September 6, 2011
Ohau Retro-style
Our neighbours, Paul & Amanda, at Castle Hill invited us to join them down at Lake Ohau for an extended 40th birthday gathering with a retro-theme, and the retro-style competition both on and off the slopes was hard to beat. Fantastic calm blue-sky day on the Saturday for a barbeque on the slopes with the mother-of-all-barbeques arriving on it’s own wheels. It’s getting harder and harder to keep up with Evie on the slopes, and Conor, Ildica & Evie all had some (mostly successful) attempts at the snowboard box jump! Ohau Ski Field is an awesome location, would love to go back sometime when it’s got more snow.
Posted by conor at 3:02 PM
July 24, 2011
Winter holidays
After turning up to The Doug to find water cascading through the downstairs light fittings (due to more crappy plumbing work), the first week of the school holidays turned out to be blessed by great weather and a reasonable amount of snow. Got the house dried out within 48 hours (thanks to Tony from Enviroclean, who claimed his industrial wet-vac could "suck a sailor off your sister"), and settled the kids into 5 mornings of ski school at Porters where by the end of the week, we are now almost struggling to keep up with Evie on all the pistes there. Just in time for the latter half of the week, Granny & Grandad had sent over some funky helmet covers from Headztrong which the kids loved.
Posted by conor at 9:19 PM
July 11, 2011
Winter is here (finally!)
While the forecast was pretty rough for this weekend (apart from the hope that that meant some snow might arrive!), we took a punt and went up for the weekend, and while Saturday was pretty miserable, Sunday dawned pretty nice, and the kids were rapt to find about 6-8cm of snow carpeting the village.
Posted by conor at 10:40 PM
July 13, 2010
Kids first taste of skiing at Porters this year
Ruairi's first time on snow, Evie's second, and they had a blast. 2 mornings up at Porters and after they seemed keen, we signed them up for a lesson each morning. Evie "gets" it already, and is snow-ploughing and stopping like a good thing. Ruairi less so, getting so distracted by everything else going on around him. Both managed the button lift a couple of times on their second lesson.
Posted by conor at 10:52 AM
