A little piece of England in France.

Last week while it was snowing in England, we took a break from visiting castles and went to La Plagne in France for a weeks skiing. It is much safer being in France than England since they seem to know how to deal with snow in France.
Sarah organised for us to stay in a chalet hotel run by an English company that specialised in running family ski holidays. I think almost everyone staying in the hotel had kids and anyone that did not was a grandparent. All the guests were from the UK and so were all the staff. Here is the view from our hotel room.

View from out hotel room

Our one complaint about the room was that it was very hot. Despite numerous attempts to cool the room, it still felt like we were back in Sydney. In the end we slept with the door to the balcony open.
The kids were booked in for all day lessons for the first five days and we took advantage of the ski hosting to learn our way around the mountain. The kids had lunch back the hotel each day while we got to sample the on-mountain dining.

On the final Saturday we went skiing with the kids. There were 5 children and 6 adults. Our friends Lisa, Michael and Immi had joined us and Immi had been in ski lessons. Ella also had met a Scottish girl in her lessons and we had met her parents during the hosting.

After a few runs in the morning, which also included a run through the jumps in the snow parks and a few crashes we headed into one of the restaurants for the kid's favourite après-ski activity: hot chocolate.

We then headed out again and followed the kids around as they skied between trees and tried to find every jump and bump that they could on the side of the runs.
We made it safely to lunch, where everyone took advantage of the deck chairs.