My amazing ski instructing!

Sunday was such a sunny day that myself and Kay decided to hit the slopes and make the best of the powder!

Kay (who is now happily mump free) is usually a snowboarder, but I managed to pursuade her to give skiing a go... the only problem is her slightly wobbly snowplough... however I decided to take her upto the top of the Olympique and give her a little lesson!!!



Kay demonstrating the perfect snowplough!

So after about an hour or so... Kay had genuinely improved loooooaaadss.....must be my amazing ski instructing skills!!!

She was actually a very fast learner... I was seriously impressed!

We then headed across to Tignes... it was such a nice day and perfect snow conditions, but it was ABSOLUTELY FREEZING!

We had a mini pit stop and took to the deck chairs!


The view....aaaah!

Postcard pictures....!



This last one is a stolen photo from my friend... but i just love it!

Thats all for now,

Lots of love

Emily xxx

Val d' mumps and broken wrist!

Soooo... two of my best friends in Val have decided to become very good customers to the Doctors and Bourg hospital...

Firstly Kay was diagnosed with mumps, so is fully bed bound...

She will probably kill me for sharing this with the world... but I do feel very sorry for her! Having said this... I am avoiding our apartment like the plague for fear of catching the hampster faced infection!!!

Then, my other little partner in crime fell on the ice and nearly got squashed by a van, resulting in a trip to Bourg hospital with a broken wrist...

Again... she will probably kill me for sharing this picture, however, I feel that Cress is one of very few people who can pull off a hospital gown and slippers!!!

Oh dear... get well soon girlies, I need my little wing men back!!!

Emily xxx

Harry Potter glasses!

I have found the best glasses ever....

Who ever would have guessed that Harry Potter shops at Val d'Isere market...!

Will's 24 hour flying visit!

My friend Will came to visit for a day and what a 24 hours they were… aaah very amusing and eventful!

We started with a bit of pre-drinking in my shoebox of an apartment and Jonny and Will decided to play a game of beer pong on the kitchen floor...

Their version was slightly different as it involved knocking a bottle top off a beer bottle but for those unsure on how to play beer pong... it basically involves throwing a ping pong ball into a cup of beer and if you manage to get it in, then your opponent has to drink! Highly skillful!

Like all good visits to Val d’Isere, I then took them to Bananas and Dicks and showed them the ropes...

Will very nearly got kicked out for having a snooze in the corner...

He was saved from this fate very narrowly by somehow pursuading the bouncer that 'he was not drunk, just very sleepy after a hard day driving...'!

Dicks was great fun, and the night was rather uneventful until...

Jack; one of Will’s friends, decided to try and rugby tackle Gen; another one of his friends, to the floor... this happened in the middle of the road outside Dicks! All fine until Jack totally stacked it and completely destroyed his leg, meaning that he couldn’t stand up and was lying in the middle of the road in pain! A few hours and Bourg hospital later, Jack was ok, but still unable to ski so he was left there to recover over night and throughout the following day whilst the rest of us hit the slopes! (Pretty mean but it had to be done!)





Will did the best wipe out I think that I have ever seen… oh my gosh… it was AMAZING! Basically he came racing down this hill, up the slope and properly took off! Flew absolutely miles before landing and somehow catapulting himself out of his skis onto his face….!

Aaaah I wish I had taken a video!

Lots of love

Emily xxx

Try this...

Ok... just a quick one! See if you can jump over a line on the floor whist touching your toes....!

This is especially difficult if challenged to do it outside Dicks at 4:30 am!

Emily xxx

Day of Paragliding in Val!!

I had a awesome surpise one morning...! i was told to meet at 2pm on the mountains for a ski.. only to find out that i was going paragliding and everything was all ready to go!

a perfect sunny day!! It was an awesome experience and going straight down a mountain at great speed on ur ski's for take off was epic!

The views of the mountains were awesome!

after paragliding we went for a ski and then chilled at the Le Bar de L'Ouillette on the mountains!

Love Emz xxxx

Awesome day skiing...and facepaint night at bananas!!

I joined Henry and Amigo on my day off for a epic day of skiing the weather was perfect along with the snow!

We got involved with a bit of off piste and apres ski! which made the start of my day off a joy!

Then later on that day Bananas had a facepaint night!! :-D

Jono,Henry and I were going to go as animals but somehow...managed to all look like some sort of scary clown....!

It was a epic night of pinning people down and drawing all over there faces....! ha

myself getting a little over excited!
Thats all for now..!

over and out!

love Emz xxx

Parents visit!

This week, my parents headed out to Val d’Isere which was great because it meant a week of nice meals, and a bit of luxury as opposed to the usual seasonaire slumming it!

They stayed in the Avenue Lodge Hotel, which was soooo nice! I fully utilised the spa facilities and even got treated to a facial, which was amazing!

Parents also brought with them loads of nice goodies, I was completely spoilt and had a late Christmas day on Saturday night which was fab!

This week also saw Val d’Isere host the World Snow Polo Masters:













It was so so so fun to watch, really weird watching a polo match half way down the ‘Face’ ski slope, but equally there was a very good atmosphere.

Also had loads of food stands giving away goodies, so myself and Steph were fully utilising the free hot chocolates!

So, what else happened… Two of the army boys came to Val for one night only, so that was a good night…This also coincided with Dougal leaving Val d’Isere and heading back to Australia… sooooo sad! This was quite a drunken night out...















We have been ridiculously lucky with the weather this week, loads of snow and also loads of sunshine, so this has meant that the skiing has been amazing! My parents definitely chose a good week to come!









Had a massive wipe out on Thursday and completely destroyed my knee as I was attempting to show off by skiing backwards! Basically hit a lump of powder and went absolutely flying! Unfortunately for my knees, they went in opposite directions to my skis and my silly bindings were on too tightly meaning that they didn’t come off… owch! Moral of the story… don’t show off by skiing backwards!

Aaah such a good week!

Lots of love

Emily xxx