Falls Ck - Snowgums

 Wednesday 25

We are at Falls Creek staying at a chalet called Snowgums. The kids have been taken away and fed along with all the other kids. The adults are sitting in the lounge room, the kids have started arriving from their meal and most have gravitated into the games room. Jemma has come over to see the photos as I select one for this email. The chalet is supposed to be ski in ski out but this is a bad year and so we have walk in walk out. Luckily it is only a short walk to the ski lift that takes us right to the place where the kids have ski lessons. Makes it very easy in the mornings. Henry (Frank's Brother) has been a God send. Henry takes Marcus and they get a few runs in before ski school. Frank tries to get Dan and Chris ready while Megan takes Jemma to child care.

Today we had great news. Dan, who yesterday could hardly stand up on his skis, went down a green run called Drovers Dream and took a ride back up on the chair lift.

I am surprised by the quality of the skiing. They have had very little natural snow this year. We have been saved by the extensive snow making that goes on each night. There are plenty of green and blue runs available for the average skier. The pro skiers amongst us (Andrew and Catherine) would of course turn their noses up at the lack of black runs but for the rest of us there is quite a bit of variety.

Should you consider a skiing holiday you need to prepare yourselves for a few surprises and all of them involve money… lots of it!
Chicken burger $16.50. Milo bar $2.60. Doughnuts $2 each!. Basically if you go out for meal, entrée's around $15 and mains at $30. There is one thing that is free. That is the curtsey bus that takes you from one establishment that has relieved you of cash to another that will happily take the remainder.