Veronica (Sweedish) and Charlie (English) are to be married (or may actually be married now – as this is written *in the future*..oooooooh) this year.. and they had a pre-marriage test ceremony up in Arthur’s Pass – at the Cragieburn centre.
It was a great weekend, featuring a days skiing at Broken River.
Since I had been there last (too long ago) Broken River had retrofitted their cable car so that it could carry people. This saves you a good half-hour of steep uphill walking to get you to the field. Perfect.
It was Maaike’s first time on the infamous rope-tows.
Unfortunately it also happened to be Maaike’s first time getting whiplash. Coincidence – I think not.
The party however was excellent – here’s a picture of the bride and groom to be.
Kiwi’s also go in for fancy dress at the drop of a funnily shaped hat. The theme for this one was Sweedish-English-or-Swinglish. Great fun.
Femke
August 18, 2010 at 8:38 pm
Pfff…the first Dutch on a rope-tow…we might not have mountains, but we live in Europe, so everything else is close and of course we know rope-tows and have used them before!
Patrick
August 19, 2010 at 2:10 pm
Now – do you really have rope tows? Do people wear a harness going up mountains? I wasn’t aware that they were in use in Europe!
Sjoerd
August 26, 2010 at 3:42 am
So you think we hike up the Alpes with skies on our backs? ;)
Patrick
August 26, 2010 at 10:21 am
If you’re hearty you would ;)
Anyway, no, what i’m suggesting is that Europe probably doesn’t have any “nutcracker rope tows” on any major fields. But I could be wrong. Point me to a field that has them?
We have a cable running up a mountain over pulleys. You grab onto the cable (with a leather glove protector else it’ll melt your glove). Then with your other hand you whip a sort of nutcracker over the rope. Then you sit down in your rock climbing harness and get pulled up the hill.
Sound like anything you two have used?
Sjoerd
August 27, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Uhm, I’ve never skied, what do you think?