Spring??

Tuesday was officially the first day of spring. However, with the warmest, wettest August on record, we felt like we've already had spring for a month here. It was colder all round in Autumn than it was in winter this year!

Anyway, Spring arrived properly...... and so did winter, again!

Here are a couple of photos taken by Greg this morning from our balcony once the skies had cleared. It was a beautiful day today - blue skies, fresh powder on the mountain, and work committments that neither of us could re-schedule... annoying!

The first photo is a close up of the Gondola and Ben Lomond. We like the snow in the trees the best! You may also be able to pick out the gondola building - like a little island in the middle of the snow covered clearing.

And a wider shot, showing Bowen Peak on the right.

It snowed to lake level for pretty much all of Wednesday, being Andrea's birthday (she was pretty impressed with the 'present' from Queenstown). We went out for dinner to a place called 'Prime' on the waterfront and sat at a window seat watching the snow lightly fall under the lights outside. Very pretty!