Skiing in West Virginia

We had a great time in Snowshoe and would recommend it for a short break, there is not enough to keep you busy for a whole week but a few days is perfect.

As you can see the weather wasn't exactly ideal but we still managed to have a great time, the children did 2 mornings of ski school and are now brilliant, Tom especially. He has no fear and even went down a couple of black runs.

Lily goes down the mountain faster than me (not difficult) but this is because she doesn't remember to turn to slow herself down so she just bombs off, looking slightly out of control but never falling over - brilliant..we will work on the turns next year before she has a nasty accident.

Our drive home yesterday started off at 6.30am in snow and ended at 8.30pm in horrendous thunderstorms and tornado warnings - very exciting to say the least. All glad to be back home in our own beds, not so pleased about having to get up for school this morning though, I had two very tired children to rouse out of bed. As is usual when we have been away, the sun room flooded last night during the storms before we got home, so the carpet is soaking wet again. Luckily it is cold but sunny today so the doors and windows are wide open to try and help it to dry out.

We took two short videos of the children skiing, one is just of Tom on a Black run, the other one is of Tom & Lily but until I can edit out Lily's 'little outburst' directed at Tom, she doesnt want it to be shown to anyone!!! If anyone knows how to do this, let me know because I have no clue.