Sunday, 20 April 2014
DL 402
All waiting for our flight to Heathrow. Seven lucky students are in 1st class! No staff!
DL 402 lands 8.30. The QM Snowpatrol 2014 is back in the UK.
Just waiting for our coach.
We are now leaving London Heathrow and expect to be at Queen Mary's High School on time.
Saturday, 19 April 2014
JFK and then London
Well we are here!
Security is all done and we have an hour or so and we will be boarding our flight home to the UK.
What a brilliant experience we have all had. Thanks to everyone for making this QM Snowpatrol trip just perfect.
QM go to the top of the Empire State Building
After a nice stroll around Front street in the sunshine we are off to the Empire State Building to get a different perspective on NYC.
Several of us are keen to see the Chrysler Building. Photos to follow.
Nearly at the lift to the 80th floor then1 more lift to the 86th floor observation deck.
South Street Seaport
After an awesome cruise on the Hudson were are now off to the seaport for some lunch and more retail therapy!
Hard Rock
What an awesome meal! Music atmosphere, simply a great last night stateside for the QM Snowpatrol.
Friday, 18 April 2014
NYC
After some bargains and culinary indulgences, we have left Danburyfair and are now entering the state of New York. Tonight we will be taking a meal at The Hard Rock Cafe and walking through Time Square.
Road Trip - Pit stop - South of Portland
We have just had our first pit stop. the students have stocked up on snacks and have possibly overdosed on special M&M's, Mint and Birthday Cake! The coffee was good too!
Our ETA with the Mall is 14.00 EDT so I am sure we will have another pit stop on the way!
Road Trip - Are we nearly there yet!?
Road Trip Update - South of Boston
We are doing well on our long road trip. We have about 100 miles to go to the Mall at Danbury.
Goodbye to the loaf
The final leg of our ski tour is about to start. We have a 6.00 breakfast and then a road trip to NYC. The route will take in several states on the east coast. We will be stopping for plenty of retail therapy. A big thank you to everyone at Sugarloaf for making the end of our tour fantastic.
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Thursday, 17 April 2014
Day 5 - Fancy Dress
The final ski day
Fancy Dress
A beautiful day for our final ski at the loaf
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| Good morning from the loaf (06.35 EDT -11.35 BST) |
After another early breakfast at 7.30am, the QM Snowpatrol headed off to their rooms to prepare themselves for a day in fancy dress.
The standards were high again this year. I am pleased to report that all the students have had a fabulous day skiing on some good snow. Everyone is now off the mountain relaxing, hot tubbing and showering for our evening meal and presentations.
Ski photos and videos of the day
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| Winnie the Pooh and friends |
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| Mickey & Minnie |
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| Banana on skis! |
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| Leprechaun! |
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| Croc and tiger |
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| Bedtime! |
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| Where's Wally |
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| Cow on skis - Moo! |
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| Mario Bros |
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| Andy the splat! |
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| Cody and Smudge |
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| Fancy Dress! |
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| Red Panda, Unicorn, Where's Wally and Dinosaurs |
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| Snowball AKA Sir Milky |
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| Leprechaun on a lift |
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Mad scientists 
Piglet takes to the mountain
      
'The sleeping Indian'
Presentation evening
Q.M Snow Patrol are now world famous as they are now featured on the official Sugarloaf web page, Flikr feed and Facebook feed. The patrol met up at 7 in one of the hotels lovely conference rooms for their presentation evening. The following awards were made to:
Stylish skier - Dominic Boniface
Poser of the week - Solomon Clarke
Best hat - Mrs. Wood
Most spectacular wipe-out - Ellie Williams
Most outfits - Sophie Sadera
Biggest bruise - Jay (The Gambler) Sahnan
Reddest nose - Eve Jones
Lift master - The Bickley clan
Most wipe-outs - Connor Butler
Best beginner - Luke Curtiss
Most improved skier - Amanda Dhliwayo
Speed demon - Steve Hill
Panda eyes - Abigail Phillips
Most psychodelic outfit - Ben Fortes-Mayer
Best novice - Anika Najran
'George' of the week - Paramveer Bhachu
Most persistent skiers - Ana and Isabel Curry
Super smiler - Madeline Fisher
'Dancing on Snow' champion - Naomi Fallon
Most helpful - Hannah Watts
Best fancy dress - Grace Cadman and Courteney Griffiths as 'Mickey and Minnie'
Most improved intermediate - Bradleigh Smith
Most consistent skier - Matthew Smith
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QMHS Ski legend 2014 - Kayleigh Hill
Kayleigh has skied with her family many times before joining QM; however, when she got the chance to ski on the QM Snowpatrol in year 8 she did. That was 6 year's ago and she has been on every trip since. This is lucky and special, as Kayleigh moved to the senior years she has also been very helpful in organising the blog and cutting videos together, for which we are all really grateful. Kayleigh is only one of a few girls to be presented with this award. Kayleigh has skied at the following resorts:-
2009 - Northstar-at-Tahoe, CA, USA
2010 - Jungfrau, Switzerland
2011 - Crystal Mountain, WA, USA
2012 - Waterville Valley, NH, USA
2013 - Claviere, Italy
2014 - Sunday River & Suagrloaf, ME, USA
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Although everyone has not had an award the 36 student have all been amazing and have developed their skiing to another level so well done to everyone.
The way the day began...
Mr. Curry's use of the golden shirt saw his skiing go from good to the stratospheric.
Next... road trip to New York City.
I hope you have all enjoyed our ski experience and remember as Warren Miller would say... 'If you don't ski this year you will be one year older when you do'
Next up for the QM Snowpatrol is the Spanish Pyrenees - Cerler
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