All I wanna do is SKI!!

Something must have happened, but the last 2 times we have been skiing, we haven't taken a single picture - either we have just become so blaaze about it, or.... mmm, or, actually I don't know why. But nonetheless, we have done nothing else for the last few week-ends than head off to the mountains to get in that fresh mountain air and the powder beneath our skis.

The girls join in with the kiddies group lessons and complain that it is boring every time they have to stop and wait for the other kids to catch up. But it at least gives us a 3 hour break to hit the slopes (slopes other than the easy blue/green family slope). Since finding our feet in Samoens, we have braved every slope at Arber, includng the 2 black runs (the first of which I came down more in a broadside skid than a ski), but found them all quite do-able, if not elegant-able. The second black run is definitely my favourite run of the resort.

Today (being Sunday), we just made the trip for the day, leaving Plzen at 7.30, we were still there well in time to hire skis for the girls and check them into their 9.30 lesson. On leaving Plzen this morning it was -9 and by the time we reached Arber it was clocking in at a whopping -15! I was almost certain that the day would be in vain as the children would complain when they became solid blocks of ice... but fortunately, the sun was blazing and in almost no time it was a very comfortable -5.

Also, it is newsworthy to add last week-end we have now taken the plunge and purchased our very own skis. If you want to have some good service and very friendly advice, I would recommend Sport-Poeschl in Bayerisch Eisenstein and the friendly manager Jurgen.

Next week-end we are heading to Austria for the week-end to ski in Hochficht. So, I am sure there will be some photo stories and blogs to follow about that.