Det Stora Äventuret

It´s been a big weekend. Åre is hosting the Alpine Skiing World Cup which means the town is buzzing. The ski school was roped into helping out on the course which means I had to vest up and get in there with the rest of them. Our job was to follow the racers down the course to clean the track by ploughing away the excess snow. You don´t really realise how steep and icy the race tracks are when you see it on tv but upon closer inspection I found that a few sections were pretty damn scary to be honest. It was quite the experience getting in there amongst it.

After we´d finished up for the afternoon and the last of the racers had done their thing we met up with some others from our place for a ´Restaurang Race´. Basically it´s a Swedish pub crawl on skis. Awesome fun. At one of the bars the manager came out and counted how many people we were and then walked away again. We were a little confused: he then came back with a briefcase and pushed a button on the side. A little nozzel popped out and before we knew it we had a round of whiskey shots put out in front of us. What a champion.

In other snow news: I got some bad news the other day. My level 3 course next month has been cancelled. I was the only one to sign up so they couldn´t justify running it. Damn.

The big news? I bought a car!! It´s a little orange VW Golf and it´s awesome. All the Swedes are jealous and think it´s a wicked car. Whereas there have been a lot of hater comments from the Aussies. What´s all that about? Just look at it. It´s awesome! I need to come up with a name for it- It´s going to be hard to top Baby 7 and I don´t really like the licence POH 123. I may as well call it Whinnie because of that and the colour but that´s just queer. So it´s time to seriously plan my trip around europe. Roadtrip Bitches. Time to bust out the maps and look forward to Det Stora Äventuret!