White Wedding

Paul & Lisa's big day has arrived, and whilst Martin & Jilly took off to cram in some skiing, we were told to assemble in the bar for eleven to toast the groom.

Many drinks later the most of the rest of the party assembled and we were treated to our first look at the bridesmaids dresses and their amazing "wedding-tons"

Suzie also managed to once more display her impeccable sense of style...

The venue for the wedding was Kaprum castle. I have no idea of it's history, but it looked like a brilliant place for a wedding, and what a backdrop!

Lisa, being an ex wedding planner, had an amazing eye for detail, she had literally thought of everything, from hand made flower confetti bags, to decorating all of the chairs, wrapping them in silk bows, everything looked amazing

The lovely ceremony, Lisa placing the ring

The happy couple

Lots of time during the photos to mingle and take silly pictures. Disapproving look from Paul at breaking the camera

Simon rehearsing his speech in his head

Sleigh ride through Kaprum

'Cutting the heart' race, the lovely wedding breakfast, Simons speech on behalf of Terry, then Paul B's great best man speech and videos!

Mr & Mrs Saint's first dance (Metallica, Nothing Else Matters)

Scrabble and photo booth

Getting very drunk

Carving up Kitzsteinhorn!

Yesterday (Monday) we decided to head up to a good blue run that Paul thought would suit us as a group, so we suited up and jumped on the bus, heading for the 'glacier' on Kitzsteinhorn.

We jumped straight onto the first of two cable cars to take us up to the top of the mountain, and were immediately rewarded with a view from above the clouds

What a view!

The mountains in the bright morning sunshine were simply amazing, but lots of other boarders / skiiers thought so too :-)

The run was way more steep than the nursery slope that we learnt on, but Paul, Lisa and Simon guided us down the run to start with, so we knew the layout and where the tricky parts were

We all jumps straight into it after that, and sped down the slopes as fast as we could getting in everyone's way an generally having a blast. We stopped half way through at the midpoint of the run for a cheeky hot chocolate with rum before carrying on and after a couple of hours we were knackered but smiling, even if Georgia couldn't stay upright!

Once we made it back down to Terra firma, a plan was hatched for getting everyone to the Pavilion, a nice cheesy bar in town for drinks to celebrate the forthcoming nuptials, and even though it's the day before the wedding, too much beer was consumed!

Oh my God that hurts!

Today (Sunday), and whist Paul, Lisa and a few other hardy fools went up the mountain to hurl themselves down again, Suz and I along with the rest of the gang here who hadn't skiid before or for a long time got a lesson with the lovely Petra. We started off from scratch but it wasn't long before we were snow ploughing and turning happily

After lunch though we progressed from the baby slope to a real slope with button lifts and everything. Here we managed to to get up some real speed, so we were turning on a sixpence and screaming down the slopes with abandon - great fun!

Right now though, my legs hurt, so I'm looking forward to getting onto a real blue run with the rest of the gang, even if they are all boarders.

Blog trotting again!

Well Suzie and I are off galavanting about the globe once more, this time to lovely Austria where our friends Paul & Lisa are going to get hitched in a lovely castle, but of course, being Austria in February means that there will be plenty of snow to zoom about on too, so we're taking the camera and will try not to break anything (like limbs!) whilst we're over there. More snowy posts to follow...!