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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Mom and Dad's visit to Scotland...

Here are a couple of pictures from Mom and Dad Hartnett's trip to Scotland including a couple with Mum and Dad Murray at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh.


Piperdam (where our wedding reception was held) -





Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh.



Pretending they have more hair than they really do...



Forth Rail Bridge, Edinburgh.

Saturday, March 01, 2008

Ski Italia....


Dave's "war wound"



Jen on her way down the red at Presolana.


Dave doing ????



Dave - Presolana

Dave mastering his parallel turns.






At the top of Monte Pora mountain. About to tackle the longest red run on the mountain.




Monte Pora.




Jen parallelling her way down the red runs in Presolana.



At the very top - before we realised that the tow up with the sign saying "experts only" really meant it!

Had a lovely time in Italy. We were up in the mountains about an hour from Milan at two very small resorts. Just enough snow, bit icy but improved as the day went on. Beautiful weather - note i'm skiing without a jacket!! Great food (although we had no idea what we were eating as nobody spoke any English and our Italian phrase book was pretty useless. Flight home unfortunately was a bit crazy. We've had gales in Scotland so there were mental side winds coming in to land at Prestwick (west coast by the beach) so plane was everywhere and folk screaming. I think it actually topped that bad transatlantic flight a year ago! The flight before us burst a tyre on landing and after us everything was diverted to Edinburgh or delayed. All in all a great 4 days away though. Hope you like the photos!