Bad Day At Big White

The boys had a couple of  bad experiences today while out skiing!!
Ned this morning went out with his favourite instructor Evil Dr Phil. We popped in at lunchtime to see how he was and he skied up absolutely covered in snow, he had  got to what he thought was the top of a small mound expecting to ski down it only  to find it was a massive boulder with a 10 foot sheer drop!! Too late to back out he skied off the top of it and landed only to find the tips of his skis dug into fresh snow and stopped dead. Unfortunately he didn't. His face plant in the snow was witnessed by a patrolling medic who picked him up and massaged his feet, questioned him and pronounced him fit to carry on skiing. When we saw him at lunch he was laughing about it and quite proud of his ability to face plant himself in snow from 10 feet and come out laughing.

Charlie had a moment that only Charlie can have, we picked up Ned and Lucy at the allotted time 3.15pm only to find no Charlie.
By 3.45 we were starting to get worried so Joy got the ski school to radio Charlie's instructor to find out where they were. We are on the lift came the reply and sure enough a few minutes later of came Charlie and his instructor.
It turns out that on the last run of the day down to the village Charlie was at the back of the class when he fell over. No big deal except when Charlie got up he couldn't see any of his class. Being the sensible chap that he is he skied up to an adult and told him what had happened and would he take him down to safety. Meanwhile back at ski school his instructor is shitting bricks that he is 1 Charlie short  of a class full.
Charlie at this time had been taken to the mountain rescue hut where they were able to radio ski school to say had they lost a child and if so that had one going spare!!.
Off goes a very relieved instructor to pick Charlie up and bring him back to his parents. Expecting his parents to be furious with him he proceeded to apologise profusely only to realise that we weren't to bothered and felt happy that Charlie had acted in intelligent manner by asking for help and that we should have mentioned Charlie's appalling sense of direction!!!
 Lucy has spent the last 1 1/2 days in Jumping Joeys having moved up from Eager Elephants and has almost already moved up again to Racing Raccoons. Twice now i have picked her up from ski school to be told by the instructor that they are thinking of putting her up a class. When i have told them that she only went in the class 1 1/2 sessions ago they look at me and say O.K we will leave her in Jumping Joeys one more session. One more day of ski school and then proper school starts on Tuesday so Mum and Dad get to do a bit more skiing from then on.
Can't wait!
The picture is of a sun dog as they call them out here not a snow dog as Joy called it.

It is not very clear but you get the idea. We will post a better one hopefully some when.
Excuse the bear in the picture it's Joys homework from school, she is hoping to get a C+ from her teacher.