Max in Leysin - 27/28 February 2010

We went to Leysin for the weekend. Our first weekend in the mountains since moving here, four weeks after moving here... Rick was getting very anxious - he said everyone at work is going to the mountains at the weekend, it's what people do here. He forgot of course that we had nothing: no snowboards, no clothes, shoes, jackets, gloves etc. That was all still in transit. So we borrowed what we could off of friends and family, hired a car (handy having friends at Hertz) and drove off. An hour and a half along the most beautiful scenic drive along Lake Geneva. Pretty. We booked a room in a hotel right next to the ski lift so it was very practical. Max had tons of fun in the snow, as these pictures show. Sadly they are in no order at all. I'll do it better next time. Rick got some snowboarding in and I got some down time too. We went out for dinner early and our extra treat was that Max was so exhausted from his day in the snow (it was really only half an hour because it was so cold...), he fell a sleep on the way to the restaurant so Rick and I treated ourselves to an almost romantic meat fondue by candle light. Almost romantic because meat fonduerarely feels very romantic after you've eaten copious amounts of meat and fries. But it was a treat to have dinner out just the two of us. The weather was a bit crap the next day so we left a bit early and visited some newly made (English) friends on the way home. All round a good weekend that made us feel like we live here and we like it.


That's the view across Lake Geneva. Pretty impressive.

This is Max catching some air. As you can tell from the photo above it, he loved it.



As soon as we got out of the lift he was off...