Ski Fun: Little Fats version

Hello everyone,

I hope the weather is nice back in Aus. Its really cold here, but very lovely..sometimes. So, what happened yesterday was mum was feeling a but under the weather so she decided to go on a bus tour of Quebec as you have probably read, and the rest of us went to the Le Massif ski fields.

It was an early start waking up at 6:00am except for mum who had a nice sleep in. As soon as we got outside a huge blast of wind hit Emily and snow covered us from head to toe. When we finally got to the place where the bus picked us up, we had to wait for the bus for quite a bit. A bus came but it stopped where it wasn't supposed to and after a while a frustrated young boy, who shall remain anonymous strode up to the bus and demanded that it come closer and soon we saw him riding up the front in the bus, proud of his accomplishment. The bus ride up to Le Massif took about 45 mins and as soon as we got there it was similar weather, probably even worse than back at the house. Once we hired our ski gear we had to get glasses at the shop. Thanks to my keen eye I saw proper goggles that were on sale and everyone bought a pair of those, otherwise we couldn't see. Finally, everyone was ready and we were all set to actually begin skiing.

Emily and I only wanted to ski on the green runs which were the easiest, as the weather wasn't the best to be attempting the black diamond runs (hardest). Some of the runs were a bit difficult and yes, everyone fell. Through one of the green ones, Herb was fixing something and he tripped over his skis, fell over and then Emily laughing at him, went into a snow pile on the side, and fell straight back, and then me laughing at both of them, fell over as well. It was like a Congram tandem fail compilation. A lot of falls happened that day, and most of the time Emily was standing still and just fell straight back whenever some fast people flew past.

Ahh, now we shall go onto the story of the gondola. Which was the main reason why I decided to do this blog as someone would have told my story wrong, and would make me sound more stupider than I was. So, what really happened was to get over the other side of the mountain or to get back once you had skied down to the river, you had to take a gondola which took a really long time, but it took you back to the start which was really quite convenient. So, as the gondola was coming around, it doesn't stop, it just slows down, and heaps of people are fighting to get into the gondola. Me, being small and petite, found it difficult to try and get around these huge guys, and I saw that Mim was already on it. Unfortunately, I had my skis around the wrong way so they didn't fit into the allocated slots and because everyone was pushing me and the gondola was moving a bit too fast, I couldn't get them in, and the guy just stood there and laughed and said, 'Catch next one.' When I looked at Emily she was standing and banging on the window yelling my name, and I was waving and laughing. The next one came along but failed to open, so I knew that Emily was going to freak out once she saw I wasn't in the next one. I was able to catch the next one and finally, my little cart arrived and I saw Emily standing there and she sighed in relief. After that debacle, I am forever and always known as the Queen of the Gondola's..

The weather was extremely windy and snowing so the snow created like a sleet of ice over the goggles and the only way that you could get it off was to melt it. We all had to constantly stop about every 10 mins to try and get it off, otherwise you couldn't see where you were going. David was frequently complaining that he was cold and at one point his nose was past the red colour phase and heading towards the white to blue phase. Emily and I were trying to clean off the ice from our glasses and we were telling him to go inside to the cafeteria, but he profusely refused and Emily and I were getting so angry at him because he was being ridiculously stupid. Eventually, he left us and we got a good 3-4 more runs in.

I think that this just about concludes the ski trip because in the afternoon all we did was return the ski gear, had a quick lunch and got the bus back home where we found mum, as she said she had arrived back just minutes before. Overall, the day was lovely despite the weather, and from Mum's story, I gathered she had a good day as well. I hope everyone is enjoying the warm weather and I hope all stay well.

Love Lol
AKA The Little Fats/Queen of the gondolas xx