The Land of Chocolate, Cheese and Cuckoo Clocks.

The only good thing about coming home from Switzerland is if you have managed to make it without any skiing injuries you can breathe a sigh of relief. Otherwise its just really depressing. For me it feels like I've been dumped or something - honestly! I am completely in love with the place we go to. Its a tiny little village with no cars and not very much to do and I would love to live there. My dad reckons that you'd go mad after a couple of weeks but I am easily amused so I think I'd be ok. Maybe I'll work a season over there when I've finished uni.

On the injuries front, I got my sigh of relief - no broken bones this year I just pulled a muscle in my neck because a snowboarder ploughed into me which was very annoying because that was the only fall I had all week (except when I fell down some stairs going to the bathroom which left me sprawled on my back on the floor) and even though it was definately his fault I received a torrent of abuse in German.

I was really bad at taking pictures as well because my camera was getting on my nerves. All of the ones from the night are blurry and the ones from the day are equally as bad because it was too bright to see the screen. My dad hated using it too so he offered to get me a new one for my birthday which is super! Anyway here are a couple of the OK ones just to set the scene:

Me and my mum... (this isn't the best photo of her!) Her ski suit is Spyder and mine is Roxy.
Scarf - H&M, Goggles - Scott, (completely unmatching)Helmet - Uvex.

I love how all of the buildings look like Gingerbread houses.

Mary's Cafe - so much snow on the roof! It didn't stop snowing for the first three days of our holiday.

There is also a bar on the top of the mountain that is inside a Tipi and it always has really loud fun music playing inside it and exciting things like this cow on skis:

And finally this was the view from my balcony:

I didn't really have any good nights out or anything because the people I would usually go out with went the week before this year so there are no apres ski type pictures unfortunately.

I ran into town today to have a quick browse through the shops and thought I'd pop into Next because they have been advertising loads recently and some of the stuff looks quite nice. They even did a little booklet for Elle. In the actual store though, it was just as mumsy as ever. They didn't even have any nice shoes or anything - very disappointing!

This week I am desperate for these Vivienne Westwood beautys but I need to assess my finances because I've got loads of things coming up - I'm going out for a birthday meal tomorrow, go-karting on Saturday and the following weekend dog-sitting in the Lake District, all of which I am very excited about(!), but I have just had the past two weekends off work which means no money for me. Oh but the shoes... Perhaps I'll just have to be patient.