second day on the slippery slopes of st anton

It was a real struggle getting out of bed most days never mind when your on your holidays and me and cammy are worse than most

.in the morning we arrived at the nasserien lift ali wanted to find a shop and cammy wanted to change his boots again ! so we sat around a fair bit longer than normal Ali never found a shop, but cammy did get his 3rd set of boots and off we set a little late but hey organising stuff like that takes time, i had to go ask at the cash desk about gary’s ski pass they said they would refund me the the 5 euros for the card and thats it if he hadn’t broke a leg or arm ! so i kept the card stashed it away in a place it wouldn’t be detected as being used 

when we eventually got going things were good then sun was out there was plenty snow we had a better idea of which ski area we wanted to get to , but i started feeling really ill every time the skiing got to be hard work my legs ached and i was starting to feel sick , i soldiered on but i wasnt  right ! by mid day we reached a ski area called Alpe rauz there was a mountain top bar /restaurant with cracking views in the right weather , but cloud had came in and it was cold and i was not at my usual strength , so we had 3 bowls of goulash soup( very popular here ) and i had a beer thinking it was possibly the red wine from last nights dinner making me feel bad ! i was bloody cold and miserable it started to snow a little but cold overcast rubbish small drops of snow 

i couldn’t see right when we started skiing again , and worse i changed my glasses 3 times trying different visibility combos as it was dull making the turns hard work , 

    In short the afternoons skiing was poor compared to the morning and i just wanted it over by 2pm ,on a plus side cammys new boots seemed to be ok and his skiing was going ok he only fell once all day regained his confidence and was loving the slopes again , 

I’m still just gonna blame the red wine with dinner as a bug would have been more long term so i had no red wine with dinner actually no wine at all i stuck to the water .

that was off course after we had a beer at fang bar when we came off the slopes and popped into tom dooleys before dinner . as for tom dooleys its a smoking bar we love it but hate the smoking , the beers are great and the bar girl is from Glasgow but people are allowed to smoke in the bar ! Austria has this law where they don’t inforce a smoking ban they leave it up to the premises , so some bars allow smoking some don’t I’m ok with that but it just seems to be the best bars are the smoking ones and especially our local ,! 

we had stopped skiing early because i wasn’t right and i went to my room for an afternoon nap 4-7 but didn’t sleep all that much just lazed trying to sleep i guess ,dinner was very nice except Ali dropped his glass of wine on our table ! lol ,

we got a message from gary he is gonna make it for wednesday night magic so we told the chalet staff and started making plans for his arrival, Tuesday is chalet staff night off and its also garys birthday but he arrives wednesday .turns out theres two other people in the chalet having birthdays on tuesday tomorrow , 

after a swift beer at tom dooleys we decided to march into town cammy kept saying he was going to go to bed ,but it was the old one more beer scenario , we walked up the main street and stopped at cafe bar its another smoking bar and my clothes are actually starting to smell of cigarette smoke so we left, Ali hates the smoking bars, we then went into bar 37 which only holds 37 people hence the name that was cool they played great tunes a non smoking bar decent drinks so we stayed for two ,then we moved on to cuba bar it was jumping and playing some cool music in an excellent atmosphere we had two beers but we were all shattered and decided we would march back to tom dooleys as they had a band on , the band were awesome and we found a corner away from most of the smoke so not a bad end to our busy day