Snow capers!

Thanks for all those great suggestions in the last post. As Mum-me pointed out, I probably shouldn't blame the wattle as it's flowers weren't opened up until late last month - I guess there's most likely something else around causing this reaction.

Last weekend we went to the snow!!!! YAY!!!

Jud decided that climbing the pile of snow at the end of the taboggan run was fun!!

Now for those of you who live in a place where it snows it probably doesn't sound all that exciting, but here in Australia there isn't a lot of snow to be found, so generally people make the treck up the mountains to the snowfields (it's about 3 hrs from here to the Selwyn snowfield). We went with some people from church & it was wonderful. Just seeing the snow is beautiful in itself - sadly I didn't take my big camera out in the snow, but only had our old snap happy - very dodgy one (that I couldn't tell when it had & hadn't taken a photo, so I have some really unusual pictures in the bunch) - there was so much I would have loved to photograph, but when you're juggling 3 children & 2 taboggans all day, well some things just get left not done!

Eli -note the one glove on & one off look!!

Dave & Zai both had lessons & poor little Zai having just turned 7 (Oh, I'd better get that birthday post done) was put into a group with 7 to 16 year olds - he was the littlest one there, but he did manage to get down the slope once. He was very proud to show me his technique after the lesson - I think he would have benefited from another couple of days there. Dave was described as "crazy" on skis (by his mate that was skiing with him) - yes, I would believe this - I'm the sensible (insert boring) one of the family - LOL!!!

Ellie did have a couple of rides on the snow tubes (I also had one!!!!) as a lady came & gave me a ticket because her son had had enough rides - there was 3 rides left - what a lovely gift! - this is Ellie being towed back up the hill!

Ellie was on the toboggans nearly the whole time - how she wasn't tired from walking up that hill so many times, I don't know, but she managed to keep sparkling til bedtime (all the boys had a sleep on the bus on the way down the mountain to where we were staying). Ellie also managed to make a friend ( a big girl of course - to look after her!!!) I wish I had her gift of making friends so easily - I'm much more shy than she is.

A random photo by the camera - don't they just look so happy - not!!!

Eli & Jud didn't like wearing their gloves & subsequently complained after a while of being cold - so we had a sit down before they took off again down the toboggan slope - they are actually quite scary as they have no control over direction, & were so little - thankfully people just got out of their way!


Zai as we began to see snow out of the bus window - I think I'll always get a thrill - it's just so breathtakingly beautiful!

Poor little Zai became a "lost child" during the day - something I'd never thought would ever happen to one of my children - he had gone off with Dave to ski, but decided he didn't want to when he got to the top of the slope, so Dave told him to go to the toboggan area & find me - unfortunately I'd taken the 3 younger ones for a snack in the chalet so he couldn't find me (which I had told Dave about as I needed his wallet with the money in - he must be forgetful in his old age - LOL) Thankfully a lovely lady took him to the info desk (the funny thing is we probably were only 10 m away, around a corner).

Anyway after a while we headed back to the toboggan area to find Zai being escorted around by one of the workers looking for me.

Eli towing a toboggan is right in the middle of the picture!

One of the biggest things I noticed was how multicultural it was up there - I guess here it's rare to see anyone who isn't an Aussie, but I could have easily pointed out people from many different countries. I think we were the minority.


All in all we had a great time!!! Definitely something to do again- although next time it's my turn to ski!