Snowboarding and way too much cheese

 

We went to the Alps and it was good!

Highlights included: 

Discovering Baba au Rhum (taste explosion, you've got to try it), completed The Mile of Moguls (legs still hurt), partied in a Bender hat (Futurama, but best not to ask) and had the most amazing view from my window (beats the view at home).

Also look at this gorgeous little story about friendly marmots

The Alps 3

I think this'll probably be the last photos of snowy goodness for a while but I can't resist the mountains for long so I'm sure they'll be back! Thanks for all the lovely comments and emails about the snowy photos.

I'm not sure if you can really see it but, right in the middle of the village in the bottom photo is a little place called Chalet Chardons and I was lucky enough to have lived there for a whole season a few years ago, so much fun I can't even begin to tell you. Also photo number 5 is where I attempted my first jumps ever (it still counts even if they were tiny green kickers) on my snowboard - AND I even managed to land most of them!! I always thought I wasn't a jumper but I was so wrong.

Ski School!!

Flat light for snowboarding = bad

Flat light for photographs in the mountains = good

We only had one day of weather like this, the rest was beautiful blue skis and sunshine so excellent for snowboarding but I love the otherworldly/dreamlike look that flat light gives to photos. I would take sunshine any day though!

Also, do you like my new header image? It was time for a change