We had planned to do some tandem skydiving today, and we were really looking forward to it, but after several postponments, it became evident that that weather wasn’t going to play ball.

That left us with the one attraction we hadn’t visited yet which wasn’t weather dependent.

Puzzling world…

It’s full of puzzles of all sorts, optical illustions, etc

And last, but not least is a giant maze that took over an hour to solve.

The afternoons entertainment for the kids was the local movie threatre. It was small and very old school, and even had ‘intermission halfway through the movie, which caused a mass exodus to back the snack counter.

All up, another good day.

We chose to do another day of skiing at Cadrona, but the conditions were a lot different this time.

It was snowing all day, with lots of powdery snow, because a foot (30cm) of snow had fallen the night before.
Visibility was quite limited in these conditions, which caused all these new technical issues for us.

Although the course down the mountain had marker flags to show where to go, sometimes you could only see the next one, but you couldn’t make out the contour of the land even with snow goggles on.
I needed to focus on those marker flags, because that was my only point of reference to know if I was actually moving.

You couldn’t see the ground you were on, so you had to ski by ‘feel’. Occassionally we got it wrong and came to a stop on a flat part or ran into the rough.

Anyway, my youngest daughter persevered on ski’s and got used to it. In the end, she simply followed other skier’s around.

I was using a snowboard, which had it’s own issues because sometimes I’m facing back up the hill and can’t see a thing, also any turns were done essentially blindfolded.

I kept going on a snowboard (sort of) with the occassional unscheduled stop. I was thankful for the soft snow, because landing on my ass all the time never does me any good.

Anyway, here’s a picture of a snowman..