Kids' Skiing lesson

While it's still the height of summer here, complete with temperatures in the high 10s, and occasionally consecutive hours of sunshine, we've found our refuge in Snowworld. At least for the little while that Kirsten and Finn had their first ever skiing lesson.

Snowworld is the Netherlands' own Dubai-esque indoor skiing wunderland, snow and all. It's a 30 minute drive from where we live. It's got three pistes, and five lifts, and is -5 Celsius. Not quite Austria yet, but certainly a big hit with our tropical offspring.

Kirsten was lucky enough to be the only one in her class, so her instructor guided her up and down the hill, trying out a real skiing skill or two. Finn's class was twice as big, and both boys ended up jumping, throwing balls, and giving high-fives to their instructor, all the while staying upright and going down the baby hill.

What impressed Kirsten most that day was that she crashed into a snowboarder. What did Finn like most about skiing? The sled ride at the end!

Milestone!

Or actually the first of many many milestones. Today Finn decided it was time for his trainerwheels to come off! So now he's racing around after his sister through the carfree area on our block. Kirsten found out the hard way that the leaves that had blown down over the past two rainy days are too slippery to ride on, but at the same time she showed Finn how to get back on the horse, even if it still hurts. A good and timely lesson: he needed it less than five minutes after.



So we hit the biketracks straight away.



Ironically we spent the first weeks over here in NL madly chasing enough suitable bike child seats to get our family around in. Now we're finally more or less sorted for that, we have two kids with absolutely no intention whatsoever of ever jumping in one of those again. But then again, let's just wait until we get some headwind one day, surely they'll be back hiding behind mom and dad's backs ;-)

Whichever way, we'll be on our bikes passing many more milestones.