the longest journey ever

       the day started off ok my sister Karen who was staying over got up and made me a coffee while i got a shower , i completed the last minuit packing cammy had drove himself down ,then B A turned up on time to drive us to edinburgh airport for 08:30 ,we met ali and ross at the check in and it all went smoothly through the check in procedyre which has changed a lot at edinburgh recently, we had  a nice bacon roll and beer at the airport its a tradition we always start the ski week with a beer at the airport ,it was a good quick flight over to grenoble we had booked the leg room seats and everything went perfectly , i have a lot of bags with me because of the extra ski equipment big bag so i was expecting some minor  trouble or other , but everything went smoothly right up untill we got on the airport transfer bus! our flight landed at 13;50 the bus was supposed to leave at 14:40 , after we sat for 15minuits wondering why the bus hadnt left yet it turned out the girl who was in charge of the passenger list was missing 3 people we waited ten minuits more and it turned out the 3 people were me the booking had been done twice ! that was our first delay the supposed 3 and a half hour transfer journey took over 6hrs with traffic problems (mostly caused by drivers not having snow chains on )

          when we eventually got to val thorens we found the appartment easily enough checking in was fine we done a quick unpack and headed out , we had spotted an irish bar on the walk from the bus station and decided to have a beer in there before going to dinner they had real ale so i had a pint of youngs , its 7euros a pint in the irish bar or bottles of corona for 6

    because it was now getting late at night we went to a nice restaurant and got a very nice dinner which me and ali washed done with litre beers ( steins of lager ) ross and ali shared a sort of side table bbq which they cooked their own steak and veg on all very nice , two dads and their lads out in the alps should be fun ! i think ! we had a walk up town to see where  the nightclubs and bars were but it had been a long day and now because the bus was late in getting us here we now need to collect our skis and ski passes in the morning ,so we went to bed