picnic at the church - Wednesday 26th June

church - cant remember how to rotate and finns asleep!

wraps for lunch

Another fine and sunny morning - warm temperatures. Kids walked the course with Martin and Pavel and went back up to the top and by the time they were climbing into their boats the water had dropped half a meter. Shared the course with some of the american team and the Slovenian juniors. Our kids were doing quarters and after four runs each lots of improvements were seen by the coaches.  Came back up to the hotel to get changed and loaded up into the vans for a trip up to the top of the hill overlooking Solkan and the surrounding area. On top of the hill is a huge and very beautiful church - Sveta Gora - we took our lunch with us and set up the picnic tables underneath the trees in a graveled courtyard with views all the way to the Adriatic Sea and the coast of Italy and Slovenia.... your kids will no doubt describe all this in detail in their correspondence to you ...... they listened quietly and briefly while we told them a little of this areas troubles during the first world war and were suitably impressed by the bullet holes in the side of one of the oldest church buildings. Loaded back into the vans and headed back down the very steep and zig zag road stopping to look at a huge shell casing fired from a ship miles off shore.  

Haylee, Robin and Jess

Got ready for afternoon training and then the usual afternoon showers arrived, followed by the deluge, then the lightening started and it rained through out the entire session. Kids were ok but Martin didn't take his umbrella because he didn't believe Pavels weather forecast .... a technical session with a couple of cameo C2 performances by Finn and Marcus and Matthew and Tommy kept the crowd entertained .... not sure that they will receive top billing however -

Dan and Luke

Finn and Marcus 

Once again it was a wet dinner time and space really is at a premium - tonights dinner was eaten hallway style - the tiled floor was a bonus.

just look at this sideways - its really late and we are seriously loosing  the plot.