Time in Nendaz

The two weeks have gone so fast! Switzerland is definitely the best place i have been skiing, there is so much choice when it comes to mountains and you can literally ski from town to town.

We were living on the slopes in Haute Nendaz a little cozy town, and we could either ski locally or make a big day of it and head out on adventures. Notice the Australian flag on our apartment hehe

Beck & i were actually the only ones skiing, the rest of the team were boarding, but at least we were not the ones complaining of extremely sore butts, wrists, heads & quads haha

A note to Matt who managed to impale a stick into his but, and Ryan who needed to invest in a very special helmet (which was later used in drinking games aka president & arsehole as shown below :) ).

One of the days we went up to 3300m & skid down a glacier which was pretty awesome, other days the boys would practice there 'fully sick' jumps which would mostly put them out the next day.

Nevertheless we were blessed with lovely weather & a few big dumps of snow that made off trail skiing all the more fun, seeing as when you fell it didn't hurt :)

Night time was either spent in the house playing card games & cooking delicious budget dinners

OR when we had the energy we would go to Cantina Cactus bar a Mexican style place that attracted a big crowd! (funny since id just come from mexico) So Tequila shots & many other alcoholic beverages were in order for all the Aussies & cheap beer made it a popular choice for the guys.

(Yummy!!!)

(DJ Dean)

Our biggest nights out included an ACDC concert at a Canadian bar (which was surprisingly really good) the band was french but they sounded exactly like the real deal...crazy! So after lots of head banging, drinking & dancing, it was no surprise people were slow to rise the following day.

This was followed by a mid week Aerobics themed party that ended up with lots of shots & pole dancing. Costumes looked great haha.

So that is Nendaz in a nutshell.  I would highly recommend to travelers who love skiing/boarding, that its a prime location with lots of awesome people who come every winter to share the love of carving up the snow!    

8th-11th Jan: Trip from Mexico to Europe!

so the trip from mexico to geneva was such a drama. i left on the 8th and was meant to get there on the 9th...............................well no i arrived on the 11th!!
this is how it went
-flew from mexico to NY in the morning, got there at 5, picked up my luggage to put on the connecting flight to london and headed to the next terminal to check in, only when i arrived the flight to london was cancelled. i was like fucking brilliant!!!!!!
so i stood in a line for 2 hours to see if i could get another flight, the girl at the desk managed to get me a flight with air france the following day at 5pm......great stuck for 24hrs! so i was like ok ill take that flight seeing as i have no other option. then i went to collect my bag so i could go to the hotel, and they had lost it! fucking idiots, so i then spent the next 5hrs arguing with the stupid people that they should get off their arses and go look for it, but the lazy ppl were sooooooo unhelpful. eventually at midnight they found it and i headed to the hotel.

next day i went back to the airport, checked in with air france and flew to NY, my bag was on a connecting flight to geneva & all i had to do was get to the right terminal and fly out, so i get on the plane all strapped in ready to go, happy that im warm and getting closer.............BUT..........NO......."were sorry to inform you ladys and gentlemen but this flight is now cancelled due to the geneva airport been closed from snow, you will all have to get off the plane, collect your luggage and go to zone 3 to talk to our staff to get another flight"
well i wanted to scream! i could not believe it!
so i then stood in another line for 2 hours, only to find out we had to catch a train to geneva with a 3hr stop in Lyon (the most freezing shit, packed train station in the world)...so off we went on the train, only problem is we didnt get there till 10pm & it was too late to get to sion that night.......so another night in a hotel and set off again the next day to catch the train to sion, then catch the bus to Nendez.....
i was so glad to see gemma waiting for me at the bus stop, as the past 4 days were terrible!!

anyhow this place is beautiful and worth the wait. there is 13 of us staying in an apartment and the snow is great! had lots of powder to ski on this morning & the pubs are really cool. so will keep you updated on the next few weeks. should be lots of fun!