The drive from the Champagne took longer than expected, due to the busy holiday traffic. We normally drive down through the night, and don’t notice any queues at the tollbooths or petrol stations. We started our week with a day of rest, organising the house and sorting out our ski gear. The weather was beautiful; we had a full day of sunshine and reasonable temperatures. Piet even went out on his bike and rode up his training mountain Col d’Ornon. Mary did some work in the garden, and we sat outside reading our books. The next 5 days we went up to Alpe d’Huez to go skiing, with 3 very nice, sunny days and good snow, and 2 days with snowfall and limited visibility. Our last descend was in a whiteout–blizzard! The girls were always leading the pack, and managed to do a number of black runs without their parents. The week ended with another day of rest, cleaning the gear and the house, and Paula’s first “real” job: as a dishwasher in our local restaurant. This is a preparation for a potential summer job, which she really would like to do in France.
On Sunday we had the usual trip home: leave the house around 6, arriving in The Hague late afternoon, with plenty of time to visit our lost son: Beau (now nicknamed "the granny killer").
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