Sun, skiing and pancakes

The sun was shining in the bright blue sky when we woke up - a perfect start for our vacation. I had my very special breakfast that I always have before skiing, porridge and coffee :D The weather was just awesome so we quickly put our skiing gear on and left for the skiing tracks.

Unfortunately, one pair of the skis that we had was terrible for this weather. I decided to take the challenge and skied with that pair for most of the way even though those skis constatly kept slipping on the tracks. Going uphill was.. ehm.. interesting :D So a stop after 7km of slipping was more than welcome.

We sat for a while in a cozy little cafe and had pancakes and coffee :P There was even some band performing there! My legs had started hurting a bit from all the slipping but I still skied for some 2 km after the break before switching with mom.

Hopefully that lousy pair of skis can be taken care of so that we have a better luck with it tomorrow. I'm not putting those skis on unless there's some improvement to them :D

We're here!

Yesterday afternoon two happy girls had some cookies and hot chocolate at an airport lounge in Helsinki while they were waiting for their flight to leave for Kittilä. Despite some inconveniencies during the flight - babies crying like it's the end of the world and little kids screaming and running around the plane - the girls later landed safely at the airport of Kittilä. They hopped into a taxi and soon reached the skiing resort of Levi, tired but anxiously looking forward to the week filled with winter sports and a little bit of after ski ;)