I'm home now. Have been for a while.

To conclude this blog, I must tell you all I had an AMAZING time and that I am officially a better skier than Dad and will be forever and ever and EVER.

That is all.

xxx

THE X GAMES

So yesterday was a pretty fab day, we all hopped on a coach and went to Tignes (about an hours drive away) to go to the first day of The X Games

In the middle are the massive jumps for the Slope Style event
and on the right is the Super Pipe

We had a little yet painful trek up the hill so we could watch the Slope Style, however I didn't get many pictures as after about 45 minutes the snow started to pour so we headed into town and chilled out in the Bars but here are the 2 decent pictures I got from the event

David & David
(aka Dennis because there are too many Davids here)

Me & Fi

After we sat around for a few hours just chillin' we went up to the pipe to watch the snowboarders qualifying where I took plenty of piccys!

David & me chilling in some deck chairs watching some amateurs do tricks

Hugh, David, Amy & Amy

Was pretty darn cool, however we got cold and it became a little repetitive so we wondered off to find some food and just escape the crowd a little. So we went back to the bar - of course!

We got back to La Rosiere about half 10 so it was straight to bed ready for work today. Hurrah!

And that's about it for now!!

Catch ya' later

xxx

My Wall

So I am EXTREMELY aware of how slack I've been on this blog as it's all very same-y same-y now. 

Skiing has been off the cards for a week now as it's not worth it due to the amount of ice on the slopes. I was walking home from the pub Tuesday night and went down the hill on butt pretty much the entire way home. (Okay, the gin & tonics didn't help, but still).

So apart from that not much has happened, even less than normal due to lack of skiing :/

On a positive note, look at awesome my "Wall of Posters Found in Magazines & Newspapers Left Here By Guests" is. I sit there and flick through old magazines and newspapers let by guests. You can always count on The Sunday Times to provide me with decent posters. It's almost like my wall back home :D

That is all for now :)

xxx

Some snappies from our day off

We had a super relaxing day today. No skiing as were were feeling a little fragile so Me, Fi and Debbie went for a walk and just chilled out in some deck chairs for a while. 

It's been SO nice this week, which means the snow is rather cruddy and was pretty slushy but it does mean that I could happily walk around town in just a hoodie which is rather lush :)

Anyways, here's a few snaps from this afternoon

So yeah, all is hunky-dory here. The sun is shining so much that there have been a couple of avalanches causing bald patches on the mountain which is a bit upsetting but it was bound to happen some time. Loving the sunshine though :D

xxx

I'm Still Alive, Don't Worry!!

Sorry about the lack of updates, as I'm sure you can imagine I've been pretty busy last week. When I wasn't working I was skiing with Mum and Dad. Okay, apart from a couple of days but I am now about to nap in an attempt to regain some of the sleep that I didn't get because of Sunday - bloomin' Transfer Day AGAIN!!!

As well as a visit from the parents, we had to complete a Mid-season Deep Clean so that means that I'm already pretty much half way through! It's absolutely flown by!!!

All is well here in France, absolutely lovely to see the parents and that I got to introduce them to everyone here. The came to our favourite pub on our night off and stayed til it closed at half 1. Even did a couple of toffee vodka shots!!! Sadly they couldn't keep up with the rest of us who were out til about half 5!! Then slept pretty much all of Wednesday hahaa!

Here's a picture that I'm sure you'll all see either via Mum & Dad or Facebook, but this is "Team Brac"

Fiona, Rob et Moi!

I'm sure you'll hear all the gossip from Mum & Dad but here's one of my favourite pictures of the week. It was taken on Saturday in Italia!

David and I being super cool

I've been bugging Jess (one of the childcare staff) for the pictures of our Rat Race from the other week so you can see what we get up to with a bit of organised fun :)

xxx

Drama in Le Braconnier!

So yesterday we'd just sent out main course and one of our guests  went downstairs as she wasn't feeling very well. Her husband gave us her meal to foil up for later when before we knew it Fiona had run back into the kitchen and told us to call an ambulance!!!

Poor woman had fainted at the top of the stairs and fallen down and smacked her head on the wall/floor. Luckily Fiona's mum is a doctor and the owners live upstairs so knew who to call! She's absolutely fine just has a rather nasty black eye but she should be back on the slopes by tomorrow. PHEW!!! 

