We needed someone to dress up as the Coronet Peak mascots, Spike and Shred. I volunteered. Here’s what I looked like. Yes, go ahead and insert owl jokes here. I dressed as a giant Kiwi bird.
My friends and I had a barbecue by the lake front. Everyone brought their own food and drinks and we just hung out under the moonlight. I even played on the playground!
The Winter Games have started here in Queenstown. What an event to have in my own backyard! It’s an elite winter sports competition that brings together the world's best athletes. I even saw Lindsey Vonn the other day. Tons of teams are at Coronet Peak including the U.S. Olympic team. Here's the rail jam they held in town.
My friend, Harriett and I were going to go for a quick shopping trip in town. We ended up buying too many groceries to carry. We figured we would just hitch hike on the side of the road (I assure you it’s safe to do in Queenstown). It was in an unnoticed location so we just continued on walking with our grocery cart realizing after a while that we accidentally, kind of stole it. Oops! For some reason, it was absolutely hilarious to us because people were staring. 
My friends Harriet, Lucy and I went up to Coronet to ski on my day off. The conditions weren’t too good so we decided to just take the first bus home and go have a drink. A nice day off in the sun!
One of my not-so-favorite moments happened last night at work. Part of my job is to assist in the search for missing people. We have a whole list of emergency procedures we have to go through. Usually it’s just kids who lost their parents or friends who can’t find each other. Typically, they end up being at home or at a bar. Last night, after my first missing person search ended, someone else came in to report that they could find their friend and they had searched for almost 2 hours. Keep in mind yesterday we had 65-70 cm. of new snow in the last storm cycle and most lifts were on hold all day because of the conditions. I didn’t end up leaving work until midnight after patrol searched for hours, police were alerted, and a helicopter with thermal imaging finally found him out of bounds. It was so scary and eerie being up at the mountain that late in those conditions. The guy was even able to walk into administration afterwards! It was so insane. I can’t even describe it. I cried along with his friends! We were so happy they found him… ALIVE! Here is some more information... http://infonews.co.nz/news.cfm?id=73129. It was a good ending to a day especially since it started with the staff bus sliding into a ditch.
Now I finally have some days off. I’m too drained from last night to even go skiing, so we’re going to wait until tomorrow. Check out some of my pictures. We got tons of new snow! I’ll send our good snow vibes to Texas since I know y’all need them with those temperatures!
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