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Lainie – from Zero to Hero in a day

So after a very silent journey to Orcierre Merlette, where it was honestly the first time I think I have not heard Lainie talk for over half and hour. The poor thing was obviously very nervous. Once we arrived at the ski reort it was very obviously very late session but there was more than enough snow for Lainie to try her hand at skiing. After a quick lesson of how to put the skis on and off and how it works we were off….. So first off I pulled her up the hill. she was so nervous to get any speed up she was hardly moving. After an hour or so of trying we decided it was time for lunch.
In came plan B, so we plied her with cider over lunch and decided it was time for the lift….DNW_1531

Amazingly she found it no trouble at all and never fell offDNW_1545
So once at the top it was time for her to use some of the grrrr from watching last nights monster trucks and get on with it.DNW_1545
So following the ski instructor (aka Lara) she really got the knack of it!

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She learny that snow was not evil and it didn’t hurt when you fell over!
I think it was at this point the cider was really kicking in and she was loving it.

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By the end of the afternoon she was loving it turning with no problems what so ever. So Euan, I apologise but I think I might have cost you some money and you might have to be taking your wife on a ski holiday. If you have to, I would suggest the cider approach!

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One happy ski instructor happy with the fact that she has got her mate to ski (I even think Lainie over took her once……)

Playing with Lainie

So for Lainie’s first day we decided to take her on her first Via Ferrata. We went to Guillestre and there is great little Via Ferrata there that goes up a deep gorgeDNW_1490

Lara and Lainie going along the gorgeIMG_0054
Lainie climbing up the side, after a little nervousness she found her legs and loved it and was running up and down the place with out a care in the world!IMG_0061
The water looked great, if not a little cold.IMG_0061
Lainie and I traversing around the gorge, was hard to hear each other due to the noise of the water

In the evening we went to the monumentous show that was the french monster truck show! where we saw things like this……DNW_1506

The oh so mighty POWER SPEED TRUCK!!!!! It was awesome. Then this got bettered by this….

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The ROAD BOSS!!!! The biggest monster truck in the world, it made such an amazing grumble when they turned it on. But in all honesty the thing was too long and could only go forward and backwards in the small arena. But still a very impressive machine. So much so the girls fell in love with it

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After watching all the testorone and big growling engines the girls where feeling the grrrrrr and tapped into the NarDNW_1512
I must sign off now as I have some serious googling to do to see if I can get some mods for the van to get some big wheels on it and jack up the suspension if I am going to win my wife back!