Ohakune

Last week, I arranged to meet some friends in Chow! in town for a drink (it's a cool little place where you get 2 for 1 cocktails on Wednesday) and the conversation went on to the ski weekend some were planning. I was invited to join them and duly accepted, ads I didn't have plans for that weekend.

So 2 days later, we set off for Ohakune, a very little town on Mount Ruapehu, which has the only commercial ski pistes of the North Island.
As it was, the weather was dreadful, the slopes were closed for the 2 days and it was so windy, foggy, cloudy that I didn't see the mountain at all, even when I went on it to walk on the snow for a bit!

However, I hadn't gone there to hit the slopes (one previous exeprience, 4 years before , not fussed to try again, especially just for a weekend) so I really enjoyed bumming around the lodge, seeing a waterfall, eating lots of lovely food with lots of friends and friends' friends (there were at least 12 of us). It was lovely to get away and go to a new place. I hadn't seen Mount Ruapehu up close before (still haven't), but at least I was there!
On the sunday, a friend and I went for a massage and sauna. It was lovely at the time, but an hour after getting back from the massage, I started hurting a lot around my neck, shoulder and arm, where the guy had said he could feel some tension... he really triggered a big reaction!

But that isn't the end of it...
Yesterday, about a week later, I was resting at home, nursing my second cold in a row, when I made a wrong movement, I think, and got all blocked again!
It hurt a lot, I couldn't move properly, had horrible visions of being paralysed the next day etc!
I didn't sleep at all, what with being unable to lie comfortably, being worried and having to blow my nose every 5 seconds....
so no school for me today, nor tomorrow... a lot of people at work are under the weather at the moment. I have to say, I have rarely felt that bad for that long before! I guess being back into teaching and being around lots of germ-ridden kids doesn't help, whereas I had enjoyed a disease-free streak as a nanny! oh well.
I can't wait to be better though, it's no fun feeling weak and tired constantly.

Enough moaning, this was meant to be about my lovely weekend at the mountain! there, finishing on a positive note!