So last night we are at Sapori Di Casa, which I highly recommend. Great food (I had the wild boar) and great service from one waitress who served the whole restaurant with a touch of humour in English. We slept well and got onto the slopes the next morning to get the kids into their ski schools.
We asked about lessons for us and it turned out that an instructor was available to give us 2 hours from 11am, so we took it and skied with Jordan, taking the Chamole chair up to La Chatelaine (5) first, then down the red Plan de l’Eyvie, making it our first red of the trip.
We had lunch and Sam decided she’d skied enough for the day, so took to a deck chair at the bar while I went up to Grimod to ski the red Grimondet. On the chair lift up, literally by myself, no one else in sight, I spotted a rook flying straight towards me. It glided down, then tucked its wings in tight and proceeded to do a barrel roll! You don’t see that every day!
I then skied down the red run, onto the 5km blue Grimod all the way to the bottom to meet Sam and the kids. We called it a day at that point and headed back to Pila. The kids went to the hotel and Sam and I went to a bar for a drink with some new friends we’d met from Poole, before returning to the hotel to pick up the kids for dinner. Both Erin and Jed had had a blast on the slopes and were still smiling into the evening. Erin was suffering a hit after being wiped out by someone in the afternoon, but had lived to tell the tale. Jed didn’t have a clue what slopes he’d boarded down, when asked, but clearly had had fun. Onwards to tomorrow and hopefully some more barrel rolling crows!
Baldwin’s Family Travel 