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So it happened again! In the space between two mountains, we enjoyed the yellow glow of a huge full moon while driving home last Sunday night. It was the icing on the weekend which featured a yummy chocolate mousse birthday cake covered in a giant macaroon, accompanied by shots glasses of delicious miniature fruit salad, two sparklers and a lot of ridiculous laughs.
We celebrated Marta’s birthday (albeit a bit late) in the French Alps with Marta (of course), Maciek, Kate and Fadi. For good measure, Rajitha visited us from Monday to Wednesday back in Frankfurt, so we only missed Laura and Justin from the old cheese farm. Catching-up with Raji these days was really great. We talked a lot and the visit went too fast as usual. So over the weekend it was very easy to have a nostalgic time with the gang since we stayed at “La Ferme de bon Papa”. It was no Fromagerie de Pere Noel, but it was a perfect little French B&B near Mont Blanc.
We arrived late Friday night, but managed to have a good laugh over truck nuts and tea. Ahhh, aren’t friends great? So that set the tone for the weekend and set Maciek off on a fantastic pooh-pooh tangent. I said hilarious already right?
On Saturday, M&M headed out stinking early to start their 3rd day of skiing (they arrived 2 days earlier). Kate, Fadi, E and I were slow pokes enjoying a leisurely breakfast whilst humoured by a zombie version of Fadi at the ‘breakfeast’ table. Breakfast was a feast indeed! We had home-made everything! Bread, cake, jams, yoggi’s etc. etc. The yoghurt was the best, but we truly enjoyed sampling the varieties of jams.
We eventually made it up the gondola at about 11:30, where we met up with M&M. K&F tackled the smaller slopes, CyE&Marta went for the red runs (E venturing to the blues after warming-up) and Maciek attacking the black runs. It was a lot of fun. I was especially happy that I could actually snowboard (after 10+years of exaggerated maneuvers and discomfort) ~ all it took was renting the right sized boots!! Next time, I’ll go for the non-stinky ones cuz man, it was really poooofy!
Anyone looking for a snowboard? Great condition, size 43-44 boots? Really awesome step-in bindings!!!
That evening we had some birthday Champagne. It was delicious! Marta got drunk on 1 glass and me, on 1.5. We were hysterical (at least I think we were!!) Haha! I’m pretty sure Kate was a bit drunk too since she didn’t seem to be as up-to-date on her celebrity gossip (i.e. 10 years en retard) hehe! Then after Marta opened some prezzies we went out for a really nice dinner. The meal was delicious and the mousse cake was…. drool… sparkly and delicious. Oh yum!!
We all enjoyed breakfast the next morning and headed straight to St.Gervais for a warm drink and lunch. After a marathon of eating we said our sad good-byes. What a lovely weekend, full of fun and happy talks.
