Go Big or Go home on your butt

Friday, December 28th 2018 would be our last full day in Austria.  We wanted to ski and spent time as a family.  This was either going to be epic or an epic failure.  Ashley had recovered enough to come with us today so it looked to be a great day for all.

The sun was just peeking over the Alps as we left the he boot room and headed back towards Serfaus and the runs from Tuesday.  Spirits were high and AC/DC rocked the gondola.

Morning stretches.  We are going to need to be flexible and strong today.

SA, G-Money and the Germans 

We elected to ski over by Serfaus again so it was a lot of skiing and riding chairs but eventually everyone go to Masnerkopf.  The views were amazing.  

Wow.  It is a beautiful day

At the checkpoint.  Elle: Mom, why do you always ski so slow? Lara.  Smoke comes out of her ears. Next 3 runs  Lara and Elle ski pretty close together.  Elle: “. I am glad I gave you that pep talk mom.

The Anseth family 

Abby and Katie

These guys are crazy.

While Elle, Lara, TB and I skied.  The rest of the crew stopped for some hot chocolate and lunch.  While Elle was giving her mom a pep talk, TB was creating an international incident by whacking the ski poles of the guy trying to push Lara out of his way to the chairlift, Mi Familia !!!! Mi Familia!!!  Was the battle cry.  The others relaxed on mountain high enjoying WiFi and hot chocolates.

Is the G asleep or pondering her next move?

Do you think we had enough hot chocolate?

We would have gotten back to skiing a little sooner but an epic game of foosball broke out.

Sophie and Abby truing hard to make a comeback!!

TB and Grace rule the Austrian Alps in foosball.  #makefoosballgreatagain.

Another great Coke and some pasta

Kari getting ready to ski back to the resort.

But wait let’s take some more pictures

All the girls smiling before we ski home.

Abby and Grace are locked and loaded

The way home was harder then the way out.  Most were tired.  Kari’s thumb hurt from a fall.  Also, the way back was a lot icier due to the warm conditions.  Sliding down one of the steeper slopes Ashley had had enough and tried to slide down on her butt.  This met with little or no success.  The moment could have gone either way-  a complete meltdown or rising to the challenge.  We had a little yelling and decided that Option 1: sliding to Fiss on our butt was not going to work. Option 2: taking our skis off and walking to Fiss was not a good choice either.  Option 3:  point your skis down hill and handle the challenges as they come.  So option 3 was what we did- slow and steady and back to Fiss.  Once there TB and Elle asked if we should take one more run, so we did.  Unfortunately my legs were only good about 1/2 the distance so I had to grind it out to keep up but we all made it home in one piece.

Let’s go girls 

One of the view from my last run.  Listening to Thunderstruck.  Does it get any better?

Just before we drop the skis off for good.  Not a bad ending to an Austrian ski week.

Full House this week.  Thank you Ladis-Fiss-Serfaus.

On last food pictures. Octopus and squid.  Not a bad way to finish 

We played a little late night What do you meme?  I don’t remember who won or do I? The point was we had a great night of laughter and a little 🍷.  Tomorrow is a travel day so we will see what happens.