A visit from Longford

We are delighted to welcome our Longford cousins to Cartagena. Tara, Joanne and Tony bunk in with Ruby and Colm while Jane and Donagh stay a hotel 5 minutes away. We do a highlights tour of the city over a day and a half and then pack up the 9 seater rental van and head for the ski slopes in Sierra Nevada.
We arrive at dusk and have a quick go zooming down the ski slope on our little shovel sledges. The kids are all exhausted when we are out at dinner so they go home a bit earlier. When we get back to the apartment they have a surprise party ready to celebrate Donagh’s birthday.
First thing the next morning everyone is up and ready, this is Tara, Tony and Joanne’s first time skiing and they have lesson at 10am. I am not skiing because I twisted my ankle rollerblading down a hill the day before our visitors arrived. I am limping around with crutches so the only thing for me is to be the chalet girl. I cook and clean and bring picnics up the mountain for all the athletes
They are all really enjoying the skiing and with such a big group different people pair up at different times. Donagh and Colm make a perfect pair and the two of them fly down numerous slopes together. Ruby decides to try out snowboarding, so she hangs out with her cousins on the green slopes.
At least I get to join in for the apres ski while the kids happily expend their last bit of energy sledging before the sun goes down.
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