40th Birthday Fun
I hope my 40th birthday is marked with as much fun and in as much style as the party we went to over the weekend. Our friend Emmanuelle who’s Swiss and from near Lausanne celebrated her 40th by hiring a chalet at Les Mosses and invited all her friends to join her for skiing and raclette.
Euan and Eva had never seen so much snow before and it was lovely to see their faces. Euan took to hour long ski lessons and really enjoyed it (I was afraid he may have been put off at the point of trying on the ski boots), he definitely wants to go again. Eva really enjoyed being pulled about on a toboggan and racing her brother down the slopes. They both also really enjoyed the snow-tubing.
Les Mosses is a good place to go as a family skiing as the ski slopes aren’t too long so quite young children can cope with going all the way up to the top and there is plenty of space for tobogganing and building snowmen. It’s also not too far from the motorway so is within easy reach of places like Montreux, Vevey and Lausanne.
On the way back we took a train from Lausanne to Geneva Airport that included a play area, complete with slide, as part of one of the carriages. The kids thought this was magic and kept them amused for the 40 minute journey. It was a shame then when we reached Geneva airport that it was so child unfriendly with 3 or 4 sets of steps/escalators to negotiate (with buggy) without recourse to an elevator. There was nowhere for them to play either; in the end we went to the (free) viewing terrace where Euan could watch the planes take off and land and Eva could just run around!
I’ll post photos up soon, once I’ve got them off the camera.