Happy New Year ...

Happy New Year to you all. We spent the day on the slopes of Sunshine Valley as we were half way through our ski rec lessons - 5 days of skiing tuition which was great fun - our instructor was called Ernie - that fastest milk float on skis! We had half the week at Lake Louise ski resort and then moved to Sunshine Valley. Unfortunately we did not have glorious weather as the clouds came down and it snowed for 3 of the days but had great fun - even skiing at -20 degrees. New Years Eve was fairly quiet as we all went round to our friends Jo & Pete for a few drinks but the Teskeys and Leonards were home at 10.30 pm to put very tired children to bed but we managed to stay up until 12.30am to see the new year in with a bottle of bubbles it was then straight to bed as we were up at 6.00am on New Years day for more skiing. Breakfast was eaten in the car with chocolate brownies in the cable car - energy food!

Prior to N/Y's eve Chris had a boys night out to see Calgary Flames vs LA Kings ice hockey in Calgary. He had a great night out with the Flames winning 2-1 and was home just after midnight - the following morning was another 6am start for skiing.

Tegan managed to complete 4 1/2 days of the ski rec which was great considering that she is only just 6 years old and was skiing from 9am to 3pm with only a 1hr lunch break - however by Friday lunchtime she couldn't speak due to tiredness so spent the afternoon with Chris sitting in front of a fire and drawing. Tegan and Chris did ski off the mountain on Friday night which was great - amazing to see how well she has progressed with her skiing. Fraser and I skied to the halfway point and then caught the bubble car down.

Today (Sat) has been a day off and tomorrow we are off to see the Calgary Flames hockey team on the Super Skills day which should be good fun.

Unfortunately our camera has packed in so no pictures for the moment. Wishing you all a happy 2010 - bad luck if you are back to work on Monday as we have another week here in Canmore skiing and hot tubing!!!