Mads and Bobs

Sunday, March 30, 2014

Day Two at Ski School

It was a snowy day and -10 but the boys were in a better mood this morning because they knew what to expect.

They got to progress onto a slightly steeper hill. Bobs started snowplowing more ( and at times, just went straight down ). Mads still needs a bit of help.

KK and KC and JJ decided to do a short morning ski at the hill as well. They had their lessons over a 5 week period and are now pros.

EJ ( Sarah's son) was supposed to be in our group, but he broke his arm a few weeks back and wasn't able to participate.

After skiing, we had brunch at Mormor and Morfars as Morfar is finally back from being in Germany for a few months.

Saturday, March 29, 2014

Ski School

Today was the boys first lesson at Canada Olympic Park. Mads was very apprehensive to try it.

We had to listen to a lot of crying and whining.

We hid away from the kids and watched them learn to put their skis on.

The lesson is an hour and a half long. I was very surprised at how fast they progressed in that time.

I showed them some youtube videos this morning so they knew what to expect. Turns out the videos did exactly what the kids did today. Ski on one foot, making a pizza, and trying out the magic carpet lift.

Here they are going up the magic carpet ride.

Here they are doing their pizza's down the very gentle hill.

Mads wasn't comfortable until about the 4th time down.

Mads lost a ski on his way up, and nobody including himself seemed to notice.

They get to do this all over again tomorrow. I hope it goes a bit more smoothly on the complaining side of things.

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Science Centre at March Break

We had a big playdate at the science centre. It went well at first, and then the place got really busy because all of the school systems are off this week.