Despite the coooooooold temperatures we headed to Mt Abram yesterday for our first ski trip of this year. Hannah is signed up to go for four Saturdays on a Community Services trip, and I just wanted to get us all onto the slopes.
It was cold but great fun. Mark, Ellie and Mike all ended up with a private ski lesson each - Ellie was sobbing that she didn't want to ski so her instructor took pity and gave her a one-on-one lesson. By the end she was doing snowplough turns quite happily.
Mark spent half his lesson just getting the feel of skis, then after his lesson was up he and I spent some time just going up the magic carpet and down the slope. He's getting very confident and gaining a little understanding that snowploughing slows you down. His snowplough involves turning left though...
Mike was on skis for the first time in about a century, but had a fabulous time. And I just went up and down the lift a few times and enjoyed it.
Meanwhile Hannah had a challenging day and survived it. It sounds like it was total chaos when they got off their bus, and she ended up in tears because she had no idea where to go or what to do. An older girl took care of her, and got her to the rental place, then to her lesson. After lunch Hannah ended up skiing totally unaccompanied, which I'm still somewhat in shock about, but she just got on with it. She was pleased as punch with herself.
We met up with her just before her bus was due to leave, and asked her if she'd like to go on the bus or come with us - she said she'd like to go on the bus with her friends. I was proud of her all over again.
Today we all ache... and not only because when we woke up it was -20C. Had a very lazy day.
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