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Another ski holiday, another collection of photo's.
This year's team was back to some of the hard core, Mark V (aka Tig), Mark W (aka Doc), Alex B (aka Billy no mates) and myself. Only Ash was missing to repeat the same MAMMA team from Kirchberg in 1998.
We got a late booking (approx a week before flying) on the basis that we would not be informed of which resort we would be staying at until we arrived at Genva airport, all we knew was that it would either be Zermatt or Verbier. I've been to both of these resorts before and consider them both to be excellent ski resorts, so we weren't feeling to fussed.
We ended up in Zermatt in a fairly nice Chalet, we later found out that what cost us £250 was advertised in the brochure for £620, definitely a bargain.
As always we were away for Valentine's day, so Tig, in his normal laid back manner, sent his valentines card from Gatwick airport.
We didn't make it to a bar until the second night, as we found the weeks supply of wine in the chalet on the first night and proceeded to drink most of it. When we did get to the nearest bar we discovered that a small beer was £2, so we decided we would be back on the wine again later.
There were eight of us sharing our Chalet. Simon (aka Dave) and his son, Ben (aka Dave Jnr), turned out to be from the same village in High Wycombe that Alex grew up in. They also turned out to be a lot of fun and skied on blades, not boards.
Roy and Mi were the other two sharing the apartment with us. Again we were lucky as they were not only good company but also put up with our late night drunken card playing and noise (although we discovered why at the end of the week when Charlie showed us the Whirlpool bath they had in their room, no wonder we didn't see a lot of them ;).
Our Chalet "person", Charlie was/is an excellent cook, but one night he slipped on the ice outside the Chalet as he was carrying in more wine for us and cut his hand open on a broken bottle. Inghams had to call in three people to replace him, so our thanks to Olivia, Warwick and Angus for filling Charlie's culinary shoes for the night.
Ya can't beat putting yer feet up with a good book after a hard days skiing, especially if yer waiting for Billy to finish off the hot water in the shower.
On the other hand, there's nothing worse than discovering that there's no bog roll left at 2am after a long night on the beer and wine...
Dr Williams using his statistical skills to clean up at Top Trumps. Of course it helps when you've got a V8 Bentley and the opposition only have a VW Polo and a Ford Fiesta. Although Tig did try to win one hand with the polo based on it having more colours in it's paint work.
A well oiled fat bloke is a happy fat bloke.
Billy finally got the hang of Nomination whist, his play improved no end after sobering up.
Billy doesn't carry a piste map whilst skiing, he seems to think it's more fun to try and work out where he skied later that day.
As a compliment to Charlie's cooking, Billy not only kept his "comments" to a minimum, but also polished off the leftovers on a regular basis, the Bread and Butter pudding in this case.
The end of the last night and we we're all running out of energy.
Billy even let his tea go cold.
There's always one with too much energy left though.
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This is Charlie, who helped make the week extremely enjoyable, by not giving Billy the opportunity to complain about the food.
Congrat's Charlie, not an easy task.
