Ski Vacation: Day Two

Happy New Year! We celebrated the new year at the top of the mountain in a little restaurant. Ski lifts up in the middle of the night with clear skies and brilliant stars, it was wonderful! The four of us brought along two British engineers we met skiing, Luc and Sam, so we had quite a group for the celebration. One fellow was tossing around a flaming bottle and everyone was dancing. We saw fireworks exploding somewhere far below us at midnight.



Luc and Sam, carbon fiber yacht builders from the UK.



Jess, showing us how they dance on the asian side.



Elsa and Omral, posing as comes naturally to them.



Happy New Year from a crazy little freezing club on the top of a mountain!

The next day, or later that same day if you want to split hairs, we went back out to the slopes for our final go at Olulag Mountain. Omral was up and out very early, this was his first time skiing, and he has fallen in love with the sport. Jess, Elsa, and I followed later. The weather was perfect again, though towards the end of the afternoon when we were packing up it started to snow again. But that's alright since we were on our way back home.



Here's Jess and Elsa, looking cute as can be, about to hit the slopes in the morning.



Snow clouds beginning to roll in on the ski basin.



I snapped this out the window on our drive back, this is well below the serious snow after the trees cleared enough for a shot of the sunset. This trip was so fun, we all had a blast, and I think we are going to return there later this month. We were talking about it at least.

Enjoy 2006!