Under the tree the gifts enthrall,
But the nicest present of them all
Is filling our thoughts with those who care,
Wanting our Christmas joy to share.

To you, whom we're often thinking of,
We send our holiday joy and love.

By Joanna and Karl Fuchs www.poemsource.com

We continued the skiing season in the snow proof Dolomiti Ski area with more than 1200 slopes between altitudes 1500-3269 meters. This time we had company of our Finnish friends Mirja, Jukka, Pertti and Leena. We made excursion of the famous Sella Ronda (the ski circuit) for both directions. Last evening we found "The" Apres-Ski place called L'Murin near by our hotel.

Mika also loaded some videos by car of Passo Gardena: the west side and the east side.

We had a few days of downhill skiing fun in Hintertux and Kaprun glaciers in Austria, both about 2,5 hours from Munich by car.  Mika managed to fix an HD camera to a tip of a ski and a ski helmet, see the attached picture from a truly unique perspective and test video footages uploaded to Youtube: an HD video camera fixed to a tip of the ski (the video camera drops from the ski at 50 seconds)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKRmtnTnRS0 and the HD video camera attached to a ski helmet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLwumiu6H6s