Isn't it amazing that this is the first skiing I've done this season?
First no snow in Collingwood over Christmas
Then, the wind storm that stopped me going to St Moritz in January
and February half-term's wise decision to stay home while Orest took the kids skiing.
So here it is April 1st (no joke) and we have beautiful conditions in St. Johann in Austria for our annual ski camp with the Ukrainian Scouts. Four days of sun and enough snow to shush down on, it was probably the best time to go. Now if only I could duplicate that next year (don't tell Orest)...somehow manufacture a lack of snow or cyclone for each planned trip, so that I only have to go once a season instead of 4-5 times.
Heresy, I know, but after you've been doing it for 20 years, (barring those times I was heavily pregnant or with infant too small for ski school), it gets a bit old. But I married one of those "avid skiiers" who practically wrote these trips into our marriage contract, so not much of a choice.
First no snow in Collingwood over Christmas
Then, the wind storm that stopped me going to St Moritz in January
and February half-term's wise decision to stay home while Orest took the kids skiing.
So here it is April 1st (no joke) and we have beautiful conditions in St. Johann in Austria for our annual ski camp with the Ukrainian Scouts. Four days of sun and enough snow to shush down on, it was probably the best time to go. Now if only I could duplicate that next year (don't tell Orest)...somehow manufacture a lack of snow or cyclone for each planned trip, so that I only have to go once a season instead of 4-5 times.
Heresy, I know, but after you've been doing it for 20 years, (barring those times I was heavily pregnant or with infant too small for ski school), it gets a bit old. But I married one of those "avid skiiers" who practically wrote these trips into our marriage contract, so not much of a choice.
Anyway, skiing was great, Orest won the slalom race for the menfolk (and fastest in the whole camp again), I came in third for the women, Larysa also came in third and Stefanie unfortunately 'bit the biscuit' 3/4 of the way down the course and got a DNF, poor girl. Oh well, better luck next year.
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