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.

It snowed on Sunday night, a great way for James to start back in school. He would much rather of been playing in the snow.
Since then it has been really cold, down to -11C in the city last night, not over -3C during the day and now it is -7 as I head off for the night. It is keeping everything crisp and white, and it looks like the next couple of days will be more of the same.

Finally, I have managed to update some of the site.
The version of  Wordpress being used is now the current 2.7 version. This will hopefully stop some of the spam problems I have had of late. I will wait a couple of days and see, but am keeping my fingers crossed.

I have also updated our photo album, or rather I have updated the software that runs the photo album. I have started to reload all of our pictures in to this, but it will take a few more days to be complete and before I can add a few more pictures.

It should all be possible this week, I still have the whole week of work and James starts back in school, so I should be able to find the time.

Welcome to 2009, I mean to keep you updated as the year moves on.