Showing posts with label ski. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ski. Show all posts

Wednesday, 16 November 2011

And then it was 12 months

No we haven't time warped forward a few months. This is my 12 months. My anniversary.

12 months ago today I arrived in this little country town called Narromine. A complete city girl and beach girl to a tiny little country town... What the? You weren't allowed to mention the beach to me, this would cause me to tear up (I'm not even joking), and my mission was to find or start a DF, Dance Floor, one of my favourite places to be.

So what has happened in the last year?
I started my business
I've made a heap of new friends
I wormed my way into a family, hello Brennans
I moved out
I met a boy
I've flown back to Perth 3 times and spent more weeks there than planned
I lost my Dad
I missed my family
I missed my friends
I took lots of photos
I've had an amazing time

I think I might stay.

My year in pictures



























Can you see the progression?

I wouldn't have this life any other way.

Luv The Accidental Country Girl xoxo












Tuesday, 1 November 2011

The perfect weekend (besides the suspected broken rib...)

I'm an active kind of girl, I'm an outdoorsy kind of girl so being with a farmer and living in the country really kind of suits.

I mentioned that last weekend I was skiing at the dam, well I went one step further this weekend I even camped at the dam (this time it was the big dam).

I have to work until Saturday afternoons and got back into my town at 1pm. Car packed as tightly as it could go and with the inclusion of one cousin we were off. My farmer is a lil bit older than me which means a lot of his mates have children. These were kind of my friend, I mentioned before my group is the young mums, and the males were his friends so it works. I don't have a problem with children at all in fact I absolutely love them but in no way am I ready to have my own yet. I'm not even 30 yet. So 4 families, 1 couple and 2 cousins set out for the camping trip.

It makes me laugh that I'm the city girl but I have been camping numerous times. Obviously we had to buy a new tent because I wasn't really going to cart one over from WA. The funniest part was that most of these country kids and families also had the brand new tents. These guys have boats, ski's, fishing gear, biscuits, wake boards but no tents. Being the last to arrive we were greeted with the fact it had taken most of the families a couple of hours to get there tents going. We have a simple 3 man dome tent easy peasy.

I open the tent and go crazy. Farmer boy grabs the instructions, instructions? I call them destructions. Anyways so he is reading away and I'm just putting this tent together next thing you know? It's done. Keep reading those instructions Gol, hehe. He was good for hammering in the pegs though, credit where credit is due. City girl 1, Farmer boy 0.

In reality I love camping. I don't know what it is about a small sheet of fabric between you and the outside world but I love it, and it's not too expensive.



Killing a spider, love it.


The suspected broken rib...
Gol and I went for a ski at the same time behind the boat (vomit I know), he was trying to talk to me, I was telling him 'Don't talk to me,' seriously I learn last weekend, do you really think I'm up for a chat while trying to stay above the water. Well Mr Professional thought it was great splashing me, zooming around the boat then when he was done, oh he just let go and sailed into the water. Me on the other hand had no warning, the boat slowed down to avoid my rope getting caught up in his rope and all I could do was plough into the water heavy and hard. So I'm not sure if it's broken but push ups and crunches are impossible for me at the moment, my ribs on each side of the cage feel different but in reality I have never actually compared them before so who knows?

Well I guess I'll let you know when I do.


In better times, hehe.


What a view?


It was still the perfect weekend. Off to the dam this weekend too (fishing this time, I heard it's safer).

Until next time,
Kel

Wednesday, 26 October 2011

It's official, I'm a country kid

It all started at the start of the year. I was talking to my bestie who lives in WA. She asked me what I was getting up to that day, 'oh I'm going yabbying at a friends dam.' 'Of course you are, you country kid.' I responded with 'You'll know I'm a country kid when I go skiing at the dam.'

So the weekend just past I was initiated into the Country Kid Club. I was skiing at the dam. Starting off with my double ski's with the bar across (what most kids learn with) I got up straight away. I was so proud of myself, considering I had no idea what I was actually doing. It was at that point when I realised I had no idea that I came crashing off. Didn't hurt that bad, win win. Off I went again. This time I made it 4 laps around the res. Rather chuffed indeed. My farmer was proud too then advised that I'm a natural athlete so of course I got it. Hehe.


I'm up!!


Not quite looking like this pro


I'm sure I'll get there soon enough. They took my bar away from me but I still managed to get up. I even tried 1 Ski. Next time maybe, I thought I had been dumped by a wave and was going to drown!!

Until next time,

Kel

What is your perfect weekend?