-10* with windchill of -17* but with bright bright sunshine. So what does a family of four do on a Sunday when the sun is shining and the slopes are just a twenty minute drive away. We go snowboarding of course. Obviously this takes us all morning to get our gear together, have breakfast, think about what clothes to wear and which gloves to take and pack the car.
When we arrived, the car park was full as all the lessons have started now. Smallest forgot his helmet and goggles even though Huffle had very kindly sorted everything out for us before we left. We ummed and ahhed about whether to rent him a helmet but as we were only down the road, I decided to drive back and get them while Huffle queued for lift tickets. Eventually I was back with everyone for about 12:30. Tickets weren't bought as Huffle wanted to get Smallest a lesson and they were only available at 2:30pm. We decided that was fine and went off to the magic carpet to warm up. After about three goes, we chose to go up the chairlift (the smallest one). Small came with me and we were both dreading the lift as we weren't keen and although Small was confident of getting off, I was scared I would fall over at the end again. Small got off well and glided away whereas I fell in a splat and scrabbled on my knees to stop myself being hit by the chair. We watched Smallest and Huffle get off and Smallest did really well and then landed in a heap but he was fine and wanted to do it again as soon as we boarded down the hill.
Huffle was really good with Smallest and guided him down the hill safely. Small and I zig zagged our way down the hill. At the bottom we did it again and after my third go I managed it. In fact we all did it. Wahooo. We were so pleased with ourselves and even the man at the bottom of the lift commented. We went up and down a few more times and half an hour before Smallest's lesson, me and him went in and got ourselves a hot chocolate and a coffee and a warm. When he started his lesson (just him and another boy) Huffle, Small and I attempted the bigger lifts. Small and I fell down the first time but after that we managed to stay up and had great runs coming down.
Middle Left: a bit of photo trickery with two Small's.
After an hour of lifts and runs we finally joined up with a tired little boy who wanted to go up the lift again. We took him up and he decided he wanted to go down a different way, despite the fact that Huffle told him not to. He fell and hurt his bum and gave up and walked down the slope. We decided to call it a day as we only had minutes left before our passes ran out anyway and made our way to the chip shop.
We are obviously regulars there now as the waitress came up and said "how were the slopes today? Four specials?". All full of food and limbs warmed, we set off back home. Smallest went straight into an Epsom Salt bath to ease his tired limbs and hurt bottom and Huffle followed him when he finished. I sat and blogged and Small played on the IPad.
We had the best snowboarding day ever. All of us going up the lifts and finding new runs and being able to get off the chair lifts was just fabulous. We are so lucky to live so close. Huffle bought a book of tickets for the resort for just $50 to enable us to get 2-1 offers, half prices passes, night passes etc etc and we have already saved so much money. That's amazing. Smallest's instructor said he was doing well but needed to practice his back edging. We thought his back edging was fine but we will practice and practice. Today he said he was so pleased he could do more exciting stuff. I said he never needed to spend hours on the nursery slopes again. He said he would do it all again when he had kids so he could teach them to board too.
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