Bass challenge and good company

Hi Everyone
So this week has been slightly different in the Alps. As in January we had 10 days of solid snow fall and freezing weather, we are now going through 10 days of solid rain as it is so warm! The slopes are still very white and when it stops will be great to ski on as high up it will be powder but town is looking very spring like and we don’t have to dig the car out anymore!
Last Wednesday we had the annual Bass Challenge Ski Race. Host Savoie put in two teams, one pink and one orange. The orange team consisted of Andy, Joe and Sylvie and the pink team was Ant, Katie and me! There was a break in the weather for the afternoon and we ended up just skiing in our t-shirts!

The orange team performed very well and came out in second place. There was a lot of competition within ourselves especially Joe against Ant and Andy against me. Ant and I tried to race backwards as well, turns out it’s quite tricky doing slalom backwards. The Bass ski instructors gave us all a great afternoon.

On Tuesday after snowboarding this was going past the front door! Ant decided to go sledging...on his board!

Last week was very quiet work wise for us all. We skied hard but also got to relax well, it was like being on holiday for us! Friday was a brilliant day weather wise and we had Man Day + Becky! Andy, Joe, Ant and I skied over to Champoussin to Chez Gabby for some goulash soup. It was amazing, served in a bread roll and we just about finished the lot!

Saturday night we drove around to our friends apartment in Abondance which is a little down on the far French side of the Portes du Soleil. There was many of us for pre dinner drinks and had a good catch up with all.
One of the doorstep ski guys who fit our guests with rental skis is a DJ in town. Tuesday night we went out to a bar that he was playing in. Had a great laugh, saw some others out and about, played some air hockey and pool.
By coincidence a friend’s daughter from back home had chosen to get married in a hotel yesterday which was at the top of Nyon, where we live! It was great to see people from back home and despite the weather they had great fun. The bride and her Dad skied down the run into the hotel dressed in their wedding dress and morning suit which was great to watch, then quickly changed their ski boots for elegant wedding shoes and enjoyed the day.

Speak soon Bex xx