We were up really early as in 6AM and that’s 4AM in Singapore! JM was kind enough to drive us to Snowy Mountain which is more than 2 hour drive from his place. The road trip was really fun. The view on our way to the Snowy Mountain is really spectacular although as what JM said, rain in Canberra rarely comes by so you could see the grass were brown colored instead of green. I guess it’s much beautiful if it’s all green. There were a lot of black cows *yum black angus steak!* and sheeps. Although sad to say, there were few road kills that we saw along the way. It’s just sad. Saddest thing is you can’t blame anyone for that. The land is immeasurable. We got so excited *as in really excited* when we saw few parts of the mountain covered with SNOW! It’s just so exciting. After 32 years, now we’ll finally see some snow! Not just the man-made created kind of snow but true snow! Weeeeeee. This is just so huge and exciting for people who’ve lived in tropical countries so pardon our ignorance and excitement. We stopped by at the side upon seeing the river while JM is looking for our location, habiga and I went down and felt the snow. It’s about 10 inches thick gosh! We got lost but made it somehow to Selwyn. I was ecstatic and literally jumping for joy. I don’t care how many times in a second I cough because of the cold, I’m just damned happy to see the snow! We rented s walking boots and a toboggan. JM paid for it all again! The blinding whiteness of the snow is really beautiful. It’s freakingly cold but it’s great! We ride the toboggan, we threw snow balls at each other, we climb the highest peak we can reach and throw some snowballs again. It was sooooooooo much fun! We were there for more than 3 hours and by the time I get back inside to take a pee, I was really shaking with coldness. My nose are almost purple colored, my lips are chapping, I’m sneezing and coughing every chance I get but I’m loving it! We said our goodbyes to the wonderful snow and call it a day by 4PM. We went straight to Woden as suggested by JM so we can have a lovely steak for dinner. Only few kilometers away from the building and we’re almost there when JM’s car suddenly stopped in the middle of the street. Good thing we still made it on the side street. But we have to get out because we don’t know some cars might bumped into us. And it’s freakingly cold and we’re all tired and hungry. We walked about 15 minutes to the building and had a huge delicious steak at the Hogsbreath. I was so scared that some psycho might bumped into us and took everything from us. Luckily nothing like that happens to us. Just the experience of being stucked in the highway. JM managed to call the NRMA for road helped and the guy said that his car’s water pump was broken. Or whatever that is. The NRMA called for a tow to take us all back to JM’s place. While waiting, it was so sad that no one’s stopping by to offer help. Well, at this era I guess, I wouldn’t stopped by too especially if I see that nothing looks like emergency. A police dropped by eventually but offered no help. :( Well at least they stopped by. We made it at home quarter to 12. We’re just lucky to make it at home without losing anything. Hopefully tomorrow, JM’s car can be fixed easily.
Soon as we got settled in, we booked a taxi for tomorrow and checked the schedule of the bus going to Jolimont Centre. Thanks JM for the wonderful snowy experience :) And the lovely steak! Yummmmm!
