New Year

for new year's this year, T., Mr. J. and i took a train up to the Swiss Alps - La Tzoumaz - where Mr. J's girlfriend's family's friends have a huge chalet. after a perilous journey up the mountain where we barely missed driving into another car, we arrived to loads of snow pouring down (see pic below) and met our hosts, who were absolutely lovely - honestly, it felt like we were all old friends. the 14 of us had a delicious dinner, after which we all set out to the town centre to enjoy the fireworks. it was great, walking in the snow (about 30cms fell in the 6 hours we'd been there) although it would have been better if it had stopped - every time we looked up at the fireworks, we were blinded by the snowflakes.

back at the chalet, us young ones had all surrendered by 2am while all the 'oldies' were up till 5! still, a great new year.

pic courtesy of T.