the week of redemption!

maybe that's being a bit dramatic, but seriously, after all these visitors i was SO READY to get to France and spend some time skiing and seeing a change of scenery. mainly seeing a change of scenery, cause as i said before, i'm not so much a skiier.

we left for France on a Thursday morning and flew into Geneva, Switzerland and then made the one hour drive to Chamonix, the resort town that the family has a house in. at night we couldn't see anything, so i was a little disappointed to get there and have no idea of what it looked like. however, the next morning, this is what i woke up to:

the view from my room

down the little road that the house was on

beautiful, gorgeous mountains everywhere

see the two little people skiing down the hill? the farthest is Kasper, the nearest Sixten - note his wide-legged snowplow stance...his legs always hurt cause of it :)

kasper, the speed demon. he was always the first one down on the black slopes

this was actually IN Chamonix...i only saw it once, unfortunately

the family's chalet. it was BEAUTIFUL inside

a view of the valley below

these kids get so much attention wherever they go, seriously. they're too cute, i think

sixten, the youngest skiier in the family to ski the black piste

klara having a Klara Moment - she freaks out when she can't help herself...in this situation, apparently couldn't get up cause she fell

a picture of klara trying to 'wear' her backpack. i don't know, it was funny...

So, that's the extent of my pictures. there's more, but in all honesty, we really didn't do much but ski and eat/sleep. i didn't leave the house much, only to go for occasional walks...it was a very low key trip. we're actually going back in July, so it should be interesting to see it with no snow. they got around 100cm of snow when we were there! it was crazy. made the skiing great, though.

i'm all caught up now on my pictures, FINALLY...but i'll have more coming up cause this Friday i leave for BARCELONA!! it's my Christmas present from the family and i'm going with my two American girls, Philly and Nikki. it should be crazy fun...and a wonderful escape from the 40's-50's-ish weather we've been having here. believe me, i can't WAIT!