To take to the snow

Take thermals, and you can hire ski suits, which can be a cheaper option if you only go once a year. gloves, hats and scarfs and sunscreen its very easy to get sunburnt

I'm heading up this weekend so will let you know what to take based on what we'll inevitably forget

We just came back and you can hire the kids suits for about $20 from shops in Ohakune and the top of the mountain (I presume you are heading for Ruapehu). Plenty of warm things and changes of clothing, the problem we had was gloves as Fay just takes them off but was crying that her hands were cold the whole time.
The weather wasn't great, the wind nearly blew her away at one point so she and I didn't spend too much time outside, we hid in the cagfe watching Curious George on the TV. But Fay fell over on the steps and almost put her teeth through her bottom lip so we had many hysterics to calm down.
If you get chance try going to the Chateau for Cream Tea (it's about $8), Fay and her little friends had great fun running around the sitting rooms and exploring the bookshelves

When are you coming up???

We have snow falling as I type, changes of clothes are good to have expecially socks.

Who needs to travel - it snowed in Wellington this afternoon!! Thank goodness the heat pump was finally installed yesterday.

Right Teresa... some tips and what went wrong:

Kid was dressed in waterproof overall type things (well, pants with straps ya know?), merino leggings, knitted pants, l/s merino underlayer, icebreaker hoodie, ski jacket, hat and mittens. Which was great. Fantastic even. Until she got snow up her sleeves. Then the sh*t hit the fan.

Soooo... I advise something like fingerless gloves that would fit under their gloves and go some way up their arms. You could easily make a pair out of socks but cutting off the toe and cutting a little hole for thumb. That'd totally prevent snow-up-mitten syndrome.

And definitely have sun glasses or goggles or something. It was really sunny and glarey up at the mountain and can damage eyes really easily.

And just an idea of timing etc... Han lasted a couple of hours and had a few tanties (wanted Jutey?) but I was very ready to head home at 1pm (arrived 11am). I'd have an easy escape plan.

I hired a little sled thing from an Ohakune hire place and it was fabulous. Just sucked when the kid decided it was a good idea that I drag her back up the hill on it. Gah.

But the brillo thing was that because we were just using the sled slope, we didn't have to pay for lift passes or anything so the day was cheap cheap cheap!

Turoa.

Aw we are still yet to go up too, can't this weekend as am heading back to welly again but will do in the next week or so i think.

Janine so long as it is before the 9th of September I will be here.

Thats ok Nikki.