11-3-07 les 7 Laux - Prapoutel with the Sarahs and me

A nice day that almost did not happen that fun for me ...oups

I woke up at 7h00 with my little "radio-réveil" which is much more fidel to wake you up than give hi-fidelity music...well this time also the "waking up function" was not on its best day!
The meeting was a 7h00 in the gare routière de grenoble....

I was indeed supposed to wake up at 6h00 to get up smoothly, wash my face (for the 100% awaken to be guaranteed), get dressed, prepare a sandwitch, eat some miam miam home-made beautiful crepes, finish preparing the bag for the day, ....

Only the vital steps were made with extreme velocity:
I jumped out of bed, grabbed my agenda with the phone number of Sarah T. plus some junk that were on the same table but still no idea how it got stuck in my hand... and ran to grab the phone.
i left a message on Sarah's messagerie : imagine that you have a few seconds to tell you are going "probably" to be late and that you ll run as fast as possible to be there before the bus leaves 50 min later... Probably when she heard the message she had a big laugh because of my sleepy way of talking (i phoned before the cold water on my face!) and the mixed structure of the ideas ;)

At 7h30 i was paking the car in the gare routière. oufffff!!
Thank you Sarah for buying the ticket for me before the bus was full. You took a huge risk! (she did not have her mobile phone...)

The site of Prapoutel is beautiful and the snow was made of great powder ;) we slided down a lot on the dark tracks without killing ourselves!!!! we are all "pro" now...

The gang

The site

The wind blowing the snow away from the top!!!

Going down a dark track (top), but i is not hard enaugh, just follow the traces just above the red arrow on the picture below, it is the path i drew in the snow going down to the right.... :)

and the scary view when looking down from the dark tracks...

hey what about a photo with both the Sarahs ?


i already had one photo with both the Susanas in Allevard...
now i just miss a photo with both the Sofia ;)
only S... women hehehhehe

Chamrousse (again!)

with Susana, Ricardo and Max.

Originally, we plannified to go to Les 7 laux by bus but although we arrived at 7h20 at the gare routière, it was too late ... bus full!! so we went to chamrousse...again for me...but why not after all...

We had ice snow by the morning, melting during lunch, and soup afternoon, ;) bus was cool, after 6 h of heavy sportive exercices, Ric, Susy and i decided to find a seat to lay of all our broken long. However, we found strengh to crawl to the churros shop!!! miam ;)

In a little corner, we found Mike trying to get some rest... we caugh him for a photo...

I only arrived home at 8h30... we were stuck in a huge 3h traffic jam !!! horrible ...
the good thing when we have friends is that there is always something to do, so we joked a bit...

here are the athletes

The good thing about being stuck in a traffic jam is that you have all the time you need to catch a nice picture of the sunset...

The end ... unless it continues?....

25-2-07 Chamrousse 1650-2250m -max-sarah-mike-andrew-trevor and family

what could happen when you are with friends in a station that you do not know very well, with a map that is just as usefull as a box of chewing gums to orientate you in the colourfull tracks, when snow is falling and fog forbids to see further than the few 75 m sphere around you?

this is part of the answer: you do mistakes and get lost!

Sarah and I went down a little after getting out of the telesiège and though seeing a little nice blue track. Down there we realised it was a dead end because the "tire fesse" was off. Full of courrage (not feeling like walking back up by feet to the top with the 50 cm deep snow layer = the usual lazyness that caracterises me), we decided to follow fresh traces of ski going down the hill over the delimitations (off piste). i said: "that guy must have found a track".
that was going fine, sliding down for 5 min, until the moment we realised we were going down to a valley full of stones and trees without any apparent tracks to get to the lifts... OUPS! (was i thinking inside myself from deep in!)
i realised how wrong i had been.... the only option was to go backwards following our traces. The landscape was awesome and we could see the traces of an old avalanche just above us ... that motivates to climb...
30-45 min later, after climbing up very slowly the hill, completely exhausted, spiting our lungs in the snow, we reached the blue track so much wanted...
we are safe again... for the moment at least (the season is not over yet!)

