31 December - New Years EVE!

Seasonaire — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:34:29 +0000

So a little bit of catching up is required! I’ll see what I can remember, took James for some more skiing, and working on the old linked parallel turns. Met some cute sweedish girls on the lift and got chatting with them, and laughing at everyone falling over (great way to chat up), so hopefully we will be meeting them later in the pub! Fingers crossed could be a result.

Last night ended up in Smithys and the Yetti bar, and saw one of the reps who we completely anialated with snowballs!

Have also had a minor skiing injury and tweaked my knee doing some big jumps in the board park, but should be ok, just having a few days off from the skiing. Just had one of the ski instructors around and let him have a case of wine out the back which is a bit naughty, but good to keep friendly with those guys!

Anyway new years eve tonight so should be awesome. New years resolution not to pull any pigs this season - or perhaps not to pull anymore!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

admin — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:57:58 +0000

So not the most exciting post on the blog ever but with every years passing it should be marked!

So thanks to eveyone who has taken the time to visit Plooka.com we are still a little site and have been going for barely 6months however those of you who have kept an eye on things from the start will notice a lot has changed and a lot has happened! The site is proving more and more popular and we are soon to hit 1million hits! So heopfully we are forging some room for ourselves out there in internet land.

Hopefully you are enjoying the site, liking the Forum, we always love to see you in there. Have read some of our stories and articles in the Seasonaires section, provided us with you resort reviews, had a look at the equipment in our store, our webcams, seasonaires diary and more and more.

So heres to 2008 and we hope 2009 is as spectacular!

The Plooka Team.

Next weeks itinery!

Seasonaire — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 05:28:03 +0000

Well what was expected was more drinking and partying primarily, some skiing, some snogging no doubt, oh and guests to contend with, having seen the rooming list and it looked like a family and some couples so more low key. However they so far have actually turned out to be really cool.

Our first week guests left thinking they were really wacky and would never be replaced, however already this group has been more fun, have bought more beers and seem ike a good laugh. We have a couple of brummies, two girls who I think are together Also a couple from Dublin, some borders, and some older couples, but quite cool and down with the kids!

So hoping this week will rock - plus new years eve is approaching!

Christmas Eve Been and Gone!

Seasonaire — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:59:58 +0000

Merry Christmas Everyone!

The last few days have been pretty hardcore, and since the drinking of training week I could do with a rest, however it has only just started - think I may be getting to old for this! Have been hanging out with the guests a bit this week, and a few nights on the beers. Christmas Eve was quality and Christmas day exceptional. Must admit though we were perhaps a bit too drunk cooking Christmas lunch, but I think we got away with it. Have also discovered the scary drink of Mutzig in the French bars and need to keep well away, 8% beer is never a good idea!!

Have also been frequenting a great place called the Rhumerie, where you have loads of rums behind the bar, you choose the size of bottle you want and they fill it up - think it is about 12 euros for a bottle! And the carnage then follows. Usually involving someone drawing on my face.

Been doing a little skiing as well over the passed few days and getting my snow feet again, and hitting the board park for some small rails and jumps - will hopefully build up my confidence over the season. Has been fun teaching James my chalet host mate to ski as well, he hasn’t done it before, although getting him to turn is proving difficult as he can’t be bothered!

Anyway time for some sleep!

So first guests have arrived!

Seasonaire — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:13:36 +0000

I forgot how hectic a changeover day could be! However our new guests have arrived safe and sound. Had some good people turn up, Kay and Tory plus 2 kids, they’re all skiers. Then Yetti and Vicki, Susan and Paul, and a group of borders called Andy, Gary, Lisa, Mark and Adam. That’s all I got so far, the borders definately seem a bit too cool for school, so we will see how that pans out! Have had all the reps coming in now and giving it the big sell for the pub crawls, skidoo nights, tours etc so will hopefully get on some of them.

So have had a great first night out with the guests and they bought us lots of drinks which was cool, and means no more spending the pound whilst it is worthless! Had a few beers in town and some games of pool which was good, and got in to a massive snowball fight with some locals on the way home! Did out bit for UK/French relations Needless to say we conquored all!

Where your car Dude!

A Noisy Quiet Night!

Seasonaire — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:23:32 +0000

That was the nosiest quiet night ever! Me, James, and one of the other chalet hosts drank 5 bottles of wine! Then a little lubricated we started putting the world to rights, and hit the bars. Arriving to raptuous applause is always fun. Met some other chalet hosts from Mark Warner, there were a couple of hotties so that looks good, and was handed a hip flask from some random that served as some good fire juice for our drinks! Played a few games of pool, but then shocker - we were refused entry to Smithys by some massive bouncer dude!

