Day 6 into Switzerland

Stuart got up and away for his flight before we got out of bed, a quick shake of the shoulder see you mate shake of hand and he was off to get his flight home to Manchester ,( he did add a photo of us and a cheers for the good times message on Facebook when he got home so that was nice ),he was great fun a welcome addition to the group ,but now the 4became 3again
We had a group discussion over breakfast about wether we should do the Swiss wall or not ! We had a discussions last night in dixies with a girl called amy and her man mat who live out here and they said 3-10 people Die each year on the Swiss wall ,this was enough to set ali's mind into overdrive and he had a nightmare about the wall while sleeping ,SO we made a group decision not to do it .as it turned out ,it was the right decision the rain last night and overnight low temperature turned all the slopes to sheets of glass ,one of those days when you really should be wearing a helmet if you are gonna ski at speed or do anything technically difficult ,only Ali had a helmet on and I often thought throughout the day next year I'm gonna wear a helmet ,but definitely not the right ski conditions for an attempt at the Swiss wall ,
I'm not complaining about the ski conditions it was a beautiful sunny day very windy at the top of lifts and cold but lovely alpine sun ,yesterday afternoons rain and overcast conditions were like Scotland ski weeks , but although the slopes were hard as glass and the unpisted parts very difficult to make a turn .it was a beautiful day ,the first black run that we took down into Switzerland at the steepest part we all wondered how the bloody hell we would manage a turn and slow down when we were sliding down a sheet of glassy ice ,but we just had to man up and go for it ,we had the slope to ourselves until we got to the long blues nearer the lifts
We stopped for lunch at around 13:30 in Switzerland in a place called des portes du soleil ,bob ordered pasta it was very like carbonara made with macaroni ,me and Ali went for the plat du jour which gave us a soup to start with it came in its own terrine and we ladelled it into our bowls with spoonfuls of very garlic croutons , our main course was fillet of fish with baby carrots and peas and instead of chips or potato a heap of boiled barley which was different for me but very tasty.the bill came in Swiss franks ( we only had euros) it was 76.20 Swiss franks which she then converted using her mobile phones calculator to 67 euros which was £59 ,
After dinner we took a lovely nice red run back over the border to France we had the run to ourselves and it was wide and good until it abruptly and unexpectantly turned into a very difficult narrow gorge which had not only been left unpisted it had huge big icy lumps there was a skier stuck whom couldn't work out how he was gonna navigate this section ,we had to just go past him
The rest of the runs were lovely and the weather stayed sunny and nice we skied straight through the purpose built ski resort town of avoriaz and had plenty time to ski all the way home to morzine ,
By now we had a routine going we took our skis back to the hire shop then had a€3.50 pint of grolsch at the street cafe (today they had a cabaret singer doing her stuff )we then bought milk and bread for the apartment and walked round to dixies for a bit of après ski, it was nice in dixies we got the big bench in front of the log fire and stayed longer and had more beers than usual ,by the time we got back to the apartment and had dinner, I said I don't think we have time for a power snooze lads I was outvoted they jumped into their beds and said they had set alarms .i sat up 5minuets longer but decided to join them the next thing I woke up in my bunk it was 03:00