Birthdays, Comps, and fun times in NZ!!!

Day of Semi-Finals at the New Zealand Open at Cardrona

So a lot of stuff has been going on lately and we needed to finally update the blog. With the weather being bad all week, we have sometime to get some things done. The last 3 days the mountain has been shut. It's not bad timing with my shoulder being a little sore from getting the Winter Games ready at Remarkables. If you want to check out more snowboard stuff just check my snowboard blog -- jrehrer.blogspot.com Sasha has been working like 50 hours a week and snowboarding has been full on, with Terrain Park work adding to chaos. Things should calm down with only 2 smaller slopestyles left at Remarks and no big events left. They just added another person to work at the Black Sheep where Sasha works so we will have more time to take photos and hang out.



This is me and Nick at the top of the course. It was also
Nick's birthday. We ended up going to Semi-Finals and
not making it through. We watched the Finals and it
turned into some video games stuff and snowboarding
stepped up 2 notches. It was super fun to be apart of.


That night we went out to Japanese Restuarant for Nick's
birthday. Him blowing out the candles.


Sasha enjoying some Sushi. It was really good.



Sasha, Me, Lynn who got cut off, Nick, Kate his sister,
Amy-Rose his girlfriend, Browner, Jake, and Karl.


The weekend before the open we had the Parklife Invitational and it was a lot of work. 3 full days of hard work of setting up and tearing it down only after having a 2 hour session on it. Needless to say it was super fun and the ledge, the flat down bar, and the doulbe barrel were set up really good. There were about 12,000 people who showed up.

Half Cab 50-50 in back one out

Sasha and her friend Jessy went out to Cardrona for a day and took photos on a gorgeous day. They stopped on the way back at the top of the Crown Range and the Cadrona Hotel.

Sasha during some sweet turns



Jessy at the top of the Crown Range


Some tree they must of really liked.



I can't seem to move some photos around and seem to
just delete them if I try. Switch front board at the
Invitational.


Jessy and Sasha at the rail jam


I started work at 7 in the morning and ended at 12 at
night. (I also started the next day at 6) I rode in it as well
and had a blast. I am seen here salting the landing so the
snow stays there and doesn't melt.

Sasha and I went out to dinner to Flame for free since Ben Wah hooked it up with a Gift Certificate. It was super fun and delicious. Sasha doesn't want to eat meat as of late except ribs. As you can see she was going hard that night. I would have liked more dipping sauce though and it was different being South African style sauce and food. I enjoyed the whole meal with some dessert as well. Maybe we'll check them on next time because as of now the photos only go to the top and I can't get them down here. So I hope you enjoy this post. Man I can't believe how long this takes. It takes a lot effort to do these things. You wifes are amazing. So leave a little love so I don't feel like I'm typing to ourselves.