Big week...

We've had a pretty massive week, we've painted 8 rooms, a kitchen, dining room, two 13 foot ceilings, 8 shelves, 3 coffee tables, and 4 hooks... Oh and everything needing 3 coats. We've put up two sets of skis and 6 poles, reattached 8 shelves, 1 heater, 2 mirrors and 3 paintings. I've vaccummed and mopped three levels 4 times and cleaned endless amounts of paint off the walls, skirting and beams. We've climbed ladders and chairs, leant precariously over stair case banisters and worked out our calves going up and down on tippy toes. Alex has fixed a toilet and started to render 2 ceilings and I've lost at least an inch off both arms and legs. I also managed to dip my hair in paint, so I had to cut almost an inch off.  Most days I manage to coat myself in paint, my tights are covered in various colours and I've had a lot of questions about whether I get the paint on the walls or just myself. 

We finished our manic week with a dinner party with Farmer John, Alice and Jack. I cooked red curry and it as delcious, we've missed thai! It was so awesome talking to Alice and Jack as they have done about 7 seasons, plus Jack is a chef so has been giving heaps of tips, like everything takes longer to cook in high altitude. 

Jimbo came over after he closed up the drop inn! We sat and drank until 2am, it was such an awesome night with awesome company. We accidentally spent a lot of time talking about all the things that can kill you in Australia (a lot of people's favourite subject) so we may have three less english people visiting our shores! Sorry Tourism Queensland! 

We've made another friend, a lovely French girl Sophie. She's currently living in Georgie's apartment in La Praz, he ex boyfriend used to be he Handy man, Alex has actually replaced him this winter. She has lots of advice which is so welcomed. We met her last week when we needed to fix a few things in the apartment and have seen or spoken to her almost every day including a lovely dinner. She's amazing, I love spending time with her. 

We spent Saturday relaxing at home and then headed up to the international junior ice skating competition, Sophie had gotten us tickets for the Gala event and it's was amazing. Most of the winners were from France, Japan, Ukraine and Russia, they were incredible! I hope some of you saw my snap chats. 

Alice rang after we'd left and told us to come down to the pizzeria. It was 7 degrees, but luckily I had my ski jacket. Everyone had been to Meribel that day, as there had been a downhill mountain biking comp. We were going to go but couldn't be bothered to deal with the traffic. Wish we had of gone as an Australian won and supposedly 'Ausssie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi' was dismal, only 3 people were yelling it back. 

Everyone was pretty well on their way, so we were a bit behind. We stayed in the pizzeria for a while and then followed Jimbo up to the tent to see what was going on. There was a tough mudder event the next day, so it was mental! French people jumping, singing and just generally being crazy. It was all a bit full on for us, we weren't really feeling it so we walked home with a very drunk and seriously hilarious Jimbo! Telling us stories about how he met and hugged Rat Boy, a mountain biker. We've never laughed more then we have in the last few days! 

We woke up in the morning and went to meet Sophie to watch the Tough mudder event. It was pretty hilarious watching people all dressed up running around Le Praz. They had to jump into the Lake which was only 9 degrees, we had a good laugh listening to them scream as they hit the water. 

One group of people were dressed as priests and were carrying a massive cross. 

Jimbo was competing for the Drop Inn, but we didn't see him. Farmer told us that someone had written Drop Inn on his forehead but had spelt it wrong, and wrote Dropp Inn and then had to crossout the extra P. 

We decided that we would all go up to Suliere which is the highest point in Courchevel which is over 3000 metres. It was -1 up there, so we rugged up and drove up to 1850 with Sophie. We got the lift up, which was pretty full on as I'm a little (a lot) scared of heights. We then got another, even more full on lift to go up the rest of the way, and funnily bumped into Alice and Jack, who had packed a picnic and we're walking back down to Le Praz. We walked up and down the mountain for about an hour with Sophie, which was an eye opening insight into how unfit I was. It's pretty hard to breath that high up, especially having done no serious exercise for almost 6 months. We saw some seriously breathtaking views, it was amazing to see all of the surrounding mountains including Mount Blanc, the highest point in Europe at height of 4,810m. After the walk, we realised that we hadn't had lunch and it was 3:45pm. We headed back down in the lift (me with sweaty palms) and grabbed some lunch. We did a bit of shopping with Sophie and then came home and jumped in the hot tub. It had finally been fixed and we were super excited to get in, it was so nice after the walk. 

Tomorrow we're back at the apartment to paint the lounge room and hall way. Sophie is headed off to Geneva tomorrow so hopefully we won't intrude too much. 

All in all, we having an awesome time. We've met the most amazing people!!!  We spent the weekend laughing, talking, drinking and eating. It's been such a great weekend, I wish we could do it all again!