The big day finally arrives when I decide to try snowboarding. I’ve hired boots and borrowed Kate’s snowboard (thanks Kate!). We have a lesson booked for four of us (me, Soph, Kate and Sam) at 12.30pm and we are too scared to try it beforehand so we sit in a restaurant at the top of the gondola and eat crepes instead.
Our instructor Julien is very patient with us and takes time to get us warmed up and understanding our board, bindings and the names for all the different bits. We then practice moving on the board with only one foot strapped in and our other foot resting on the board. I am goofy by the way! That means I have my right foot forward.
We then learn an exercise called Falling Leaves which involves traversing across the slope facing one direction and then changing direction by looking the opposite way and changing your weight - like a pendulum.
After our lesson we practice for a couple of hours, trying to avoid all the beginner skiers and children on the nursery slope. I am taken down by a mother and her 4 year old son and we all lie on the snow laughing.
I look at other boarders practicing their turns and I wonder if I’ll ever get the knack of this. I can’t even seem to get up when I’m facing downhill. I feel very unfit and I don’t think I’ve ever fallen over so much in my life!
We stop at Bar Robinson on the way home for a few well deserved Mützigs however I have to have a week lie down when I get in as a result.
Dinner tonight is Fish Pie mark two. On the plus side, it has scallops in it! On the negative side it is a lot runnier than our first fish pie. It is still delicious though and we manage to eat two dishes of it.
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