Finally after giving up we thumbed down a van on the road and hitch-hicked home, crazy I would never normally do that, and we just sat in the back of some van hoping that at some point we would be let out, luckily we were! Got back to the chalet, James cooked up a fry up and I was sick three times!

Guests are arriving soon, so I am hoping things calm down a bit as I feel a bit done in today. Have spent a lot of it watching Dave Chappelle - great American comedian. Also I am well aware that I haven’t even mentioned skiing yet!

SORTED!

A little magic dust for the website.

admin — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:39:19 +0000

As you can imagine this time of year Snow based websites get a little busier! Well things have started to hot up a bit at Plooka, or I guess it would make more sense to say cool down….or perhaps it wouldn’t.

Anyway we thought that it would be great to get a new homepage up and running, as we have learnt some new cool website design thingys over the passed few weeks and wanted to show them off. Anyway the new homepage is there and we hope you like it, and we hope it makes us rich!

In other news……..lets get serious for a second, the Forum is still there, come say hi! We are running a competition to hand out $100 for the best ski resort review in our ski resorts section. On this link…

http://www.plooka.com/Forum/competition-100-dollars-to-be-wonǃ-t225.html

News has been flodding in from out intrepid Seasonaire in the French Alpes - we slowly managing to keep up with what is going on out there, it sounds like fun!

And we all saw the lift break in Whistler - hopefully everyone is ok and there is no more of that for the 2008/2009 Season!

Dear Diary……

Seasonaire — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:00:27 +0000

SKOOL GIRL NIGHT DONE! A few beers in the chalet, finally convinced James they are for men! Then a few bottles of Kronenboug 1664, and some vodkas and coke. Then watched ‘Wanted’ great movie like the matrix meets fight club. So a few more beers on, a pint of wine, a Dr Peppers (half coke, half beer, shot of Amaretto) and memories become really hazy!

Met some hot girl called Barbie, she actually did look like barbie, and had fantastic breasts. I vaguely remember kissing them in the toilets and then hitting the Techno Techno Techno. Then I pulled the Crystal girl again - I still don’t remember who she is!!! I think her name may be Lucy? But still not sure, and would not recognise her if I bumped in to her in the street - it must stop! Oh and some guy tried to kill me because I spilt my drink on him - a bit of an over reaction I think.

The newsflash is that I think I may have a quiet night in tonight and try to lay of the booze, altough all the wine for the season arrived in our chalet today so it may prove temping!

Jackass Out!

Le ‘Journal’

Seasonaire — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:15:36 +0000

We have made it to Deux Alpes and where we will be spending the rest of the season - Result! So far me and James have torn up La Tania, spent a week in Alp d’heuz training and now we are here for the rest of the Season or until out livers stop working.

There are some cool people working with us in the resort and we have met the tour guides as well who we will be workign with, so looks like we are all going to have a great time! Hit a few bars as well, but missing the honeys that we met in Alp d’heuz - would have been nice to have spent a season getting to know them better.

The drinking has been going solid, and our first night in Deux Alpes involved breakdancing, singing, pulling, dancing and using poles….?!? Have made it to Secret Bar and Yetti, and there have been some hot bar maids cited. Also made ourselves known in Smithys and finally ended the night in Le Avalanche. Apparantly I pulled some girl from Crystal but have no idea who she was!

Anyway we have a School Disco tonight so should be good to see how that one goes…

Oh Yeah……BOM BOM - Chick Chica Chigaaah

December Flying Past!

Seasonaire — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:05:12 +0000

Last night was definately worth a mention, or what I can remember of it! We started drinking in our chalet in Alp d’heuz. We got a 26 pack of stubbies, sat aroun for a meal, and proceeded to get absolutely trousered. Me and James were leading the way, and doing our best to show off in front of all the hot girls! We played the usual drinking games, slaps, name games, thumb master, 21, no saying the word drink etc and had a quality time. By the time the meal was over we were obviously enjoying ourselves and all the songs were coming out then - I cannot sing at all!

Then we went on a pub crawl, they were as follows, hit the Pacific bar. Really small and cavanous and one if the taller guys slammed his head in to the door on the way in. Played a few games of pool, and I hit some ‘trick shots’ then we hit the Slide bar. Which basically has a slide in it! Everytime we wanted to go to the toilet some bloke injected our moves full of shots and then we slid down to the toilets for you know what. Then at some point the whole bar was on fire…..random but cool!

Then we hit the Sharky bar, I think it was called, then somewhere else, and finally ended up in the Iglu Bar. A bottle of vodka was E80 so we bought one of them, and then just gathered everyone around and got shitfaced. Finally we walked the hot chalet girls home like gentlemen - no luck then, and headed hom without scoring - oh well.

I can definately tell me and James have been earmarked as ones to watch by the resort manager so may need to keep our heads down for a few days!

WIPE OUT!