• ESF celebrations in Chamonix centre

  • Ingredients for one last French lunch before flying back home

  • Fire breathing!

  • Maddie concentrating on her turns

  • Laurence being assessed by Chris

  • Bad weather at Les Houches

  • Maddie and Laurence with their instructor, William

Ski Medals

Laurence and Maddie have gone home now, but here’s a quick update on the last couple of days of their adventures in Chamonix and Les Houches learning to ski…

Maddie and Laurence with their morning instructor, William

Their last day on the Les Houches slopes was a real alpine experience – blizzards!! 😯

Bad weather at Les Houches

Despite the storms the weather did clear enough for Laurence and Maddie to both get a chance to show off their new skiing skills to their instructors in their assessments.

Laurence being assessed by Chris
Maddie concentrating on her turns

Their efforts paid off, both got awarded a Flocon standard.
Ye ha, medals all round! 😛

Flocon (Snowflake): Linking snow plough turns, bringing back ski to parallel position. Test of balance on gentle slopes.

On our last night we went into Chamonix centre to join in with the Ecole du Ski Français (ESF) celebrations…

ESF celebrations in Chamonix centre
Fire breathing!

Lastly, just before heading off for Geneva airport, time for one last French lunch! :yum:

Ingredients for one last French lunch before flying back home

Series - Learning to Ski

  1. Laurence and Maddie Learn to Ski
  2. Ski Medals

4 thoughts on “Ski Medals”

  1. :star: :star: Well done to Laurence and Maddie on their medals :star:
    What a great week they must have had….
    I wish I had an Aunty Tish and Uncle Pete to take me skiing and buy me cakes!! 🙂

  2. I really miss you 🙁 , Tish Pete and thank you soo much for letting me and laurence stay.I never atully got to say goodbye at the air port soo goodbye Tish,Pete.
    Can we come next year ❓ ❓ ❓ Please.Was I a good :good: :good: girl ❓
    Love :love: from Maddie
    P.S I was very sad tonight and felt like crying 😥

  3. pigly the pig was sad for me leaving 😥 😥 but still has some rotten apples left :yum: .
    Thanks for putting the new photos on the page but the ones on mums camera weren’t verry good 😯

    P.S. can we come again in the future to maybe do some climbing.

    P.P.S. I’ve also gotta go with the double american not the oriental :yum:
    It’s all about the taste :geek: I quote Pete :good:

    P.P.P.S. I miss all the action.

    P.P.P.P.S. I’ve gotta go now 😥 😥 😥 so seeya 😎

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