Karen Mark & James Redshaw

We finally have been skiing for a week. A week in St Anton, we had never been there before,but a big and busy resort. Lots of skiing and we had great fun. Lift queues were OK except one morning after new snow, then we were all restricted to the bottom half of the mountain and that seemed to make it really busy. But once that was over, and they had sorted out the piste higher in the mountain, it was back to normal. Weather was good, 3 days sun and 2 days snowing, two of them lightly, and one as fast as it could come down, so that day was not as much fun you could hardly see anything…
James improved some more and Ski School was good for him, thanks to Benni his instructor. Karen managed a week with out falling so that was bliss for her, I managed all but one afternoon on my mono so for me even better.
We stayed at at the Gaestehaus Kordula Falch, which was perfect for us. Just a great location next to the lift and the price is right. James could even watch the mechanics of the lift from our room, great fun for him in the morning and evenings as they started it up and then closed it down, he really enjoyed that.

James was delighted to win the trophy for the most unusual car at the cub scout Pinewood derby race. This may be something to do with the fact that his car was not a car it was a bus! And a big yellow bus at that. It started out with the idea that it should be a train, but once James started paining it was clear that it would end up looking more like a bus. Many of the Americans said it was a school bus, but James knows better it is a cub scout bus! Have a look for yourself: