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New boots, and yes, silly fat skis.

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A lovely day at Jane’s wedding.

  
My girl was simply stunning.

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It’s the big day on Saturday, so we’re all summoned to St Laurences for a practice. Walking Jane down the aisle. .

Jane and Richard checking out the high altar.

Really good meeting everyone before the event.

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We’ve not seen Steve, Jan and the girls since they left Wengen in February, so it was lovely to see them all last night. Thanks for great company and a delicious dinner!

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Very competitive quiz last night, we ended up in second place behind our mates from Altitude ski school. As this is our last quiz of the season they sportingly shared the prosecco with us.

Val,  Alison, Sian and myself made up our team this week.

Today we’ve been packing our belongings into bags and boxes as we’re leaving tomorrow. We’ve been renting this apartment for 7 years now and it’s odd to think that we won’t be coming back to it. We do need to find something a bit cheaper for long stays though, so fingers crossed our plans will come together.

Outside it’s mild, sunny and spring has definitely arrived. Many of the ski lifts will close this weekend, and there’s an end of season atmosphere about the village. A heat haze spoils the view across the valley most afternoons.

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It’s another lovely day, and I’ve borrowed Bob’s fat skis again. Deserted pistes at Männlichen.

After a few runs we have coffee and ski round to Scheidegg. From here you can get to a place called Eigergletscher which as the name suggests, is at the foot of the Eiger glacier. Here’s the famous north face.

After lunch things start to get a bit soft and slushy, but despite this we’ve had our best day of the season with almost 5000 vertical metres.

Val has an app which records our route today.

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We had a lovely Thai meal at the Bären with Beanie, Sandro and the kids last night. This morning the sun was out again, and we popped over to Murren to escape the weekend crowds.

It’s really warm and the snow is soft and slushy. No problem for Val on her new skis. We had lunch in Lauterbrunnen as it’s half the price of eating at a mountain restaurant, and for the first time this season it’s warm enough for ice creams on the balcony.