courchevel and back

         usual wake up routine for the boys but its getting smoother we are all working together better as a team and know each other's strenghs . waking up and discarding my duvet is not my strengh so when ali put a coffee at my bedside table and said kenny its 08:30 mate i straight away though jeez ive got another hour mate surely ! im on my holidays ! Ali had been up tjhough and he wanted to change over his skis at the shop he made an exchange for all mountain skis at a cost of 20euros , cammy was going to channge his freestyle skis as they are nowher as cool or good as his black crows from last year , but you kknow its a easy decison another hour in your bed or get up to change your skis ! at 19 i think i would have opted for the these skies will do for now option ,

          the good thing was we were out on the slopes much earlier than yesterday and decided to take the strange looking cable car called the 3 valleys its a cool piece of engineering but actually no quicker than the chair lift next to it ! still i liked it and  i chose to go up on it because i wanted to see how it worked  .our plan was to ski from val T all the way over to courchavel and back today which was a bit of a gamble as its the first big trial for this new group of four ! but ross came up trumps and skied his socks of , what a distance we covered today all three meribell vilages and all 3 of the 4 courcheval  villages then back to val thorens ,it was a huge day on the slopes and i don't mind admitting i was worried about getting back on time , you most definatelly dont want to be stuck in the wrong valley when the lifts close , so before you head off the distance we were hoping to cover you would like to think the whole party are capable , and we were capable the only person worried about not getting back to our valley in time was me ! , the group done superb today it would have been fantastic to have been able to log the distance via gps which is possible but we are all too worried about what charges that would incur , if i had one complaint about the team today it would be that we moved to fast 

   some of the highlights of today , the weather was cold but it was bright all day our faces are weather beaten by it , but we have good equipment so this is the price you pay for good snow/ski conditions  , the snow itself possibly because of the very low temp is strangley sticky over ice but no complaint we all have had a lot of different ski surfaces and these ar good ,on the way back to val T i said to cammy i would ski slowly near the area i stopped yestrday with the go pro to film the boys individually as i was sure that is the area i lost my whip leash , he went straight to the bit i was filming from and said there it is dad ! honestly the mountainside is huge the area is all white it still  makes me laugh  cant believe i got that small metal chain back after dropping it there yesterday. everybody had a great day 

   the low points of the day if there was any ! we never got our lunch break  ,no soup/lunch break mid day beer as we were on the move from the Minuit we got out the hotel untill we got back , we chose the wrong run back from meribel to avoid la folie douce and ended up at the bottom of town when we had hoped to be at the top of town ,but in all honesty if carlin made days out then this was up there !! 

          when we got back to town we were down very close to our appartments the choice was walk  downhill the same distance as uphill to the irish bar ! me and cammy opted for uphill. the carlins opted downhill , we met them after 30mins and after a few beers me and cammy skied back to the appartment ross and ali went to spar to choose something for dinner 

after dinner and a quick power snooze we went out to the irish bar bar oconnels but the bars seemed quiet we made a mistake .it was quiet so stayed for only two beers , then we walked into a bar called saloon but me and ali didnt like the music and walked right back out with the young team shaking their heads then went to the frog and roast beef it was mobbed in there and i lost my glove somebody must have moved it from where i left it ,it was 01;00 and i suppose it was enivetable but they young team wanted to visit malysia the underground nightclub that supposedly has the biggest dance floor in Europe me and ali went of to bed we rescued a poor penguin on the way !!  a young girl dressed as a penguin had fell on the ice lol we lifted her up , cammy and ross went to panda bar then got home around 02;45