curlingatthebonspeil


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In the holidays, while our family was up in Naseby for one week we saw in the paper that the bonspeil (Huge Curling Tournament) had been called. Dad had said that it only happens when it has been a really frosty and the ice on the Idaburn dam is thick enough to curl on. The Idaburn Dam is a huge pond in the Summer and a dam that is covered in ice in Winter. Since the Bonspeil is rarely to get called Dad said that we were going to go and have a look. When we got to the Oturehua turn off it all of a sudden became really really foggy. When we actually got to the Idaburn dam it was still really foggy and freezing cold as they had not had any sunny days there for quite some time. But this did not harm the curlers.

We saw some curling on Monday night at the artificial ice skating rink. It was our friend Kelvin playing and he had invited us to watch.

On Saturday it was the Naseby ice festival. Which meant that the ice skating, luge and curling was all free. There was a huge turn out and apparently there was over 250 cars parked in the carpark !!!

I have had a great holiday seeing Tommy, Pip, Lisa, Kelvin and everyone else that lives up there. Also it was still very snowy and local residents say that they think there will be more coming. The snow when we left had been around on the ground for over 40 days. There was a couple of snow storms last Thursday. We also had a go at Ice Skating, Ice Hockey and Curling. Ice skating was so much fun, we went skating every day.

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