Lucy and Edita arrive today but they cut it very fine for starting their snowboarding lessons. They originally planned to be in Morzine by 10am however Edita texts at 10.25 to say their transfer is just leaving Geneva! Amazingly they manage to make it to their lesson only 20 minutes late, partly due to the fact that Adam drives them to the gondola.
I’ve taken the day off from skiing as my back pain from yesterday has got a lot worse – I can hardly walk! Lucy and Edita give me a pile of presents to open before they leave for the slopes which helps ease my misery at having to stay home. I open a lovely package from Kate, Anna and Fran which includes a funky yellow and blue striped hoody (reversible), a grey hoody and a the biggest grey pompom ever (made by Kate to attach to my helmet). Everyone in the week 1 gang had bobble ski hats and I felt left out, however as I wear a helmet to ski there was little point me buying a bobble hat. Kate came up with the ingenious solution for attaching a bobble to my helmet.
Lucy and Edita have given me some scented soap in a pretty retro box and a book on evolution. I’ve hardly read at all while in the Alps. Danny Wallace’s Yes Man is about it (and a trashy novel that was in the chalet).
Dad goes up the mountain with Abby and skis Morzine on his own today. It is a beautiful day and he doesn’t get as tired today as he is able to take more breaks when I’m not there pushing him to ski more.
Tonight Dad makes chestnut and mushroom stew with mashed potato. He planned this meal from the UK as I told him we had 3 vegetarians this week (to Adam’s horror) however when Lucy and Edita arrive they announce that they might eat meat this week!
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