Chamonix day 3

We are tired! It's been an interesting day. My parents came skiing with us and let's say that we all had some trepidation. They were very skilled skiiers back in the day, but the last time they went was 25 years ago. My mom got her "ski legs" back pretty quickly after figuring out how to ski on shorter parabolic skis. Back when she was growing up. you'd raise your hand as high in the air as possible--and that's how long your skis would be!

My dad was having a tougher time. He has a weak knee that made it difficult to turn in one direction. It doesn't help that the first runs we went down were narrow and had icy patches. After we got down two runs, making our way to the other side of the mountain, he had decided to call it a day. He didn't want to risk getting injured.

My mom did a few more runs with us while he waited. It was warm and sunny, so I think the wait was fairly pleasant. The only problem was that they ended at the other side of the mountain! But fortuanately, they were able to take that gondola down to the bottom and then catch a bus & train back to where we were staying.

We had to make our own way backto the other side of the mountain to get back home for lunch. This meant carrying our skis home, taking off our boots and putting everything into the storage locker, coming back into the apartment to eat...and then at that point everyone was REALLY tired and Eric and Dio even took a short nap. We had to rouse everyone to get them out for a final 2 hours of skiing. My parents came home from the train shortly before we headed out again.

We had time for about 4 more runs before the day ended. At the very end, I took Dio and Ivy home one way because his throat was hurting and he was feeling a bit icky. Irionically we ended skiing just as much as the others because we realized we could ski all the way down the mountain--that last long run had been oepned up in the afternoon. We had to avoid lots of rocks since the snow is fairly thin in the lower elevations.

Ivy and Eric went swimming, but the other kids just wanted to lie down and read books.

Dinner was fajitas. Yum. We finished watching The Abyss and then had hilarious times reading through old journal entries on different random days. This video is one from Dio reading in early 2020. Most of his entries begin with "Today was a great day" or "Today was a boring day" and sometimes "Today was an ok day."





My dad tried to get some kids out for a stargazing walk tonight, but we couldn't persuade them to go. He went by himself. Maybe another night!