As you can imagine, I am not short on material for a bloopers blog. Skiing, especially when I am involved, can be rather entertaining. The first two bloopers however are more related to the extreme exhaustion that travel and skiing lead to.
1. I’m at a different train station
Bless her little heart, when we first arrived in Sahoro everyone was exhausted, Miss 13 in particular was a write off. After dinner and hiring our skis the children went to bed and Mum and Dad went to the bar. When we returned to the room an hour or so later, Miss 13 was sound asleep fully clothed.
I tried to wake her to get her changed but she said:
“Stop Mum I’m at a different station”
I said “What type of station?”
She said “Train station”
At that point I decided perhaps she should just sleep in her clothes.
2. Sleepy fingers
Mr Travel Bee has a habit of falling asleep with his phone in hand. Somehow this week while fast asleep he has managed to share someone else’s post and comment on it. The comment was gibberish, we assume his finger was resting on the predictive text button. Fortunately I was awake and saw it a few minutes after it was posted and was able to wake him to delete it (did anyone see it?!!).
If that wasn’t bad enough, the next night he managed to open the app for our car (at home in Australia) and pop the bonnet!! This trick he has performed before and it is quite skilful because the app has multiple messages that ask you to confirm. He somehow manages to accept them all!
3. It was the photographer’s fault
Everyone that knows me, knows skiing isn’t one of my strong points. There are endless stories of me falling off chair lifts and falling in bushes. On day two things had been going quite well. I was having lessons and felt like I was finally understanding what I was doing wrong and making steps to correct it.
On this particular run I was pleased with how my turns were coming along and felt like it had it all together. As we came to the bottom I looked up and noticed the Club Med photographer crouched at the bottom. That was enough for me to loose all composure and he got some great shots as I splattered myself on the snow right in front of him!
4. Tree hugger
For this trip Master 16 decided to switch from snowboarding to skiing. He started off day one in beginners and worked his way up. On the morning that he caught up with me in Club 2 he was full of himself at breakfast. He was telling me how amazing his parallel turns were and that he would have no trouble keeping up with me. I said “just you wait until you hit the runs off chair 2 for the first time, they have some steep sections”.
Turns out there was one particular tree that was a magnet to him. The first two times he attempted the run (off chair 2) he came around the first bend too sharply and found himself careering straight at a tree. The funny part, was the way he hugged this flimsy, bendy tree. It wasn’t a great deal of help to support him and he ended up in the snow.
5. Mum snow diving
After not falling since the photographer incident, day six we had a lot of fresh snow and this meant things felt very different. I had many falls, some more spectacular than others but these two were the most memorable.
The first was right at the start of the lesson. We had just come up the button lift and were all lining up to hear our instructions for the run. As usual we were to pass behind Omer and line up down hill. I passed behind, hit a lump of snow and basically just sat down. I had snow down my pants before I even attempted a run! Great start.
The second one Omer had just explained that the closer we kept our skis, the more control we had in powder. I was being very studious and tried to follow his directions. Instead I managed to slightly cross the front of my skis and spectacularly face planted it in the snow. It was quite a difficult fall to recover from and involved a lot of rolling around and skis in the air. As it happens, it was not long after this picture was taken.
6. Go Pro fails
Not completely reviewed yet but there is a lot of footage of Master 16s skis. There is also a particularly funny clip of him asking his father whether he should just ‘tuck and go’, before a whole lot of swear words, suddenly everything turns white and there is a loud static type noise…….. A short time later you see a glove wiping the lens clean.
TTB
The Travel Bee 