One of the things that I really wanted to have happen while John and Renee visited is for Chad to have a good ski day with his dad. I certainly cannot keep up with Chad so he can enjoy himself and I have been pretty terrified of trying again after our trip in January.

John and Chad spent the day Skiing at the Laax ski resort and Renee and I went down to a nearby city, Chur, for lunch and sight seeing. Chur is the oldest city in Switzerland; it’s earliest inhabitants were in 3000 BC. We were really looking forward to seeing something that was reminiscent of its age but I think we may have set our expectations too high. The walking path talked about in our guide book was not clearly marked like it said and everything closed at 2 pm so it was pretty sleepy. We ended up eating lunch in a Coop restaurant (local grocery store chain) and then heading back to pick up the boys.

Meanwhile, Dad and I had powder to ski. There weren’t any lines on the whole mountain either. On a lot of the runs where the powder was really light, it was the best I’ve seen in a decade. Later in the day the light kept getting flatter and flatter. As a fog settled, we could only see a few feet. The snow stayed good. But we got to tired to ski it by the last two runs. We took it easy. It was so nice to make it back down to the car in one piece.

Oh, and I have to point out that Laax is in the Romanish speaking part of Switzerland. That’s why the apres-ski area at the bottom is called the “Crap Bar.”