Skiing in Falcade

January 18th.

 

Well I'm happy to announce I have now skied in Italy!! Its kind of funny because it didn't feel any different than skiing in WA. Even the drive up to the mountain felt so similar. Windy roads, beautiful green trees, and mountain ranges. We left on Saturday about 1 pm and arrived up to the hotel in Falcade around 4:15. A few of Corey's friends had rented a 2 bedroom apartment so we drove up just for one night. On Saturday we just hung out and Corey and I drove down into town to find some food. Italian restaurants are open at weird times. They were all closed until 7 and then they would only serve dinner until 8:15 or 8:30. I'm still getting used to figuring out what time and days things are open or closed. For example, almost everything is closed on Sundays and during the week a lot of restaurants are closed during the day and don't open until after 6 pm. So if you're out shopping and want to eat about 3 or 4 pm, you're out of luck!  Ok so anyway, we found a little café that was open- it was about 5 pm- we both ordered a Panini and gelato :)

 

 

First a picture by the hotel sign on our way to the café.

 

Then some pictures of our gelato. Corey got some spaghetti gelato- no it doesn't taste like spaghetti ;) They just squeeze it thru a pasta machine thing to shape it like spaghetti. And I got regular caramel gelato. It was yummy!

 

My new snowman friend outside the café :)

Then we went back to the hotel, met up with our friends and walked across the street for dinner when they opened at 7. We had some ok food- not the best, but I have yet to find good pasta in this country and of course there was a lot of wine involved, as usual. I was the only one not drinking wine out of 6 people, but I did have some vodka sodas :) Then we just went back to the hotel and headed to bed so we could wake up at 8 for free breakfast.

January 19th

On our way to go rent ski/snowboard equipment and hit the slopes!

 

 

 

Our first time on the mountain together. Here we are on the ski lift for the first time of the day.

 

Here you can see how difficult it was for us to see. It snowed most of the day which caused our goggles to fog up quite a bit, which in turn made it difficult to see where we were going. Not the best weather conditions for skiing. The last few times I've gone skiing, it has been a clear sunny day, which I prefer :) So we didn't stay out too long plus it was only Corey's second time snowboarding and he was getting tired of falling -poor guy. I didn't fall once though :) I also don't do anything crazy or try to fly down the mountain. I'm a pretty cautious skier.

 

One more of us on the ski lift! This was towards the end of the day when the snow really picked up. We were getting covered just on the lift on the way up to the top.  We also did the bunny slope 3 times which doesn't have a lift- its a rope tow. You just put this disc thing that's attached to a rope on a pully between your legs and it pulls you up the mountain. It was pretty handy!

Last but not least, some pictures I took with my Nikon camera for my photography class I'm taking.

 

 

And here is the video to recap our ski trip :)

 

 

(P.S. I know I blink a lot when I record myself lol. No idea why so don't judge :) )

 

 



Overall we had a pretty good time. Didn't get injured and left with smiles on our faces. The scenery was really beautiful on our way home. I just love all the trees with snow on them. And it really does remind me of driving to Eastern Washington. Oh makes me miss home. We got home in time to make dinner, take naps, then we watched the Hawks dominate the 49rs = Super Bowl bound!! I'm so excited for my home team and so wish I could watch that game with family and friends. But what a great experience to get to watch it with new friends here in Italy. Corey will be up in Germany so we can't even watch it together, which is a huge bummer. Oh well, that's the military life for ya!