Lunch in the country

This past weekend we went down to Merene (in the Langhe wine country) to have lunch with the family who owns the apartment we are staying in. Claudio & Michele flew down in his Jet Ranger and flew Julia and Lila back to Torino. It's about 45 min by car, 16 min by helicopter.

Lila and the youngest Recchi boy, Orlando, in the back - Lila got to fly over her school on the way home.

This is the snow covered yard at the Siniscalco family's country house.

Zermatt 2009

After a long day skiing and a huge lunch with too much wine - hoping to make it down the mountain!

The "kids table" at Chalet Grace.

Playing in the yoga room of Chalet Grace

Gang at the Gornergrat mountain top station (Uve, Jim, Tom, Cris, Sergio, Nuria, Christian, Ana and Julia)

Adult dinner at Chalet Maurice - this is the chalet we stayed in - all new, very nice and very modern.

Kids after dinner - Lila, Claire, Nicole, Sofia, Camilla and the two Alexs in the rear.

Zermatt for the New Year

above: Claire enjoying the skiing, below: Lila at the top for a day of snowboarding

The view from the chalet looking over the town of Zermatt and to the Matterhorn in the distance.

Jules and Fern

We had some serious wind at the top one day with snow - visibility limited. below is Jonathan O.


On New Years day we had about 30cm of fresh snow and Jonathan (shown below), had a really nice double somersault ending with a face plant...

Whenever the kiddos get tired, a hot chocolate will usually perk them back up for some more skiing.

Looks like they approve of the hot coco at this mtn side bar...

Almost all the kids and thier ski guides managed to get into this photo - shows what a fun gang it is.

below: Rod Ward faking a bloody nose (was actually spilt mulled wine)