One week down

We head into the second week 0f our hols with great times behind us. The skiing/boarding at Copper is magnificent and we've all made decent progress with our respective abilities.


Having a couple of rest days over the weekend has enabled us to enjoy a couple of other activities most notably dog mushing in Leadville yesterday.


None of us had done anything like this before and the apprehension was tangible as we waited for our guide to lead us out to the dogs and sled. Kirby was a lovely chap and did his best to ease us into the techniques and skills required to take full control of the sled. To be honest, we were really just holding on but the lack of any 'skilled' person on the sled alongside the driver was quite unnerving.



We all took it in turns to 'mush', lay in the sled and ride on the trailer on the back of the skidoo, from where all the pics could be taken. There were a couple of hairy moments but we all came back safe and sound. An amazing experience.

Copper

Hey folks. After a long old trip we got here safely around 24 hours ago. Although it's been our first full day we've not hit the slopes yet - food shopping and jet lag put paid to that. Tomorrow the fun starts.

Here's a crappy pic from our balcony (which I can't imagine we'll ever use)...



More as the week moves on.

Bring on the snow.

As earlier advertised, Fi, Rach, Paul and I are off to Copper Mountain CO for a couple of weeks of skiing/boarding. Packing is almost done, which is a relief given the time of our flight tomorrow morning.

I'm hoping to be able to post here, and to my Flickr pages whilst in the US so hopefully more soon.

Blogtastic

You know there are so many good blogging tools available on the internet. Traditionally I've always used Blogger, but at the moment I think Microsoft have done a great job with the Spaces pages. Also, everyone's on MySpace right? So here's what I'm going to do. Blogger will continue to be my reference source for my blogs. Once I've posted there I'll copy to both my Live Space and my MySpace. Uber-blogging if you will.

To make this a little easier, here's the links to these pages:

My Live Space

My MySpace

HAPPY 2007

Says it all really. Happy New Year to everyone we know. Lots of Love, Andy, Fi & Harrison.