Andy's birthday present to me last year was a skiing trip as part of this holiday so we headed out to Mount Sunapee in New Hampshire (state motto "Live Free or Die": a wee bit scary?) for two days skiing.
Unfortunately there's no photo or video evidence of this so you'll just have to take our word for the fact that we are both incredibly graceful, brave and talented skiers.
(To put that in context we started on the nursery slopes on the first day - only graduating to the dizzy heights of red slopes when we'd re-found our skiing feet. So, in my case, if you count splayed legs and flailing arms as graceful then I was definitely that.)
We had an absolutely amazing time. Nothing beats the feeling of flying downhill shifting your weight to swing through turns (and nothing's worse than the moment you realise that you've just lost control!) Skiing's much more fun to do than to read about though so I'll leave it at that, but thank you Andy for an AMAZING birthday present.
