More boarding

I took Robyn up on the mountain again today, to do a bit more practicing before she gets a proper lesson, passing on my extremely limited knowledge... It was super busy today, it's American Thanksgiving weekend and a loooooot of people are up here for it. We did take the camera though, so here's a picture of Robz on her gear and strapped in, apologies for the finger in the photo but it was cold so it was just a quick snap!

Unfortunately it's all a bit warm at the moment and it's raining in the alpine rather than snowing, which means not only are the limited trails really busy, the snow isn't in great shape either. Still... we've got a whole season to look forward to, which is a nice thought while all the Yanks are moaning about going home!

Jon

Snowboarding!

Jon took me out on the mountain today to do some falling over. I fell over a lot let than expected (the padded shorts we bought were a very good investment though!) and I can kind of turn both ways. I didnt go on a run though, just played about on the baby slope by the ski school. My friends who live with us who havent went boarding did go down on a run and apparently didnt do so great, so I'm glad I didnt go down! Feeling confident before my lessons though. Jon did some runs and we are both very achey! Yay.

Theres no snow down here yet, and apparently not that much on the mountain (not that I would know... Someone else asked me what the snow was like... How do I bloody know? Its white and cold?) but we'll get you all some snowy pics soon.

Love yooooou :) xxx

Nearly there!

The mountain FINALLY opens on Wednesday! The lift near us doesn't open till Thursday, so we'll probably wait to go up until then. Jons board is all ready and we'll get mine set up tonight. We think that I'll be riding 'goofy,' which is board-speak for the wrong way round :|

We bought some very fetching padded bum shorts today so we dont break our arse bones when we inevitably fall down, which will probably happen a lot. I have never had so much sports equipment in my life! (Board, boots, ski jacket and 2xpants, bum shorts, thermals, helmet, gloves and googles, ice skates... this scares me!) Jon bought a rather fetching skull cap (for under his helmet) and I got an actually fetching thermal jumper.

No real snow down here in the valley yet but it wont be too long now. It snowed a little the other day and it hasn't all melted yet. So soon!

Granny, we think we have your parcel. We'll be posting our Christmas stuff home this week xxx

Lots of love,
Robyn and Jon