Winter Holiday - but not for me

So before I start on France things I've found some photos from the holidays that I've forgotten about...

    

I know it's a bit late, or early, only eight months left till they start selling christmas-marsipan in Norway :D

But over to something slightly different. Last week most of Valence was on winter-holiday. But not 4A at ESISAR, that's me. Because we've got a project to finish! But as the profs and the most of the people in the companies we're cooperating with are all gone on vacation, the  week has been pretty chill. Wednesday we had a raclette during lunch break for all the students in the PI that was interested. It was super nice, but you feel more like sleeping than continuing work afterwards...

raclette at ESISAR

I've also finally managed to go skiing, it it turned out a bit more complicated than expected. Mostly because of this little mis match:

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So my advise is not to pack ski equipment in august.  Thus I ended up spending quite a bit of time getting to and from the ski-rental and  standing behind a seemingly endless line of german tourists needing boots, poles, helmets, skis and who knows what!! when all I needed was a pair of skis! By the way, thank you Vicky for showing me to the ski-rental!

But when I finally got out, it was pretty much amazing! Les Deux Alpes was showing it's best side with bluebird and a bit of pow pow I couldn't complain! Not until I realised that the guy who adjusted my bindings hadn't listened when I told him my weight. I realised this while I  was flying through the air after having lost both my skis. Luckily the snow was of the white fluffy type ;)

Finally good to go!

Because of the delayed start, there was no time for breaks. Thereby no pictures lavish lunches with wine and cheese. But a foreseeing buddy had brought something to make the walk back to the bus so much better.

all is well that ends well :)

At least I've learnt the importance of checking your equipment before going anywhere. I hope to be better prepared next time!!

À Bientôt!