St. Patty's Day Ski Trip

After my parents returned from Zermatt, we spent another day and a half in Geneva, just relaxing and resting. They were exhausted from their travels. Three cities in a week is a lot of travelling! But they survived and loved getting to know Switzerland.  It was sad to see them go, but I'm so thankful that they were able to come and visit and see what our lives are like here in Geneva. Love you guys!!

So we got back into the normal swing of things here, and the weekend after they left, Travers, Shelley, Mike and I drove to Verbier for what we think was our last ski trip this season! And it also happened to be St. Patty's Day! So we got up super early, like 6am, and caught an early train to Verbier. Two transfers and a gondola later we were at the base of Verbier, ready to ski! Other than Zermatt, this was the only other time we have been able to ski in Switzerland. All our other ski trips were in France, so we were excited to get some Swiss skiing in again.

The weather unfortunately wasn't too great, but visibility was decent, and it wasn't too cold. There just wasn't a ton of sun. But we handled it fine, and enjoyed our last day. We skied for a few hours, taking this gondola up to the very top of the mountain, and then we stopped for lunch at this little hut in the middle of the mountainside.

Gondola to the top!

Yummy Tartiflette for lunch!

The weather wasn't getting much better so after skiing again for a couple hours after lunch, we called it a day pretty early, and found an apres ski bar in the middle of the mountain called Bar 1936.  Shelley and I had some vin chaud, and the boys had beers. The sun came out every so often and we sat in beach lounge chairs and watched the skiers that went by.

Mike throwing a snowball
at the camera!

Mike and Me enjoying the sun!

Shelley with a great view of
Verbier behind her!

Me and Travers!

An hour or two later, we skied down to the base and found a fun restaurant/bar called Pub Mont Fort for some apres ski snacks and live music, before catching the train back to Geneva.

Beautiful Verbier sunset!

For a last day of the season ski trip, we didn't do as much skiing as I had originally thought. But we had so much fun just taking in the experience of it all, and enjoying being in the snow and on the mountain as much as possible.  There's a chance we might go in April for one more ski trip, but not likely as the snow is getting worse and worse and we are all getting busier and busier now that Spring is here.

Au revoir la neige! Bonjour le printemps!