Powder To The People – Sinaia

It is said that when you love your job Monday is a great day… I don’t know who the hell said that and I’m sure that guy didn’t do much during his weekend. I like what I do at my job and Mondays are not so bad… sometimes. But today it was like the song goes – just another Manic Monday (except for the kissing Valentino part)

And the reason for this was the grrrrreat fun we had yesterday, Sunday, ’cause that’s our fun day, yee.

Yesterday, on the beautiful day of March the 15th 2009, me and my brother Adrian got up at 6:30 AM and away we drove towards Sinaia, half hoping that the ski lifts will work. And the damn things did! And at around 10, we were looking down, from the top of the mountain and this almost untouched powder. Almost because some guys were there before us. It had snowed the previous day and because of the high winds no ski lift had worked so Sunday morning came in with sunny skies and untouched slopes.

First run was fantastic! With my non existent deep snow skiing skills I spend more time searching for my skis than actually skiing but it was great.

Thanks to the shitty TV stations that see terror everywhere and that preached about the horrible weather conditions and high avalanche risk there were fewer people than usual and most of them were speeding down the slopes with skill and shouting out with joy like maniacs.

Adrian, who’s skiing is a few levels above mine was in his element. While I spend 1 hour at Miorita waiting fir my semi-decent chicken soup he did 3 runs with some guys riding fat Armada skis.

Days like this really make Mondays seem shitty and Sinaia seem the best place on earth. It makes you forget all the bad things about the slopes and people there. But that’s another story :).

This article is part of a series of articles (both in Romanian and English) I call “Sinaia my love”