Hi Family

Here are a few pics from our weekend mountain biking in Chamonix. Chamonix is a big skiing area near Mont Blanc in France, its about an hours drive away from us in Geneva. The only snow left was on Mont Blanc and the other glaciers that have year-round snow. There were 6 of us, John and I, Gavin (another partner in Johns fund, wore the kilt at our wedding) and his gf Vicks, and Gav's friend from Scotland Lindsey and his gf Susan. We had a guide who had very high expectations of us or he misunderstood our skill level and experience. He said that the difficult trails meant longer (lost in translation), so we decided to do those, ha, there were some uphill trails where all of us had to walk our bikes up, only the guide made it, we would only make it so far and then stop. It was pretty intense and as the guide said, 'technical.' Most of the uphill parts I could manage, but there were some that I didnt even attempt, after watching the boys make it up a few feet, I decided I didnt want to fall off and hurt myself.

So. . . what goes up, must come down, I was super slow on the downhill bits, but John loved it. I would try to go down at a normal speed, but if I was going too fast for my liking, I would get off and walk my bike down, I want to keep all of my teeth, my parents did spend a lot of money on braces and such. John has broken his 2 front teeth mountain biking when he was younger, he has falsees now!

Anyways, it was a great day, we were both pretty sore after, I did make John come shopping with me for padded shorts the day before, heheheh, we wore them under regular shorts. I cant imagine what pain we would have been in had we not worn them. But, we are well now, no more pain and discomfort.

This weekend we have friends coming into town, we are hoping to go canyoning on Saturday, weather permitting, forecast doesnt look good, so we will see. Will def have some pics to share with you if we go. The canyoning would be in Les Marecottes in Switzerland close to Verbier, another big skiing area. Johns parents have a chalet there. Fingers crossed the weather is ok. Lots of Love, Dana and John