janey: hello brothers and sisters. Today has benn prettymajorly epic. Lantu almost screamed but pulled out last minute. We spent the day on the piste! Meesh: we are all now pro-snowboarders I may say and tomorrow we will have the aching bones and bruised bottoms to prove it! Lanty: first time on the slopes and it was amazing. I was expecting it to be good but the fresh snow, stunning scenery and great runs made for a 10/10 day. The rest of the trip has a lot to...

Janey: hello from the snowiest place in the world it seems. We have waddled about all afternoon in this little bubble of snow. The visibility is so bad that it's like we're the only ones in the world, we've been jumping in drifts so high and we walked up to the Olympic ski jump. We'll go right up to it tomoro when we go... Skiing! Woo woo! Can't write anymore as I'm on panty's iPhone and my fingers are too fat! Love to all and sundry xxx

Meesh: hallo ma darlinks!! As you can see we are currently in Oslo, after spending a night in the Swedish town of Orebro. We were quite overjoyed to find that Orebro had some real snow (rather than the fake stuff we've had up until now!), although alas not much else. Apart from the most amazing frozen lake we've ever seen - miles and miles of snowfields and little kiddly-winks playing ice hockey in a specially cleared area. The hostel was a bit creepy although I ...