Síelés Utazás és Kiskutya

I haven't made a blog post in forever and I really don't have an excuse, but here's one now!

On Friday (Jan 27) we left at three in the morning by bus from Udvarhely.  We drove through Hungary, Slovenia, and Italy and about 37 hours later we made it to Le 2 Alpes in France.  There were about 30 of us who all came out together, I'm not sure if everyone was from Udvarhely but they at least all spoke Hungarian.  We stayed in a hotel in the small town at the base of the ski mountain(s).

Here's basically where we went, though you can't quite see Udvarhely on here.

Here are some pictures from the little town.  

This is what the ski mountain looked like from the bottom.

And this is what is looked like from the top.  (And the middle and basically everywhere else.)

Look, I managed to get one people picture.  There's Zenkő, Erika, and György and I at the very top.  In order to get there we had to take two gondolas, and a really snazzy really long rope tow.

We arrived Saturday afternoon and we left again at 3am on the following Saturday so we had a full six days of skiing.  That's almost as much skiing as we do in an entire year at home.  It was great, but also very tiring.  Everyone was very good skiers, and Zenkő skies about the same as I do so that worked out great.

Erika's mom, so my host grandma, came with us.  I think she sort of organized the whole thing but I'm not sure.  She didn't come skiing, but we all ate a big homemade lunch together after we were done skiing every day.  The family staying in the room next to us usually joined us as well, and we skied with them a lot too.  They had a girl about Zenkő's age and a boy in university who was a really good skier and tried to give us lessons.

I'm used to being 'the American' in Udvarhely so it was kind of interesting to go to France and have everyone assume I was just another Hungarian/Romanian person.  All in all we had a great time.  The trails were fantastic, it snowed a bit during the week so they weren't too icy or anything.  The weather was really great most of the time.  It got a bit windy and foggy at the top on occasion but the whole week was very warm so we really lucked out.

On a completely different note... we got a puppy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I knew that Zenkő had been asking for one and that we'd get it eventually, but I had no idea it was coming so soon.  Tádé (Tah-day) is a three-ish month old terrier thing.  I'm not really sure, but he is absolutely adorable.  He has a little pen in the backyard right below my window.