So yeah, that's a bit of dramatics for ya!

Then after dinner Rob, Fiona and I all sat down with Fiona's family and another family and we all played The Logo Game which was really fun. Mum, Dad we don't play enough board games. I'm buying Trivial Pursuit when I get home.

These are definitely the nicest bunch of guests we've had yet, and there's only 1 really young child so there shouldn't be a load of kids running around singing Gangnam Style like there is EVERY SINGLE WEEK!!!!

As expected, there are a few photos posted onto Facebook of our Cross-dressing Night.

Fiona and me with our sexy moustaches

We also went skiing the other day so here's a piccy for you :)

Me and Fiona. Emma is taking the picture

xxx

Week 7

Tomorrow will be the start of the seventh week I've been away!! Can you believe it!?!? 

Fiona's family are here this week and are staying in our chalet. They're really nice and our transfer day yesterday went swimmingly!

The weather hasn't been too fab recently, especially Saturday and Sunday as the wind had picked up and it just wasn't fun. At all.

I'm afraid I really haven't got much to report, everything has just sort of fallen into place and we have got ourselves an excellent routine and can get out of our chalet by 10 - half ten each morning and before half 9 pretty much every evening which is great as it gives us more time to just chill out in the evenings.

Every Sunday evening there is a theme night at our favourite bar. Last week was "Cross-dressing Night" which was ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS!!! So many guys in tutus and make up. And all us girls had some sort of facial hair drawn on to our faces. 

Last night was "Chav Night" which was just a good excuse to go out wearing sweatpants. Of course we had to be a bit rowdier to fit the characters properly but most of us just sound too posh or nice to be a proper chav. T'was tres amusing, I'm sure pictures will eventually make their way onto Facebook at some point.

ALSO, the other day I decided to take a walk around to try and find Mum & Dad's chalet that they will be staying in, after doing some research of course. 

I FOUND IT!!!

It's a bit of a shame they aren't in a more central area of La Rosiere, but it's an easy walk down to the chalet, just a bit of a pain having to walk up the hill back home. It's quite a way away from the lift so taking the free ski definitely is the best option!

LESS THAN 2 WEEKS NOW!!!!

xxx

Old photo that I finally found!

Finally got my hands on the photo I wanted to show you from our first day off. 

Somehow, SOMEHOW David managed this...

Please don't ask how he managed it, but he is floating. Kinda. 

Not much else to report at the moment I'm afraid. Trevor & Sarah are here safe and sound and very briefly saw them out of the kitchen window as I was cooking children's lunch. Thanks Ma & Pa for the toothpaste :)

xxx

ITALIA!!!

FINALLY MADE OUR WAY OVER TO ITALY!!!

The weather was fantastic today, the sun was out and Fiona, David, Sparky Dave (the maintenance man) and I went over to Italy today which was a really nice change of scenery and knowing that I have now been to Italy is rather cool!

I don't think we chose the best runs to do though as the piste map showed a really long red run which we did but it was pretty much a road that was rather flat and boring but we got David on his first ever black run. And then his second and third! 

On our way back home we bumped into Laura and she, David and me went through the Boarder-cross - which is like motercross but for skiers/snowboarders which was fun but we also went through the Snow Park which was great. Did a few jumps and got pretty high.

Only fell over once and I definitely feel my skiing is improving both speed and technique-wise so I'm very pleased with how today went!

Should be going out for a curry tonight, hope it's a decent one as I have been CRAVING curry for about 2 weeks now but it's just nowhere! Finally found a place that does it though, so yay :)

Back to work tomorrow though :( Oh well!

xxx

Five Weeks Tomorrow

So tomorrow is the 5 week mark since I left and I don't know about you guys but it feels like I've been here ages! We've all really made it a home from home.

Should hopefully be going to a pub quiz tonight which I'm rather excited about as you know, I love me a quiz!

Had my first bottle of Orangina since getting here, how slack is that?!

On Saturday I was awfully clumsy and dropped the biggest saucepan we have on my foot. whilst the second biggest saucepan was inside of it. Luckily I only bruised the bone (self diagnosed, obviously) which was a bit of a struggle to ski with today but I persevered and had a really good couple of hours out, just me and Fiona.

