The Definition of

ep.ic |ˈepik|

adjective
of, relating to, or characteristic of an epic or epics : England's national epic poem Beowulf.

• heroic or grand in scale or character : his epic journey around the world | a tragedy of epic proportions.
• the weekend Chris just had.

HAHA. I just spent an insane weekend with ann, joseph, doreen, egene, sarah, aidan, mike, steve, ivy, evie, jane, jen, and matt up in the snow at mt hotham.

oh man it was crazy, and i'm tempted to say it was a much needed break, but i've been having quite a lot of those eh... ahhahaha we were just at frankston last weekend. anyway this trip was awesome!

on wednesday night tim said there were a few empty spots for a snow trip cause chris (willis) and yuli couldn't make it, but it's already been paid for, so they were looking for people to go in their place. after... much thought, ann and i decided to go. we had to give up our relient k tickets! relient k on saturday (how did that go by the way?)! so i sent my lecturer an email explaining my "predicament", and he was most understanding, and so on thursday i managed to finally catch up with him and get an extension for my essay. awesome! so the plan was, we'd follow jason up to the snow on friday afternoon. except on friday morning he calls and says he can't make it on friday, and the earliest he could get up was saturday morning, and by then, there'd be almost no point in going.

so i call ann, and we're just kind of like mehhhhh, no point pushing him, it wouldn't be fair for him to have to drive up on saturday and not get to fully enjoy the snow. it is a 6 hour drive after all. so after being ultra-pumped and super-psyched, we sort of just started to accept the fact that we weren't going, and that we should try and salvage what we can of the weekend. we started planning to watch a movie that night, and thinking how to get our relient k tickets as well... and then tim calls and says there's a train that leaves southern cross station at 6 and arrives at bright at 11.30, and steve could probably pick us up from there.

things appeared to be picking up again, so i called ann, and she's like dunnoooooo, after all did just suffer a huge disappointment. but eventually we figured heck la, lets just go, it'll be an awesome adventure. so she begins packing, i call tim, and then start looking up the train schedule. then tim calls back and confirms that steve is good to pick us up from bright. checking online, i found that it was actually a train ride to seymour plus a bus ride from seymour to bright. so i packed my laptop so we could watch a movie along the 4 and a half hour journey. then i call vline to book tickets for the two of us.

and they were OVERBOOKED. WHAT THE-?!

i believe the technical term for this is "shit". so... i call ann again, and break the news to her, and she's like "whaaaaaat? i'm all packed, i'm standing at the lift! i don't care i'm coming over anyway." haha bless her. i was just about ready to give up at that point if not for her. so i call tim again, and explain to him, and i even searched for flights up to albury, but to no avail. so i decided we'd just march right down to the station and beg them to put us on the train or ask if there are any other lines that go somewhere nearby mt hotham. on the way down, we bump into chris willis at crema, and we dropped in to say thanks and kind of explain the situation.

and then he gave me his car keys O.O

he was like, "you can drive can't you? just take my car up." i don't have a legal driving license for aus unfortunately :( so he started making some calls to see if anyone wanted to drive us up to the snow. at this point ann and i are just like ahh well, if we can't go, we might as well hop on a train anywhere and just stay overnight somewhere. we're all packed after all.

after a long while, chris comes over and says joseph might be keen. that guy is legendary man, he is made of spontaneous win! so jo and doreen pick us up at around 7.30 and we pick up chris' car, get some food from the asian grocery (of course), and head up to mt hotham! and we made it to ray's ski shop just in time before they closed at midnight to hire snow chains and gear. was a really close shave! and then another 2 hour drive to get up the mountain.

saturday morning ivy cooked breakfast, OMG it was awesome! fried carrot cake, chicken congee and yu tiao! so so good. and then we went snowboarding! so much fun! haha the lift stopped at 4, so we went and played with aidan. what a cute kid! stomping on snowmen with aunty ann and uncle chris. and dinner OMG steamboat OMG! i'm hungry again just thinking about it. and then mike took us for a night run. i think we got in at least 10 runs on the slopes that night. night snowboarding is just way too fun.

because getting out of bed the next morning was like rolling around in a pile of rocks. i'm still sore all over, both from bruises and muscle aches. what a workout! we practically snowboarded from 10 in the morning til almost 10 at night. so yeah, if this weekend wasn't EPIC, well, i probably just didn't describe it very well. ahhahahaha.

pics when i manage to steal some.