Last week in Wanaka

Again its been a while since my last post. Nothing much has happened, just haven't had time to do it. Too stoked about riding or just being here! And I still don't have my own laptop or internet at house, so it makes things even harder to deal with. But I'm trying to post new posts as often as I can.

Now I have been six days without riding and gonna have at least few more. I hurt my shoulder while riding last Sunday, so now I have just seen physio three times and just chill with friends. It kinda sucks, we are gonna have snow anymore for a week or less if the weather is not good for us!! I want to go back there, shred and have fun with friends! And do some filming too before season ends!

We are going to give our house away at 8th of October. So we are here only week anymore! Sad face. Then the whole country waits for us to travel around. I would like to go to some farm and spent about a week there with sheep and other animals.

But no big plans yet, see what NZ is willing to give us!

Here is some pics you to see what it's like to live in New Zealand !

Lake Hawea

NZ has around 31 million sheep, there is 8 sheep for each human.

Camouflage cow

Kiss the fish

Family goes to holiday

Last week and half we haven't had the best weather here in Wanaka. It has been super windy, raining, storming and we even got thunderstorm at one night. Maybe three weeks ago i slept thru an earthquake. But luckily in last four days we have got some fresh snow, and it did save our season!
Now i hope we can ride almost a month more, then we take our car and leave Wanaka for a road trip around both islands. It's gonna be sick! Two months around a one of the most beautiful country in the world, I can't ask anything more.

Because of the weather we haven't have been able to go riding that much. We started to feel bit bored just being in Wanaka at our down days, so we decided to do family holiday to west coast. Our plans changed while the road to Haast Pass was closed. So we decided to go to east coast instead of west coast. We drove bit up to Omarama and then down to coast to thru Oamaru to Dunedin.

Poor Jake and wet shoes on first night of family holiday.

Moeraki Boulder rocks

In Dunedin three of six of us wanted to go to hostel to stay the night. Me, Jake and Bobby stayed in the beach sleeping in a car. At night we made a campfire to the beach, but it started to rain heavily so we
needed to stay inside the car whole night. In the morning we did campfire again, grilled some meat and marshmallows for breakfast.

Marshmallow breakfast

After the breakfast went to get Alice, Meri and Jules from the hostel and went to find a beach to hang around. We did find St Kilda's beach, which was beautiful. There we went to swim in South Pacific Ocean! That day was the first warm day we have had here this far. We could easily hang out just with our bikinis on in the beach, but the water was freezing cold!
Later on we continued our trip back to Wanaka thru Milton, Alexandra and Cromwell.

 St Kilda's Beach

Bobby, me and Meri did some yoga at the beach

The South Pacific Ocean was cold ! 

Few down days more, but yesterday was one of the best days!  Went to ride to Treble Cone some fresh pow, it was blue bird and i burned my face again! After riding day I did some homemade hamburgers for dinner for girls. It was better than Red Star!! Later on went to walk by the lake Wanaka under the stars. I did see three shooting stars, so i could do some wishes. Yesterday was a good day!

Down days

Barbababa travelling

My 2 year old niece gave me Barbababa plush toy to travel with me, when i left here. I promised to take pictures with the toy on, so she can see where her toy have been travelled. And i have to give the toy back to her when i go back home. So now on you can find that toy some of my pictures.

Saturday we went to Queenstown to see rail jams. Unlucky it was raining all the time when we were at rail jams. So we decided to leave before finals even started. First we went to eat some noodles, and after rail jams we went to one bar which has fireplace. To dry our clothes and to warm up.

Tuesday was my first day of riding after last thursday crash. Before that i have just been chilling and absolutely doing nothing.  On monday i went to the lake to take some pictures and found few pretty beautiful things from there. Hope now on i can ride as i have being riding here, my back feels already lot better than few days ago!

My seafood noodles, yummy!! 

In QT there were Gay ski week going on. 

Me and Meri at the rail jams, rainiiiing!

Stone hearts 

Views to town

Can't say what this bird was but it was huge!

Days off

Yesterday I crashed doing bs boardslide to down rail. Landed on my lower back and it's bit sore now. So i need to got few days off riding and figure out something else to do. Maybe gonna go tomorrow to Queenstown to watch Parklife invitational Rail jam. Few of my friends are riding there.

I went to see the physio today. It's just brused and sore. Pyhsio couln'd do so much about it yet because it is so fresh injury. But i will see her again in few days and maybe going back riding on sunday or monday. Depends how im feeling.

I was lucky that i didn't crash on to the rail. What almost happened. One of my friend here broke his back few weeks ago falling on his lower back, almost like the same i did yesterday. After the crash i was bit scared what happened. But luckily it wasn't nothing that bad.
Now i got time to do something else here in Wanaka. Hope i will get something nice to do!
Maybe doing some proper dinner some night for us girls and our neighbor skier guys. Night with wine, good food and chilling would be nice.

