The January slump...

I know it's been a while since our last updates, so apologies for those of you who have nothing better to do than to read updates about our lives in the snow! I would say that it is due to us having no time to do anything. But that would be lying. As Vicki said, the last two weeks have been dead in resort. So a serious lack of people wanting lessons has led to me not doing any work for almost two weeks now. But the weather gods have finally decided to play along and provided a good dump this week, with the weekend due for even more. Get in. So the next week being quite quiet as well should mean plenty of skiing in nice champagne powder - bring it on!

And hopefully by then, I will be sounding less like Darth Vader (thanks for that Vicki...!) and a bit more like my usual self. At least I have not had to drag myself to work feeling a bit pants. And somehow, going to the pub and up the mountain when you are not 100% is not such a chore! It is nothing more than a bit of a cold, but a few nights in very smoky bars probably hasn't helped much...

As Vicki mentioned, it has been really nice having people we know here in Verbier. It reminds us that real life is still going on somewhere out there, beyond the cable car... and the goody bag they brought with them from the place they call the "airport" was amazing! Drugs (the legal kind obviously...) DVDs and magazines galore mean an end to evenings filled with solitaire on the laptop, mixed in with a few games of minesweeper (I am getting ridiculously good at that though...). But the recent lack of work for either of us has meant that Vicki and I are spending considerably more time in pubs than we have all season. Which is nice. Although I had forgotten quite how bad hangovers can get, especially here at altitude (come on, I have to have an excuse for being in bed until 3pm!). But now I have reminded myself, I will obviously do the sensible thing and abstain. Well, maybe not altogether...

So as we wait with baited breath (or maybe that's just the beer monkey) for the arrival of the little darlings on their half term holidays, we can enjoy the copious amounts of snow currently falling from the sky, whilst sipping on a nice cool beer from the comfort of the pub. And to everyone reading this from your desks, just go and check out natives.co.uk and see for yourself just how easy it is to jack it all in and head out here for a few months. Go on, you know you want to!!