| It was a sunny day and we forgot to bring sunglasses... |
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| An eight-seater chair - hugest we've ever seen |
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| The gloves we bought were definitely worth it - our hands would have froze with just our thin cotton gloves |
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| Skiers get ready on the left, snowboarders on the right |
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| View from the other side of the peak |
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| This person had an interesting backpack, which was also wearing a backpack... |
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| Leftover kimbap for an afternoon snack on the trip back to Seoul |
so fun to see these.
ReplyDeletei have not seen you, Ali in a pink jacket for years. looks good.
i love your gloves and mitts.
that one picture with the snow and brown hill was very interesting.
thanks for sharing.
I loved reading about this trip even if it happened awhile back. Sounds like you had a lot of fun. Why did no one wait for yu?
ReplyDeleteI guess they didn't know there were still people renting ski gear so they all hit the slopes.
DeleteLooks quite adventurous!
ReplyDeleteWow! fantastic that they have snow and then don't. Looks like you had a great time. Thanks for sharing!
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