Optimism

We had one early morning ski run and now the weather has closed in completely and we are back in the apartment.

Had a coffee stop and laughed at the humour of the mountain cafe owner's decor...such optimism, a sun lounger, palm trees, loud music playing...I guess when the sun is shining one can lie back and pretend you are on a tropical island somewhere (if you ignore the dead weight of ski boots attached to your feet). There is a sliver of blue on the horizon, but the mist has come in now and the weather won't improve much over the weekend. With all this bad weather everywhere I was wondering if this is finally our punishment for centuries of abusing our planet...

Funnily enough the bar/cafe was run by a young hippy type English guy. He was playing this game of knocking nails into the top of a wooden barrel. I have seen this game being played before and I asked him all about it - it seems that one is given 3 nails and you have to hammer each nail into the barrel with the narrow edge of a hammer - when alcohol is involved it becomes increasingly more difficult and funnier - more painful I would think when you miss hit. He said he tried to take the game home to England but Health and Safety were having none of it...now there's a surprise! I asked the name of the game - the reply was Nails!