Ok, its the first morning of your ski holiday....

Always up early on Winter hols. In Lapland get up, bathroom, then ski jacket on top of PJs and boots, and gloves, go outside for first ciggie and cup of coffee, no smoking in log cabins.
Back inside disrobe back to PJ's have cooked breakfast and decide whether to ski, board or Xcountry. Shower, get dressed.........clothes are ready, always get clothes ready the night before. Head out for which ever we decided to do for about 10am.

AllyG wrote:
I hate showers, and once a day is quite enough, thank you. I think you should leave poor Nelly alone.

Ally

Thanks Ally. I think we should officially name you J2Ski 'mum' :D

Anyone else just before you get off the top of the very first lift on the very first morning ever wonder whether you can still do it?

I always have a real fear first day that I'm not going to manage to get off the first chair lift without either falling flat on my face or even worse ending up going back down the hill on the chair!!

Once I've managed to conquer that then it's normally fairly plain sailing (in a very average skiing style).

Yep, I take a deep breath....and begin.

Tony,
If you read my list, that was one of the things on it. I always find myself going into a snow-plough the first time I try and stop with my newly hired skis, and then I look around anxiously in case anyone has noticed :oops:

I was quite pleased to see some of the fantastic skiers at Tignes last week doing snow-ploughs where there wasn't any room to do anything else.

Ally

I wake up and the first thing I do is go to the window, I stare for a bit and then put coffee on. I stare out of the window again whilst rolling a ciggie and waiting for the coffee. I then make my coffee, put on my boots and ski jacket (over pj's) and then go out onto the balcony and take my time with my fag and my coffee, looking at the views, looking for snowflakes and looking at people as they go by.

Next I start making breakfast and wait for the sizzling of the bacon to wake everyone up.

After breakfast I have a wash (not shower, Sorry Ian, but I don't see the point before skiing either)and then enjoy putting on all my gear, especially if I have some new stuff.

Then it's back onto the balcony for second fag and coffee while everyone else gets ready.

After that I go inside clean my teeth and tidy up the mess made by my hubby who would have turned everthing upside down looking for a glove, or lip balm or something, there is always something. :roll:

Then out comes the piste map...discussion...route planned and off we go.

Excited and slightly nervous in the gondola, can I remember how to do it?

At the top, ski's on, oh god how do you do it? Here we go, nice snow plough (no one was watching they are all thinking the same)

A few minutes later...Yay, I'm doing it...and off we go...woo hoo!

I CAN'T BL**DY WAIT NOW!!!

:lol:

snowb4ndit wrote:

Then out comes the piste map...discussion...route planned and off we go.

Excited and slightly nervous in the gondola, can I remember how to do it?

I'm glad I am not the only one. I got called "anal" last time we went away after trying to plan a route for our group.