High winds

Ali was a star as usual a chap at the door here's your coffee buddy ideal wake up call , we all had lots of stuff to organised and it was a pleasant start to the day entertaining Calum drinking coffee packing backpacks and organising the ski equipment , Ali had booked me him and cammy all terrain skis from the hire shops premier package ,which ali loves they are a bit heavier than normal carvers but you won't sink as much in deep snow and they still give a good level of control , by 11am all the equipment was sorted the girls were off for a walk with the babies (Alison and Joyce have never skied before ) the 4 amigos were good to hit the slopes together it was great to have the 4 of us back on the slopes again ,BUT there was a problem high winds had closed all the upper slopes none of the lifts to the higher slopes were open so we were stuck to the lower  slopes around the village ! and because of the rain that fell the previous two days these slopes were patchy with ice and a bit threadbare in places , we got about 4 runs done and decided to stop for lunch the mountain restaurant was very busy we got a seat and 4 beers , and ordered 2 tartaflets and 2 carbonara's which were delicious but when we left the restaurant they had closed the final high level chair lift ! it was only 2pm and there was no decent ski runs left to do !we skied the patchy brown icy slope down to the village and the circular transfer bus was full so we marched back to the ski hire shop with ski boots on and skis over shoulder , once we had collected our shoes we walked to the polar bear bar , the plan was to go back to the apart hotel and go into the sauna and hot tub but what actually happened was beers in the polar bear bar ,then a walk back to the hotel only to drop off our skies and boots in the very nice ski lockers ( the apartments are superb and we even have boot heaters in the locker ) bob checked on his babies and we went to the red frog for another two beers while Joyce and Allison finalised the curry they were making , the timing was perfect for dinner chick pea and lentil soup followed by chicken curry and rice ,

    After dinner it was the plan to have a quick snooze after dinner and go back to the polar bear bar as there was live music in there at 10 , and that is what me and Ali done Cammy couldn't be roused from his bed and Bob Joyce and Alison were staying in , The bar was mobbed the singer was ok but there was just too many people squeezed in most of them drunk , when one drunk idiot knocked our pints over we had enough and left to go to a place called secret bar which had no live music but was bright and plenty comfortable seating , we just had one more beer then a sensible walk home , the end of our first full day in Les deux alpes