When Liz and Les came to stay...

They arrived early. She was a vegetarian. He was just fussy. Their room was ready. Old guests still in the chalet. They hoovered. They cleaned. They emptyed the bin. They emptyed the dishwasher. Was lovely!

The skiing:

Les loved it!

Liz hated it!

And I was just cool...

And Russian looking in that headband.

After spending a week hating it, a group lesson with Monika 'YOUR SKIING DAYS ARE OVER', a private lesson with Thomas 'just imagine you're shopping at Lakeside', a scary ride in the bubble, and mastering the button lift with the kind German lady, Liz came out with this surprise:

'This is the perfect holiday' Liz, 2012.

'Sorry, what?!'

Yes, it was perfect
- the allotment didnt need looking after as it is winter
- Les was not bored as he had something to do, and was therefore tired at the end of the day
- there were no northerners
- no fat people

Well, what more could you want!

Australia Day!

Had the funniest day ever! Today was apparently Australia Day..never even knew that existed but now I work·sleep·live·eat·drink all day everyday with Chloé we celebrated! 

Decided to make the whole four course dinner in the morning. I managed to finish by 11:30am..don’t know why I don’t do that more often. Canapes were in the fridge ready, every thing else in pans. Went had a nap while Chloé made lasagne then we got on our skis and went to KKs for some après, and Australia facepaint and flag. 

Was mental inside, sooooo busy..lots of fun dancing on tables until we had to leave…got back to my chalet at 7:30pm, got those canapés out the fridge and dinner was on the table by 8:10pm. Don’t think my guests who had barely spoken to me all week were expecting that ha! Turned out for the best as they realised I was a real person, started chatting to me and left me £160!

More northerners and two couples

Had a very good week. Lovely, easy guests. First to arrive was the couple who had spent the previous week at a Ski Total chalet at the other end of resort. Eeeek they were going to be comparing my food to there as it would be the same menu again. Then arrived another couple with strange names. And finally four more lads from Lancashire.

About to serve dinner on first night..

Guest: 'erm Alice, sorry, but..erm, I dont really like red meat..is that a problem?!'

Me: 'Nope, no problem, I'll find some Tofu..' pffffffff!

Apart from that they let me eat dinner with them, the bought me drinks, we had jägertee and they all got on really well....and left me a £150 tip!!! Yayyyyy finally have some money.

The Farmers

So this week I had 9 young farmers from Lancashire staying in my chalet.

They made me eat dinner with them every night·they took me for dinner on my night off·they wandered into our bedroom at 3am coz they couldnt get into their chalet·they drank all the wine·they drank all the juice·they left about 20 half drunk cartons of juice scattered around the lounge each morning·they egged a car and the hotel next door on their last night.. and they left me a bottle of Jäger as a tip.

Transfer Day - again!

So we're back to the beginning; new guests. Mental transfer day yesterday as usual. My guests had their transfer at 15:10 so went out for lunch. At 14:45 my boss comes charging in saying I have to get my guests on the bus NOW, but they were out, tried calling no answer. I didn't think much more of it..then my new guests suddenly arrived so I had two lots at the same time! The old guests came back to the chalet about 15 minutes later and were told they'd missed the bus and the road out of St Anton...

...had been closed at 3pm for the night for avalanche protection. So my guests were stuck in St Anton overnight and they were MAD!!! No tips for me!

This week I have nine lads from Lancashire in my eight man chalet. They ate the whole cake in about 5 minutes, canapes were gone in 2, they drank about 15 bottles of wine and have taught me that it's 'tea' not dinner, and it's a 'brew' not a cuppa tea lol.

Mein Geburtstag :D

Amazing Birthday!! Normally there's no one out at home coz it's just after New Year/Christmas..but here we have no idea which day of the week it is and it wouldn't mean anything anyway as the only days we know are "transfer day" (not a good day) and "day off" (a very good day!). Luckily my Birthday was the day before "day off" woohoo.

So I woke up and opened my presents - thank you very much everyone, my bracelet is nearly full now!!!!!

Did breakfast, had a nap (I'm ill) and then decided I MUST go skiing - it's my Birthday!! And it was a lovely sunny day for me - I can't ski if it's snowing..

Then went home, made dinner and got ready to go outtttt to BarCuba.

This is Team MountainStar! Chloe Jake Lucy and meeeeee aw!!

NYE

Haven´t blogged in a while, sooo busy and only have illegal use of internet in my kitchen. Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas. Ours was quite strange. We woke up early and opened our presents, then me and Lucy opened a bottle of wine at 11am whilst making mince pies, skyped everyone, shoved turkey in the oven and went to the pub! 

My guests were very nice though, they got me a box of Ferrero Rocher and I had dinner with them. They seemed to love my turkey.  

So now it’s New Year week. Didn’t really even realise it was New Year’s Eve until Liz asked me on the phone what I was doing for it the night before while I was waiting for delayed guests to arrive!! So that night we cooked dinner as fast as we could, and then spent hours getting ready; washing hair, drying hair, straightening hair, backcombing hair: 

'sexy and we know it' haaaaaaa

To then walk to a party in the street in the pouring rain (which had made the snow turn into ice) in heels. Got there - hair not so straight.

So just before midnight we found everyone we work with in the street, drinking champagne from plastic bottles, there was music playing, hundreds of people dancing..

and we were surrounded by fireworks going off from all around!!

Was amazing!!!! 

Happy New Year everyone!!!!!!