Awesome Baking!

Whilst Ellie and I have been swanning off skiing, Isobel and Julie have been enjoying some Sundays at home, baking some fabulous cakes for the famished skiers on their return!  Here is a selection.

Isobels Strawberry Daiquiri Cupcakes

Isobel's Whole Lemon Cake (as per Mary Berry)

Julie's Chocolate Cupcakes

Isobels Lemon Swiss Roll

As you can see, you have to go skiing in this family just to make room for all the cake!

Awesome Skiing!

Today was the last day of training for the Ellie with Gordon Skiers.............and what a day to finnish off!  Awesome conditions.  Despite losing a lot of snow over the last week or so there was still an excellent base up on the higher runs and the fresh snow of Friday and Saturday freshened the runs up beautifully.

Ellie and I were up at 8.15 so time for a few warm up runs before club started at 9am.  Here is a video of Ellie having a quick warm up.  Don't be taken in by the weather, it was gorgeous sunshine only 5 minutes before then the snow shower came through!

After that it was up to the upper runs on Corrie Fionne and Glas Maol, pretty windy up high but the kids skied everywhere, on piste , off piste, over cornices etc whilst us parents just let rip on the pistes, stunning snow conditions and beautiful sunshine.

After lunch the coaches set up a skier cross  race course for the kids to race down, three at a time, great sport and some impressive skiing.

We finished off across the road with Ellie getting a timed run down a race course that had been set up in the GS piste.  Then a final run that involved skiing over a cornice to get across to the Tiger, seriously steep and Ellies first black run, and it has to be said she probably skied it better than her father!  Then it was off to the cafe for a well earned cup of tea for me and hot chocolate for Ellie.

Exhausted Girls at The End of The Day!

Sunday Skiing

Skiing this weekend was back to Glenshee as the skier-cross racing was on there.  Ellie wasn't racing (thankfully!) but was training.  No pictures of Ellie skiing this week, she disappeared off with her pals and coach, and when she did ski with e over lunchtime I had all my work cut out just keeping up with her!  She is getting seriously fast and her turns are improving no end.

Ellie second from left!

 Weather was fabulous although it did cloud over a little in the afternoon.  Still stacks of snow, especially at the higher levels and a nice sprinkling of new snow to freshen up all the runs.

At home meanwhile Isobel and Julie went off to see The Book Thief at the cinema and thoroughly enjoyed it.  And for pudding tonight?  Isobel's finest Strawberry Daiquiri cupcakes! Heaven!!

Hockey Tournament

A great result in the hockey tournament this morning, Isobel was keeping goal for Robert Gordons B team today in a round robin tournament against Albyne, St Margarets, Cults and Grammar along with Robert Gordons A team.

The end result was Robert Gordons A won with 3 wins and to draws, including a win against their own B team.  Coming in to the last match between Cults and Albyne Robert Gordons B team were in second place with 1 win and 3 draws BUT if either Cults or Albyne won then they would leapfrog over the B team into second place.  It was a nail biting 30 minutes with the combined Robert Gordons cheering on whichever team was defending in the hope of a 0-0 draw.  They were not disappointed!

So a great morning and a very happy Isobel with a silver medal and the school qualifies for the Finals of the Scottish Schools Championships in Glasgow.