Ice tunnels

Today we had gorgeous blue skies although there was a bitterly cold wind at the top of the mountain.  We had a family ski morning, up and down the Bullet chair and then a few runs in and out of the trees at The Black Forest.  The children's skiing improves every day but they still need to put in the miles and practice what they've learnt at ski school.  On one of the ways back to our house Jamie had spotted what he thought was an ice tunnel so this afternoon we went to investigate.  There were two entrances, both quite small which the children immediately dived down, not caring what might be down there and came out saying that someone had built an ice cave at the bottom and that I should look.  I got half way in when I passed the walkie talkie back out to Ned giving him strict instructions to radio Jamie if I got stuck, another few feet in and the claustrophobia set in and I had to get out of there, not feeling the same kind of panic for my children I sent Ned in with my camera to take some photos, you can just see Lucy's feet poking out of the tunnel (I would have definitely got stuck down there!)

Also this afternoon the children have been writing their Valentines.  This is huge over here, they have to send a card to everyone in the school (lucky there are only 30ish children) and attach a sweet to each.  Every child has an envelope on their desk to collect them in and then they have an activity afternoon when the children's families are invited to participate in Valentines arts and crafts and party tea...I'll know more about how this will pan out on Monday.