Skiing with the Wettons

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Well well well...... last week we were graced with the presence of Ma and Pa Wetton..... We spent the first 3 days skiing. Nat was instructor and her 3 pupils did exceedingly well!

With Nat's Ski School officially up and running, it was all go on the mountain as we snowploughed, parallel turned and fell down each piste in turn. We even had our own lookalike ski patroller with Dave in his red jacket!

I thought skiing seemed easier to pick up than boarding, and less painful, but it seems a lot harder when you go off piste or hit moguls. On a snowboard you can just absorb quite a lot of it, and it seems easier having just one plank strapped to you feet than worrying about two! I got a little ahead of myself and attempted a run called 'the face', all I can say is that I got down, but zero points for style.

We spent the next few days around the area on beach walks, mountain walks, pic nics, hot springs & visit to the Wild West town of Virginia City.....where we saw a $65,000 gold nugget encrusted Rolex in one of the jewellery shops. After checking our pockets we made our best offer of $14.77, which was suprisingly rejected, and were promptly shown the door by a lady with a big perm/wig.

one of our visits took us to beautiful Emerald Bay, where we ate our lunch at the top of a waterfall overlooking the bay. Its a great view, and you can take the mile hike to the bay to see the beach and an old scandinavian style lodge in the bay.

In other news we have been raising much needed funds by selling things on ebay, we sold the broken laptop for more than we paid, which is a good result, and sold nats skis too.

Apparently there has also been a brown bear around who has tipped over the dumpster at our resort and ripped open the lid, we are thinking of setting up overnight surveillance to catch him, or perhaps a ray mears style trap to catch him.

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Photos

My Ski School pupils
Day one on the mountain

zoooooooommmmm....
Dave on the Skyline trail

oops.. Jane's down...
Dave to the rescue (posing as mountain rescue in his red jacket)

Matt is loving it, loving it, loving it!!
He loved those poles, no more skating on the traverses!! Poles to the rescue!!

Jane in action
Needless to say, Jane takes the piste on the LEFT!!

It only took 2.5 months for matt to become patriotic
now all he needs is a gun and a pick up truck!

Comments

[Mike]

hmmmm?!?!?
Was the water that colour when you got in? :)

[dad and mum]

could not have put it better myself, we had a brilliant time. can't wait till next years snowboard tuition in europe from matandnat!

[mummy wetton]

champion at what?
no mention Matt of the champion bowler? ? i can't remember who that was! can you?

[kaz]

Fantastic
The photos say it all, looks like ya mum n dad had an amazing time, big luv n hugs, wish i could be there with you, miss ya xxxxx

[kaz]

Matts Hat
I must say that as a Milliner myself, Matt, i am sooooo jealous, what an amazing hat you are wearing xx

[Rich]

Patriotic Matty
Aside from the lack of gun and monster truck Matt, I'd say that despite spending 2.5months in Yanksville you look like you are both still shy of a few hundred lbs before you can call yourself truly American - failing that, you should at least be able to polish off a 15lb steak as a starter! Looks like you guys are having an amazing time. I'm not in the slightest bit jealous of course, sitting here at my desk at work, staring out the window at the outside world.......sigh! Why of why did we only go away for 3months.......! Looking forward to hearing the next installment of the Advenures of Matt and Nat soon! Rich and Jen xxx