the planning

Ali was the man for the plan this year he spotted cheap easy jet flights way back in june  so me him and cammy knew we were flying to grenoble months ago , once you know your flight destination you then need to choose your ski area and theres only really 3 big ski areas from grenoble and we were at one last year for val thorens ,so the original plan was to try val d'isere this year i messaged danny who  was off work and in the resort so we would have a friend and a guide on the slopes and bars when we arrived , And then i got talking to french franck at work who lives in grenoble and was an alpine chasseur in his army days, he asked why we weren't choosing les deux alpes as it was closer and cheaper a quick check on the net showed he was correct much cheeper hotels and beers the choice of destination was swiftly changed and ali found us a good hotel half board and booked it , at that point there was just the usual 3 ski buddies bob has two young babies now and ross is at uni again so the regular3 ski amigos were sorted flights hotel food ski passes sorted ! THEN hold the bus (bens bus) bob has a plan !! he will join the lads BUT take the family with him , bob got flights through ryanair he couldn't get his kids on bens bus they are too young! so he has booked a hire car for him wee calum 18month and logan 3 months joyce the mammy and auntie lynne , So our ski group has grew dramatically, hence the reason ali had to cancel our half board acommodation and we are now all booked into a 10sleeper apartment (space for ross if he wants it ) , We are now a group of 6 adults and two very young babies ,
         because i work away from home and was working away for christmas i was making the best of my time off and had booked bogmanay in inverness and went to stay in cromarty for the 1st and then 4 days in ullapool , SO not the best preparation for a weeks skiing to be off in the mountains with all your outdoor equipment already soaked  ! two days to wash all my base-layers and catch up with family and friends for new year and christmas is not a long time , but i managed (sort of ) theres always stuff you think i should have packed this and taken that , i went to visit sue at the log cabin to collect my laptop and get a catch up with sue and young ross ,while there drinking coffee chatting the snow came on ! big time i made my excuses as i knew the bongo would not cope with snow and i dashed off , but it was no good just outside limerig the van went sideways i was lucky i was driving slow or it would have toppled but the wee bongo hit a countryside field bush which burst my bumper , fortunately no real damage to the body and  metalwork the wee bongo was still driveable , it took way much longer to get the 10-13 mile home as i drove at 20mph with my nose virtually at the windscreen but i eventually got home to finalise my packing ,before the planned pre holiday night out with gary and andy , the claremont had the fire on the crack was good gary bought some halfs me and andrew headed to falkirk , I'm on my holidays and organised alls well i shall deal with the van when i get home