hail storms and training don't mix - Monday 25th June

The day started well with cooler calm weather - the breakfast buffet continues to stump Daniels attempts at conquering it ..... kids all eating well and settling into good routines after the long travelling time. Everyone headed to the course to warm up and discovered that the hydroelectric dam upstream was releasing a fair bit more water down and the level was way up. Some paddlers took this change in flow better than others but after one run they all seemed very comfortable on it. Today they were doing thirds, essentially splitting the course in three with a stop at each section then roaring through it with a coach and a video camera trained on them. This was all going very well for the first few runs until Solkan was hit by a very dramatic thunder and lightning storm, then hail and then torrential rain. Wise European heads called the kids off the water and sure enough it got a lot worse. Some of the South Islanders see so little of this kind of weather we had trouble getting them inside.

 Home for lunch inside in one of the hotel lounges ( don't worry, we cleaned up the mess before the housemaids found us) and video review squashed into Pavel and Martins tiny lounge area half at a time.

By the afternoon technical session on the river the weather had dried up and by tea time we all had chicken and vegetable pasta on the patio outside Martin and Pavel's room. Another fine tuning of foam and fittings in boats and now quiet time before a few heading out for an evening jog. Robin and Deahna ran to Italy and back before tea.

 Martin and Pavel have everything running well with the kids training, and Wendy has already put through a massive amount of washing along with  shopping trips and cooking....looks like its going to be lots of one pan meals.  



Dinner outside the apartment - one of the vans in the background .......

the last of the boat padding out