New Photos

Here are some new old photos from the Fall in CB.
http://picasaweb.google.com/mhewing/FallInCB09

And here are some new photos of the last few days here in Courchevel. If you click rapidly through the last few you'll see how crazy the tiny little airport is here!! Taking off from a cliff has got to be a rush (I'm hoping to get to fly while we're here). What you see is what you get with this runway - there are no go arounds or aborted takeoffs...

http://picasaweb.google.com/mhewing/France1109#

We are off to make some Chicken Cordon Bleu!

Our First week in France and change of address

So we made it!! We currently don't have internet at our house yet. So we're sitting in an ATM booth using the bank's free internet afterhours... classy.

Last night was our first night in our apartment despite being here for almost a week already!! Mitch has taken great care of us (he was the French patroller that came to America last year). Our first stop on the way home from the airport was at his bootleg distillery for some traditional French spirits... whooeee!! Welcome to France!

Charley loves everyone and everyone loves Charley (as per usual) - she fits right in and loves the French lifestyle and the French dog food... and Sausage... we think that everyone remembers her more than they remember us.

We spent this past weekend at the Grand Opening for Les Trois Valees (The Three Valleys) which was held at Val Thorens (the highest of the 3 valleys). In a few short weeks we'll be able to ski there from our front door... and it was over an hours drive away!! Craziness. The size of this place is mind blowing and we haven't even begun to see a fraction of it. The party was ridiculous... we may be getting too old for the French nightlife... or at least that's how we felt on Sunday morning!

The food and the wine have been spectacular along with everything else! We miss you all and will update you again soon!

Here are some pictures - let us know if you can't see them:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=161922&id=736829364&l=5eedd02fdc&

We made a slight change to our address...

Mark and Liz Ewing
Chalet S3V
Rue De Cospillot
73120 Courchevel
Savoie, France

Address in France

Hello all - in case you wanted to send us anything while we're in France... here's our new address:

Mark and Liz Ewing
Chalet S3V
Rue De Cospillot
73120 Courchevel
Savoie, France

Hard to believe we're leaving on Monday!! We love you all!

Off we go

The photos above all came from Tom (the ski patroller that went to Courchevel last year).

Yeah - Facebook has ruined our blog... which is no fun cause you can't look back in the archives of facebook and read everything... we'll try to remedy that while we're in France.... speaking of:

11 more days till we're off to France for the ski season! Hope you're all doing well and are well into the planning stages of booking your trip to come visit us in France!

Life has been good here - we're both currently unemployed as we pack up our lives and our dog and prepare for an incredible 6 months overseas! Halloween was a blast - started the day off with some powder skiing in the backcountry followed by an evening of ridiculousness!

Check out these if you haven't before:
http://www.courchevel.com/
http://www.courchevel.com/img/plans/plan_pistes3v.pdf - ski area map - woot BIGGEST IN THE WORLD!

Here are some fall photos if you haven't seen them already:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=33520

Our email addresses (and facebook) will remain the same - our phone numbers will be turned off for 6 months - but we'll have skype. Our username is mark.h.ewing - and we'll eventually have a land line as well.

I'll post our address on here as well so you can all send us care packages of fun American things that we miss... who knows - maybe you'll get a fun care package back with fun French things!!

We'll miss you all!!