Life I just have dreamed about

We have been in NZ over a month already! I ride almost every day in Snow Park, but would like to try Cardrona and The Remarkables too. Those are nearby resorts here. I have done frisbee golf, tennis and some running beside riding too. 

Yesterday we had a dinner with our neighbor skier guys. Pasta carbonara, some wine and horror movie. One of them made me try to do one of the stupidest thing ever. Grab your left foot toes with your right hand, and jump over it. First time I almost did it. But i didn't keep that grab whole time. 

Second time i kept the crab but i didn't made the jump, so it was the best face plant ever!

I landed on my foot and hit my nose to the floor. Nose is okay but foot is bit sore, so i had day off riding today. Im going to see physio tomorrow, it's free here in Snow Park. Witch is super good!

Few finnish guys stayed at our place for a while. Our living room looked like that when they took their last stuff with them and we weren't at home.

I lined up all that wood by my self, there was 2 cubic meters of wood!

One of those blue birdies!

 On our way back down from the mountain, blue bird above the clouds!

Burton High Fives and some sheep making the real NZ feeling?!

 @ Orla's 26th birthday, moustache partyyyyyy!  

It feels so good just being here. Not working at all, just riding. Chilling here in Wanaka and enjoying my life. This is definitely one the best choices i have ever done.
Riding feels good and i have even started to like ride rails! Im not so scared of them anymore. And have learned new tricks too! Would be nice to do some filming, maybe next week!

Wanaka pics

Wanaka is super pretty!

You never get these kind of views in Finland from your couch!

This was ours first dive up the mountain to Snow Park, didn't seem that promising so far.. 

But this was the truth, Snow Park NZ !

One of the first lifts up

  We went to this beutiful, quiet bay for fishing

  But they broke the thing you fish with, so we didn't get any fish

And of course my first Fergburger, it's huge!!

Finally i got time to upload these pictures from our last two weeks in Wanaka. I should remember to take my camera with me more often, so i could share these awesome moments with you. 

Bros down

Tulikin pari mutkaa matkaan tan blogin paivitysten kanssa. Meitsil ei oo konetta, taal ei oo missaan (paitsi parkil) ilmasta nettii ja netit taal on ihan saakelin kalliita ja basoi. No nyt tulee sentaan paivitys, kuvii yritan paasta latailee sit myohemmin ku paasen oikeen koneen kans pelleilee.

Paastiin perille Wanakaan jo kaks ja puol viikkoa sitten torstaina. Heti perjantaina saatiin vuokrattua superhyva kamppa ja kaytiin myos ekaa kertaa katsastamassa Snow Park. Nyt ollaan laskettu taal pari viikkoa ja tatsi alkaa pikkuhiljaa palautumaan. On ihan huikeeta olla takas lumilla!

Kampat taalla on hurjasti kylmempia kun kotosuomessa, oli vahan totuttelua menna nukkumaan pitkat housut, laskusukat, collarit, t-paita ja villapaita paalla nukkumaan. Paalla lisaksi villapeitto seka untuvapeitto, mut kaikkeen tahan alkaa jo pikkuhiljaa nukkumaan. Meilla ei oo siis minkaanlaista keskuslammitysta, eristetta ei oo nimekskaan ja kaytossa on vaan periaatteessa takka mika lammittaa olkkaria ja keittiota. Meil on myos yks sahkol toimiva patteri, mut se ei oikeen lammita ja vie ihan hirveesti sahkoo. Ja sahko taal on tosi kallista viel kaiken lisaks. Joten pitaa vaan oppii pukee hyvin palle sisallakin.

Wanaka on superkaunis. Meil on iso jarvi ja lumihuippuiset vuoret ymparilla. Pieni kaupunki, jossa on paikallisten lisaks paljon laskujengia asumassa talvikauden. Ihmiset on tosi sosiaalisia ja kavereita saa helposti hankittua. Jengi taal muutenkin on tosirentoo ja porukkaa on aika jokapuolelta palloo. Fiilis kaupungissaki on just jees!
Viel ei olla oikeen reissailtu paljoo, ollaan vaa oltu niin kiinni tos laskemisessa.
Snow Park on super, vaik siel pikkuhiljaa alkaa olee jo aika paljon porukkaa laskemas. Sielt loytyy reili ja pressipuoli, mis on iisisti yli 20 eri setuppii ja muutamii hyndii. Sit on viel triple line mis on isot hyndat. Quarterpipe ja lisaks viel superpipe tulossa!

Koti-ikava ei oo iskeny viela, oon ollu niin fiiliksissani tasta kaikesta. Eika tylsaakaan oo kerenny viel tulla, kaikki on loppupeleis sen verran uutta.
Yritan paasta kirjottelee lisaa useemmin taas tast eteenpain ja lisailla seuraaval kerral kuviakin!
Ajatukset ei pysy nyt ihan kasassa, et toivottavasti seuraava postaus on vahan fiksumpi.
Mut tata en vaihtais nyt mihinkaan!