The weather has been non-stop sun for like a week so we're hoping for a bit of snowfall soon.

Fiona and I had a bit of a panic yesterday! Went down to the garage to make sure it was tidy for the new guests to find all our skis, poles and boots missing! What had happened was the childcare staff had been recruited to take all the families' skiis back to the shop for them and had accidentally included our into the load. I wasn't too worried and actually prefer the skiis and boots I have been given now. So yay :)

I'll keep you posted on how well we do in the quiz.

xxx

Photos

So I had some spare time today and the weather was too nice to miss the opportunity to take my camera onto the slopes and take some piccys of the scenery. 

I went by myself as I wanted to go slowly and carefully and knew I'd be stopping often. Don't worry guys, I stuck to the runs I knew and went at a careful pace, no problems whatsoever. The only problem was that it was just a little bit lonely so I only did a few runs but here are some of the sights I saw...

These first 2 are on the main blue run

These are all down the forest run called Seez which is so pretty 

Just me :)

 xxx

Expedition to Bourg

Today was yet another treasured day off, slept in til half 9 which was heaven!

Fiona had to go down to Bourg St-Maurice today to have a blood test for her stomach problems and because the weather was rather terrible. It was cloudy at our level, let alone at the top of the mountain. 

So, instead of hitting the slopes I opted to join Fiona on a little adventure down to Bourg. We weren't able to get a lift and there are no free buses from La Rosiere, so we had to take the chair-lift down. That's right Ladies & Gents, DOWN a chair lift!!

Picture evidence!

So that was a new experience, got a few funny looks and a wolf whistle - what can I say!?

So when we got down the chair lift we were at the bus stop where the free bus picked us up and took us to Bourg St-Maurice which is like the nearest main town. It's an ok place, not very pretty but he had a McDonald's which we may have had lunch at. 

We also went to Intermarche to stock up on supplies as things are definitely cheaper down the mountain. There was a little English section where I purchased Mcvities Ginger Nuts. No chocolate digestives though and the PG tips were super expensive :( 

We then had a slight dilemma of not being able to make it back up to resort as the next bus would've got to the bottom of the lift which would've been closed. So after a mild panic from both Fiona and I, we went to the Tourist Office and the lady let us borrow her phone so we phoned our boss who then got his boss, who was luckily in the bank up the road to help us out. 

She used her immaculate french to get us bus tickets at a discounted price all the way up to La Rosiere. A bus that left in 2 hours and we had very little money on us so we mooched about for a while then caught our bus back and got home about half 7.

It was a really good day, just did an awful lot of walking but survived to tell the tale :)

Update again soon 

xxx 

Happy New Year!!!

Happy 2013 All !!!

Sorry I haven't updated you all in a while it's been super hectic! Fiona's been ill with a stomach thing so we've had to try and do it all just Katy and I which has been rather tough. Deep cleaning a chalet and cooking for 20 with just the 2 of us is harder than it sounds, especially when you have 1 family like one of them. ARGH!! So infuriating, they're just so happy to complain about every little thing.

For example; On Sunday's it's changeover day so it's non-stop work for which they give us a main course that can be left in the oven to cook - slow braised beef casserole which is SO yummy. This particular family complain to Simon that the meal was "slop". We'd been up since half 3 in the morning that morning as well!!! 

But on the bright side, they go home in 5 days and I only have to deal with them for 3 and a bit of those days. Hoorah!

Last night dinner went a little bit wrong. Silly ol' me had put oven on the wrong setting and so was only cooking whatever was on the top shelf as it was on grill. WOOPSY!!!

On a happier note, went out to celebrate the new year last night which was really fun but was rather responsible and got home at 2am ready for my half 6am start. And I was one of the earlier ones to go home!

Shall probably be heading out tonight as it is our day off tomorrow and it's also Amy's birthday. Apparently the weather isn't looking too great tomorrow which is a bummer but shall definitely be hitting up the slopes at least once.

That's all I have to report for now. David is absolutely fine, we we're dancing the night away last night, showing the bar how we do it in Wymondham!!! 

xxx


P.S. Voice Report: 97% back to normal, just the odd croak here and there but I am able to sing along almost as well as I could before. Should make full recovery within the next couple of days

A couple of pictures so you don't forget what I look like