While all of the kids have seen snow this was the first time for skiing for Jack and Molly.
Molly had no interest in skis but Jack was keen as. Well! We thought it might be a waste of money with the little kids getting bored. How wrong we were!
Jack went in with great enthusiasm, and tolerated his teacher with great patience. (ski school won't take under 7 for group lessons so mum was it).
Molly was happy to play on a tabbogan and in the snow for 3 hours this morning and most of the afternoon.
Jack in the beginning got the snow plow backwards, but in the end mastered it on his own when his mother left him alone. :)
It took the morning to teach him that the rope tow would not hold him up and by the afternoon he was going up and down the beginner slope by himself.
In the last hour Molly decided that she would like to ski (we were there for 7 hours)so we decided to humour her and lent her Jack's skis. Well, I wish we had encouraged her earlier. In the photos you will see her first trip down with support of dad, and the second all on her own. In all 5 runs she never fell, and you can't take the smile off her face. We did however resort to the daddy chair lift for getting to the top as I could not face another session of teaching rope tow skills at the end of the day.
Sabastian had a ski lesson and was again above the skills of those in his class. Fortunately they recognised this and gave him 1 on 1 when he should have been in a group. He is starting to learn parallels and is feeling great. His mother even showed him that after 13 years off skis she could still get down the mountain (a little rusty though).
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