Skiing in Tūroa

What’s going on, Internet? This is a later post. It’s been a minute since I’ve been skiing. We left the kids at home with their aunty and headed south to Ohakune. Was made aware before the trip that Ohakune’s main water pipe was recently damaged during an earthquake. Repairs were being made but this weekend the township was without water. Restaurants had to close, hotels and motels had to close and cancel reservations. We wanted to stay at the Powderhorn this trip for two nights, but the Monday night was fully booked so we couldn’t. Ended up working in our favour as they had to cancell all bookings. We ended up in a rental house that was owned and managed by a local couple. No running water, but we were able to flush the toilets with water from the spa pool and was hands etc with bottled water supplied by the council. The view of the mountain from the rental house. Not much was open in town for food but a few of the takeaways were open so we were able to get a decent feed. Weather…