Skiing in Sölden

So, this was the view from our guest house balcony - not bad hey!!!

We had great sunshine (for about an hour), which made the girls blink and squint...

There was a little chapel on the hill next to our pension, and the girls and I went to explore it. The photo below is from the side of the church.
The guesthouse had a farmyard out back, and the girls specially bought carrots from the local Spar to be able to give the sheep a treat.

We stayed in Oetz which was about 30kms from Sölden, so every day we had the drag of driving 30 minutes through some of the most beautiful scenery in the world..The girls, all dressed up and ready to ski!
The slopes at Sölden were really stunning - very wide and the snow was in great nick. The downside was the crowds. This photo was taken on the Saturday when the ski resorts do a change over, so most of the patrons were packing and leaving or arriving and unpacking with only the locals having a chance to hit the slopes. The next couple of days was a complete zoo.
The resort itself is situated on a couple of glaciers, so once you ascend the first few lifts, you can do some amazing routes with lookouts at over 3000m. Unfortunately, we had overcast weather while we were there with complete cloud cover from about 2000m, so the trip to the glacier was pointless as we couldn't even see our skis higher up the mountain.

Unfortunately, the little Zazz got sick the day we arrived, so we probably spent more time babysitting than skiing and were restricted to the very basic slopes when we were skiing. Amber took a big leap forward on this trip though, doing some decent reds with Dad and doing really well. The tractor girls... (an old farm tractor was parked outside the restaurant...)

Amber loses her first tooth!

Ever since Cousin Vincent showed off his wiggly tooth to our two girls, and on looking at the horror on their faces I had explained that losing teeth was something that only happened when you turned 6, there has been a fixation with the magical number 6. Somehow, this was the age when everything changed and you were suddenly a "big children". Well, Amber turned 6, and being the dutiful mum, I checked her teeth for signs of fallage. Little did I ever expect that I would indeed find a "wiggly toof". It was definitely the fastest fallage I have ever witnessed! From first examination to all out was a sum total of 3 days!

And here is what happened when it came out ...

For Sarah the sight of Amber's tooth lost it's novelty fast