More Northerners!

Was soo nice to have guests that said please and thank you again! Normal people who wanted to chat.

Had a big family of Northerners this week who hadnt skied much before.  Finally convinced them to go to Mooserwirt for some Aprés. I know they'd been when no one was there when I went in to make dinner. Then I heard the door go, and the two ladies creep in and go 'ALICE...WE'RE DRUNK' haaaa. You can always tell when they've been to Aprés when they try to creep in.  I then got told the gossip about 'them upstairs' and that they love me and I had to tell them how much a good tip was. Kerching..!

Took the 'children' of the family on a night out..was fun! We tried to be nice and buy a round of drinks coz they bought us drinks and we actually liked them and they weren't rich snobs. We just scraped together €30 for 6 jägerbombs between the three of us ha!

The worst guests

After an interesting half term week with the children, having to do high tea each night, I have been running around to the demands of some lovely guests..who were an hour late for dinner everynight as they had the on of their credit cards on the tab in Krazy Kangaruh, went to bed early, but couldnt seem to crawl out of bed until 10:30am and wondered why I didn't serve them a fry up. Except for the keen girl, who was up at 8am every day..who had already planned her route for the day and couldnt understand why the others had come on a ski holiday if they didnt want to ski.

The group had divided. Mwah ha ha ha....

On the last night only half the group came to dinner, as the others didnt like my food were watching rugby. This is when I got all the gossip! 'So, do you not hang out with the others then...'

The 'nicer' group took us out on the last night, before sending in some AWFUL feedback forms on the bus saying that I could not cook, and was generally lazy. Thanks guys!

 Bring on next week!

Schwimmbad

Decided to have a day at the outdoor pool, just by the slopes today. Was amazing, spent all afternoon being dragged around the whirlpool looking at the mountain!

And taking lots of pictures with Chloé's waterproof camera, whilst making friends with this little Austrian boy who kept following us round!

Amazing!

Now a snowboarder!

So last week I decided to make the big change and get a snowboard instead of skis. The man in the shop checked I was sure as I'm not allowed to change back..although I think the man in the ski bit said I could ;)

I don't think I will be going back..snowboard boots are sooooo comfy and a snowboard is so much lighter than skis AND there's no stupid poles to hold that I don't seem to know what to do with anyway!

So I had my first lesson on Monday morning. I made my cake the night before and told my guests breakfast was at 8am on the dot. Grabbed Chloe and we rushed out to be at the lift for 9.30am to get in a group. Was only -22c. Brr!! Then after lunch the sun came out and I learnt to do some turns but not very well.

Went back out today with Chloe and after lots of falling over, and falling off the lift when it had stopped for ski school children I finally got it..and went alllll the way down the slope doing turns and didn't fall over..until right at the end when I panicked and fell right over forwards with snowboard in the air :D

Think it suits me!!

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.