Snow for Aidens birthday

Well, the big news in house over the weekend was that Aiden turned 3 yesterday so Anne and I held a little birthday party celebration for him in Chalet Martin in Meribel le Raffort. It was a good afternoon with some of his friends and their parents, and we all got to eat cake ... and tart ... and chicken ... sausages ... pizza, wedges, crisps, coke, juice, more cake ......

The 3 of us are now on a very strict diet of leftover party food for the next 4 days.

Of course, because we were organising a party, and despite there being blue skies in the morning, the weather was always going to deteriorate just in time for the first guests to arrive.

And it did. To be honest it was not at all terrible, but the clouds did come in and the temperatures dropped. As a result the kids ended up playing inside the chalet for the afternoon. Later on it was amazing to see the parents calmly sat around the dining table, or in the lounge, while a dozen hyperactive kids erupted about the chalet, full of great tasting sugar and  chemicals.

We only just managed to load the kids up with a few extra e numbers before their lucky parents got to take them away, I am sure they were grateful for our kind deeds. At the same time as all this was taking place the weather continued to get worse and by early evening we could hear rain outside the window.

This morning when we woke the temperature had dropped even more, and it was starting to feel wintry outside. Later, on the drive back to our village, it was snowing on the road between Meribel Village and La Tania. The snow was lying on the ground at about resort level and the cars coming down from Courchevel 1850 had a good few inches of snow on them! A nice thing to see with just under 8 weeks left to the start of our ski season. I think we may be planning an outdoor birthday party for Aiden every year from now on!

This photo of snow on the ground behind a small group of chalets was taken this afternoon on our way back from Meribel.