the victims of the montains:

********Top secret pictures********

La Maxipizza

"Allo, i want a Maxipizza"

ok, it is in the oven !!!

basic pizza + slices of tomato + sausages + fried onions in olive oil + pre cooked bovine meat
=
miam

Vaujany 11-feb 07 (Alpes d Huez)

with David, Estelle, Sarah (2) and Maxime

the beginning of the day was chaotic because some of us had some difficulties to find the path in the fog.... and kept falling and falling.... ;)
but the afternoon was very nice. the snow ultra powder
have a look at some nice views of the mountains...







do not search for the Yeti or "abominable maxime des neiges" anymore...



some views of the montains with actresses...

when it disappears...

Some lyrics from bryan adams that could express the feelings coming to your mind when some words said by somebody close have the same effects as a cold shower falling on you....

"Still feels like our first night together
Feels like the first kiss, its gettin better baby
No one can better this...
Still holdin on, youre still the one
First time our eyes met, same feelin I get
Only feels much stronger, wanna love ya longer
You still turn the fire on...
So if youre feelin lonely dont
Youre the only one I ever want
I only wanna make it good
So if I love ya a little more than I should
Please forgive me, I know not what I do...
...i cant stop lovin you
Dont deny me this pain Im going through...
...if I need ya like I do
Please believe me every word I say is true...
...our best times are together...
...touch, still gettin closer baby
Cant get close enough...
Still holdin on, still number one
I remember the smell of your skin...everything
...all your moves...you, yeah!
...the nights ya know I still do...
...one thing Im sure of is the way we make hugs
And one thing I depend on is for us to stay strong
With every word and every breath Im prayin
Thats why Im sayin...
...never leave me I dont know what Id do... "

"When you love someone - youll do anything
Youll do all the crazy things that you cant explain
Youll shoot the moon - put out the sun
When you love someone

Youll deny the truth - believe a lie
Therell be times that youll believe you can really fly
But your lonely nights - have just begun
When you love someone

When you love someone - youll feel it deep inside
And nothin else can ever change your mind
When you want someone - when you need someone
When you love someone...

When you love someone - youll sacrifice
Youd give it everything you got and you wont think twice
Youd risk it all - no matter what may come
When you love someone
Youll shoot the moon - put out the sun
When you love someone"

Laura Pausini:
La solitudine

"Marco se n´è andato e non ritorna più
Il treno delle 7:30 senza lui
E´ un cuore di metallo senza l´anima
Nel freddo del mattino grigio di città
A scuola il banco è vuoto, Marco è dentro me
E´ dolce il suo respiro fra i pensieri miei
Distanze enormi sembrano dividerci
Ma il cuore batte forte dentro me
Chissà se tu mi penserai
Se con i tuoi non parli mai
Se ti nascondi come me
Sfuggi gli sguardi e te ne stai
Rinchiuso in camera e non vuoi mangiare
Stringi forte al te il cuscino
Piangi non lo sai quanto altro male ti farà la solitudine
Marco nel mio diario ho una fotografia
Hai gli occhi di bambino un poco timido
La stringo forte al cuore e sento che ci sei
Fra i compiti d´inglese e matematica
Tuo padre e suoi consigli che monotonia
Lui con i suoi lavoro ti ha portato via
Di certo il tuo parere non l´ha chiesto mai
Ha detto un giorno tu mi capirai
Chissà se tu mi penserai
Se con gli amici parlerai
Per non soffrire più per me
Ma non è facile lo sai
A scuola non ne posso più
E i pomeriggi senza te
Studiare è inutile tutte le idee si affollano su te
Non è possibile dividere la vita di noi due
Ti prego aspettami amore mio ma illuderti non so!
La solitudine fra noi
Questo silenzio dentro me
E´ l´inquietudine di vivere
La vita senza te
Ti prego aspettami perché
Non posso stare senza te
Non è possibile dividere la storia di noi due"

Hard time on Christmas holidays

Sometimes life exposes us to unexpected events and the initial objectives are ... delayed


http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=802

it seems i was not the only one disappointed...


http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=804