Beautiful February sunshine and perfect ski conditions were the elixers of euphoria! on this very frigid day!  The 40+ students in this group were a fragment of the over 200 students from Land O' Lakes School who took part in cross country ski lessons with me this year.  Each year, over the past several years, I have instucted hundreds of students.  My students have been of every age from about 4 years old to in their 70's!  They have been from England, California and even Norway! Some lessons have been done one-on-one while,  some with couples,  small groups and luckily only a few others were as large as this group!  The large size of this group was matched only by the size of the students hearts and the strength of their characters.  They tried hard, played hard, they smiled, they encouraged each other.  Although only a few arrived as skiers, they certainly all left as skiers.