White Paradise

(Writing from the living room of the hotel as seen on the left!)
Arrived in Austria yesterday after a 12 hour drive from Den Helder... We drove from 9.30pm til 9.30am right through the night, it was quite a rough ride and it didn't suprise me that i fell asleep for 5 hours after i had unpacked my bags, and called my parents that i had arrived all right. What is the title of this blog-post is actually a misconception of mine, as when we (Me with my good friend and his family) drove into Ramsau (where i am staying) what we saw was not a white, but a rather green paradise. In other words: there was NO snow present around us. This was quite a let down, as we all were hoping for the best snowboarding holiday ever, but i guess that was too much to ask .... or was it..?
Today me and Coen got up quite early (he, suffering from severe jetlag due to his American endouvers) and me, due to him waking me up while getting out of bed, and had a great breakfast. After that, we changed into out snowboarding outfits and got onto a the bus (which we had to wait for about 30 minutes.... EPIC fail) to the Planai. It still wasn't snowing, and we didn't think it would be a very epic snowboarding adventure. But when we were in the lift up to the top, we looked out of the window and all of the sudden we saw that it had started snowing...
We thought: YESSS! THANK GOD IT'S SNOWING AT LAST! WE GET FRESH POWDER.
How wrong could we be: Yes, it was snowing, and Yes there was fresh powder. But there certainly wasn't any scenery that was more than 5 metres  away. We had almost no sight. So we decided to start our day off by doing one run down a nicely freshly powdered slope, and then go to the legendary Onkel Willi's Hutte, the only place on the Planai with Chicken Wings!
This was of course A-MA-ZING, as always, and we stuffed and enjoyed ourselves thoroughly! Was defenitely the highlight of the day. Also the BEER! OK, i've had a lot of good beers, but bloody hell, if you EVER go to Austria, doesn't matter where, GET Wieniger Hefe Weissbier. This is honestly the most tasty beer i can think of right now! We both had a good pint of that, which turned our lunch into a heavenly feast! The look on Coen's face says enough ;)



Although the weather today was pretty horrible, and it wasn't optimal for snowboarding, i did enjoy it as a first taste of the time to come! Hopefully it will keep snowing as much as it is doing now (where you can barely see the other side of the street) and we will have amazing powder packed slopes tomorrow :D!
Tonight were going out to dinner with everybody from the hotel, should be fun!
I'll update as soon as possible again!