Park City, Utah

After dropping Lesley at the airport it was home to tidy up the house and pack for our trip to Utah. Just in case there are any Weather Channel aficionados reading this, I saw Jim Cantorre at Atlanta Airport!
We arrived in Salt Lake City on Saturday afternoon just in time for a snowstorm to start.
Once we were checked in we discovered we had been given an upgrade and had a fantastic apartment that slept 6. We had a huge king size bed, the kids had a bed each, there was a very well equipped kitchen and lounge along with not 1 but 2 bathrooms. What a result.

On Sunday it was time to hit the slopes, Tom & Lily were in ski school and both had Scottish instructors, Nick and I went off and skied greens and blue runs all day before returning to collect the children at 3pm. All tired but happy it was home (to our huge apartment) for showers and then out to dinner and a mooch around the shops. More of the same on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday although I was just skiing for half days as that's about as much as I can take. Nick carried on in the afternoons on his home so was able to do some more challenging stuff, or perhaps just go faster since I wasn't there slowing him down!

Thursday finally arrived and it was family (and final) day on the slopes. It started off badly with Lily following Tom and doing an unintentional jump and hurting her wrist, so there were tears aplenty. Lily and I took a time out while the boys got in an extra run. Then it was Tom's turn, he decided he was up for a black run called Combustion. It was steep and full of moguls so Lily and I took the easy option and met Tom in a crumpled heap at the bottom of the black run with a slightly smashed up face and black eye. Now it was Tom's turn to cry :( After renaming the black Canbust Tom and retrieving his ski's from half way up the slope we sorted him out and went for a well deserved hot chocolate and a rest.

Lily and I finished up at lunchtime and went for a manicure (lily) and pedicure (me) before hitting the shops for a few souvenirs. The boys had better fun with no injuries in the afternoon so everyone was happy. Then it was time to pack up and get ready for returning home on Friday.

Saturday was of course Nick's 40th so after opening presents including the rather natty pasta necklace that Lily insisted he wear all day we went off to Baseball for a practice game before the real games start. Nick also got to watch Wolves play Villa live on tv which was apparently the best present, yes, even better than the pasta necklace!

On returning home we got a call from Sian inviting us round for a bbq at their house to watch the England France rugby match, Olivier & Amelie were also going as it was Olivier's birthday too. So we had a lovely day with friends celebrating Nick's birthday, this was really appreciated by me as I hadn't organised anything and was feeling a little bit guilty.

Yesterday we had a nice relaxing day and I took Tom & Lily to see Alice in Wonderland, which is brilliant, we all really enjoyed it, while Nick stayed at home and caught up with paperwork.

I also signed up for boot camp so was up at 5.15 this morning to be at the YMCA for 5.30am. Still feeling very smug and energised but am expecting to wilt some time after lunch.