I was lucky to get to spend three weeks back at home in Virginia from 24 December 2016 – 13 January 2017. The first two weeks were purely holidays for me and the last week was spent working on my client that’s in Virginia. It was an amazing time filled with time spent with family, friends and being home. Here’s a summary in photos!
I met my friends Sally and Andrew when I first moved to San Francisco, bonding over the fact that we had all just moved to CA from from Northern VA. They moved back to VA since then and I got to visit with them and their adorable little boy Charlie for an afternoon.
On 30 December my Mom, cousin Owen, uncle Gregg and I hiked to the Big Schloss, where we spread my father’s ashes. It was cold out and we hiked through passing snow squalls. It was a good time and we were all happy to make it to the mountain together. Afterwards we stopped at the Winery at Lagrange for a wine tasting and hung out together over a glass of wine.
JMU, my alma mater, made it into the NCAA FSC National Championship game against Youngstown State (and won!). I went to a watch party at Chinese Disco in Georgetown with a bunch of friends. Also saw some people I hadn’t seen in a handful of years!With friends at the JMU watch party
The three weeks back in Virginia was fantastic and I am truly so thankful to have had the opportunity to be home for so long. Now, I’m back in Switzerland and it’s started to snow here finally! Sunday Andrew and I made our way to Portes du Soleil, which coincidentally is where we went this exact same weekend last year. The snow was as good as it gets and we managed to get some sun for a part of the day between snow storms. We had a blast and now we’re ready to kick it into gear for the work week. Plenty more winter trips coming up soon!
Just popped over the border into France for some skiing 🙂 Portes du Soleil crosses into both Switzerland and France. It’s a massive network of resorts and was so fun to explore.Morning drive along the lake towards the Alps. So beautiful with the snow! Believe it or not, it is not common to get snow down by the lake. It’s a rare sight for us and we loved getting to witness it!
[…] access to Portes du Soleil, which is the same area we’ve skiied a few other times (see this post when we skiied out of Champéry in January). This is the network that allows you to access ski […]
[…] access to Portes du Soleil, which is the same area we’ve skiied a few other times (see this post when we skiied out of Champéry in January). This is the network that allows you to access ski […]
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