Can you wiggle your fingers?

Canada apparantly won the Olympics - that is what Small's friend Cog said. Well done Canada, to win the whole olympics was an amazing feat. Someone needs to tell them that Hockey is not the whole Olympics, there are other sports too!

After breakfast we went snowboarding. There were many cars in the car park but on our little slopes there weren't many people and at times we had the hills to ourselves.

The new helmets worked very well though Smallest could have done with the glasses I broke yesterday as it was very bright and sunny. Smallest managed to turn well and stop but despite his progress he spent a lot of the time in tears. He fell a few times and bumped his head. We had to ask him not to lay still for so long as when are at the top of the hill and he has fallen, just laying there not moving, we think he is properly hurt and rush to his assistance, only to find that he just can't be bothered to get up. While we were all at the top doing up our bindings, Smallest went down, fell, bumped his head, put up his thumb so we knew he was okay but stayed there, not moving. A Ski Patrol man came to his assistance and apparently asked him if he was alright, what had he hurt, did he know where he was and could he wiggle his fingers. When he got yes' to all the questions, he helped him up and went back to his station.

We stopped for lunch of homemade egg sandwiches which we ate outside as the smell may have offended, plus the sun was beautiful. It was reminiscent of Bulgaria again at the top of the mountain, the only thing missing was the packet of jaffas sitting in the snow.

We stopped for mid afternoon snack and drink too, but we didn't get an awful lot more out of Smallest. Too tired? Too much snowboarding for one so small? We have to constantly 'big him up' and remind him he is only six and that this Winter Sports is all very new to us all. He is doing brilliantly. They have both asked for lessons but we are very aware that we are running out of time, what with our trip in a couple of weeks, so we have decided that at the beginning of next Winter they will have a couple of lessons and then we can spend the rest of the season exploring the higher slopes, unless we can fit lessons in next weekend!

We all had a good time despite Smallest and his head! We ended up entertaining him when he sat on the bench in the sunshine and we kept boarding down towards him and trying to get closest to him without falling over. In the end we left about 3pm and came home. The boys were silly as ships all the way home (NOT tired!!!!??????), so we sent them in the garden to play. They wrestled one another in the snow and then came in to get warm. After all equipment was dried and put away they played on the IPad and DS while Huffle had a bath, I soaked my poorly foot in Epsom salts and knitted.

We had dinner in front of a film (Narnia Prince Caspian) but we didn't get to watch it all before it was bedtime. Smallest read a couple of chapters of his book to Huffle while Small and I drew and coloured.

Huffle and I have started to watched the series 24 so we watched another episode with our tea. We are both very tired and achey and weary. If we last till 10pm without snoozing I shall be very surprised.

 

 

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