APEX WITH THE RIPLEY'S!!
Its Christmas break here so the Ripley's are up at the cabin with us which has been fun. I had 5 days off over Christmas but I had a tummy bug on Christmas day which wasn't much fun!!
Here are a few pictures of what we have been up to lately!

Hanging out in the lounge...

Little Shaun, love him to bits he's so cute!!

Supper time! Reon and Evan cooked this one.

All the kids staying in the cabin. (The cabins two bedroom!)

Lillian got Evan and Reon some coke in these Christmas bottles...

Reon and Ev with there 'special' cokes



Skating at the rink!

Me and the kids!

NZ represent! We both came out wearing our NZ tops one morning.

Catching the chair lift up

Reon and I. He is now building the terrain park but when ever we go boarding he seems to find the time to go boarding with us - with hammer in hand and all!

Perfect snowboarding conditions! :0)

Having cuddles with Shaun after boarding.

CHRISTMAS EVE!!!
They have a torch light parade and a bonfire every Christmas eve. Volunteers meet at the bottom of the hill catch the T-bar up together and then ski or board down together carrying lit up torches so all you can see is a cluster of red coming down the hill, it was really pretty!

They lined up with there torches and a groomer that was decorated with lights came through...


Santa and an Elf came out of the groomer...


Fireworks!!

Reon and I.

Santa, Mrs Claus and an elf handed out presents...

Bonfire!

THE LATEST...
We are LOVING it up here at Apex!! Work is going good and the snow has been pretty awesome as well.
Here are a few photos - enjoy!
xo

I took a few photos of the snow in the trees, its so pretty!



Me at the back of the cabin in the 'woods'

Reon brought a 12 string guitar!


Me shoveling a pathway out to the motorhome! Lillian, Lara and the kids are up here for the xmas holidays so Re and I are sleeping in the motorhome for the time being!

Sushi for dinner - yum!

Evan has come to visit us! (He cooked us penne rosa for dinner, it was so good!)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WAYNE!!
Roxy had a party for Wayne last Friday to celebrate his 30th!
Here are a few photos...


Superman opening his presents!

Wayne's siblings minus a few...

Mmm yummy ice cream cake!! (Cute family photo!)

SUMMERLAND, LIGHT UP!

Every year in Summerland they have 'light up' where everyone comes to the main street and theres groups singing, food stalls etc and then at 7.30pm the mayor turns the streets Christmas lights on. Here's some photos of it...

There were so many people!

Mike & Lara's kids sung with there school choir...

The Mayor turning the lights on. She pulled on this thing and then the whole street lite up...

Reon and I with the lights in the background...

Watching the singing...

Pretty lights!

Ahaha this dog had shoes on!! I had to pretend I thought it was so cute and then asked to take a photo of it!

From right to left: Reon, Walter (head worker of BC) Rod, Jean, Albert, Grace and a lovely old lady who I can't remember her name.

We we're very spoiled and taken out for dinner to this delicious Chinese restaurant.

APEX!

We are loving it up at Apex, we've settelled in and are both working. I'm doing ticket sales 3 days of the week and am on reception for 2 days; Reon is on snow making at the moment and is

working 7 days a week until the 23rd on December. Apex has 12 snow making machines so he gets to rip around on a sled moving them around the mountain and making sure the temperature

and water is right to make snow!

Here are a few photos of Apex...

Moving into the cabin...

Ice on the windows!

Our view looking out the front window - taken in the morning before work....

We had a really cold spell when we first moved up! -26 without the wind chill!! When Reon went to work it was -33C but he didn't get a photo of it...

Our little ski hill... I work in the building on the far left!

Me in the snow!

The saddle back lodge was a bed and breakfast that has been there for over 20 years and it burned to the ground the other day. The lady that was sleeping there woke up to smoke at 4am and her and her dog got out safely. The fire fighters worked on it from 4am until 2pm and then they gave up and just let it burn to the ground. It was -26C all day so the water coming out of there hoses was just turning into snow and they where all getting frost bite on there hands so it wasn`t pretty! Here are a few photos....

When the water hit the house it was freezing straight away!

They gave up and just let her burn!

This was taken looking at the back - the flames where huge!!