Carnivale

The Thursday night prior, while having Long Beach Iced Teas after an epic day skiing on the other side of Les Brevieres, our cocky young Suisse mate Alex (who was raised on a pair of skis), in his strong Germanic accent declared that I was the ‘Old Man in the Powder’! Although initially my ego took a bit of a hit (I tend to rate my own ski ability :)) Alex tried to placate me by saying he’d never skied with an Australian who was as good as me in fresh powder. Ego restored, although I am now officially referred to as “Old Man” :) I think Nic managed to have a pretty good time too, despite being a bit reluctant to venture off the Piste at first!

He took the following shots from the day…

The Eye - a rock formation in Tignes.

“The Old Man” dropping in ...

Putting in a few turns – not bad for an old guy like myself

"The Old Lady” having a go at her first fresh tracks!

Anyway, as it turns out the last week we found that there exists a European tradition of dressing up in order to ward off the winter and bring on the spring. Now given that we’ve only had a handful of the preceding powder days and want plenty more you would think that we wouldn’t be so keen on ending our season, but as our French mates invited us to ‘make a party’ with them, we figured this was the right thing to do. As soon as we arrived at their place we were clothed with whatever sort of old junk that we could find in the basement of the hotel and were off to cause some sort of havoc in a multitude of English pubs!! We took our camera out on this occasion and here’s the result! Enjoy ….

I’m sporting a very trendy teddy bear outfit.

Thibaut, Guillaime and David are in some crazy attire.

The ‘atypical Spaniard’ Xavier getting into the spirit.

Thibaut, the Pirate and me sharing a laugh.

Magalie, with the professional table tennis outfit sporting ‘le bit’ (dick en Francais) of David by Michael Angelo, and me playing pool at Bar l’Alexandra.

Nic in a crazy safari hat and Mr Loiseax the monkey on her back with Guillaime in his Saturday Night Fever get up.

Nic and I after a couple too many bevies.

Nic and the gang motoring to the sounds of a British cover band.

You need to get stuck into the Grand Marnier crepes....

....and the Chevallot patisserie to get over the hangover after a party like that.

Ali, in the Wallabies jersey and Phil rocking out on Australia Day at Bar Alex.