Borovets Day 2

Today we woke up at 7:30am. Yep it’s our holiday and we're up early. Straight into the ski gear and down to breakfast of fried egg, fried bread and sausage with a cup of tea with no milk and an apple juice. Them of to BJ's bar for the welcome meeting. There was a load of us so it took forever just to get our passes and ski pack. As soon as we got our pack we walked to Rila Ski Depot 1 to yet again wait to be fitted with skis and boots. On the way up to Rila1 we bumped into Krassi (our instructor from last year). This year my boots fitted perfectly first time but then they are Solomon's. Mum had to get hers changed. Then off to meet our instructor for this season, unfortunately we didn't have Krassi because he had a private lesson. We were asked if we had skied before and we said yes, then we had to have a test to see how competent we were on skis. Lets just say me and mum are now intermediates. We were then split into groups. We have Val. He's 52 and has been skiing at Borovets for 24 years. He's not a bad instructor. He took us up the nursery slope a couple of times. Unfortunately the major green and blue ski runs are closed because of lack of snow. We stopped for a break of a bottle of water. A couple more runs then onto lunch of tuna and cheese on toast. We did a couple more runs. Unfortunately we didn't get too many runs in because of the queues for the button lifts. We did a few more runs without the group and then the pain set in, so time to call it a day. Back to the hotel to relax for a bit. Then a shower. More relaxing before dinner of meatball soup, potato grattan, pork and peas and lamb and herbs with dessert of pastries and a kiwi jelly with real kiwis. Back to the room to just chill. Nothing much on the tele so we were both snoozing by 9pm. I woke and watched the snow ploughs on the TV because it's linked to a web cam of the nursery slope it started to snow a little but not so much that you'll notice in the morning. For some reason I couldn't get back to sleep so I watched Flying Heavy Metal presented by Bruce Dickinson on my iPod. Then I finally got back to sleep at 12am.