Skating Carnival 2008

The Brentwood Skating Carnival program tonight included solos by both of Rustle's Girls this year. I'm choked with pride. I will have to let the videos speak for themselves...

Super Sarah

Sarah's competition schedule is rather hectic, but this one race is worth highlighting. The Lake Louise group competed as a team in an all-mountain event at WestCastle Mountain, near Pincher Creek. It was a very fun event, or so she and her dad reported, as the team raced in GS and slalom events, but also in moguls, skating, trees, terrain and a jump. Dad was a volunteer at the jump event, verifying the distance each kid jumped.

Was he impressed, then, when his one and only Sarah went big for this event. She jumped a whopping 8.5 m! It was enough to give her first place amongst all the girls at the event, and probably 5th overall.

The proud moments (and the misnamed certificate, too).

Alison at the Summit

Alison rode the platter to the Summit of Whitehorn Mountain (if you click on that link, it's at the peak where the red arrow points to "The Ultimate Steeps") and made some absolutely gorgeous turns down Whitehorn One today during her training session. Mom was there with her trusty cell phone to capture some grainy memories of Alison's first ever trip to the peak of Louise.

Time for an update

And when I say, "Time for an update," I mean I actually have some time to update. We've been busy, but there isn't a lot of photographic evidence of our hectic lives. Not that anyone is interested in a photographic description of driving to the arena, or to school, or to the ski hill....

So, here's a few shots of girls skating...




at the ski hill....



and in the car, just for good measure!

The Mauros come to Town

We had a fabulous weekend with the cousins who popped into Calgary for a quick weekend visit. We went swimming and skiing and tore up the basement playing like mad.

Jack and Lucas even got to take a gondola ride up Whitehorn Mountain and skied all the way down! Jack was an excellent student for Instructor Uncle Bob and Lucas was making lots of fine turns all afternoon. Little Sammy got to try things out in the Learning Area too.

Here's a couple of photos of the group at the top of the hill where the gondola lets off. Woo Hoo!