The Leonetti Family - Italia
L  I  N  K  S
Another  PERFECT Ski Day!

It has been SO foggy here
in Milan - that my weekend
ski days are therapy. And
today I had a dose of
vitamin D and I got girl time
too ~ yahoo!!! Was so
happy to spend a day with
the lovely Trillium.

Yesterday Joe had man ski
time with Michael ~ T's boy.

Two great ski days ~
Gressoney, Italia

Tomorrow off to Barcelona -
looking forward to seeing
my colleagues.

3 febbraio 2013

below right ~ busted bota
bag. Damn.
Joe had a perfect ski day with Lin. I
had planned on going, but Zaven, with
the flu, fainted last night and hit his
head - so of course we coudn't risk
him being home alone and passing
out. I am happy Joe had a great day
and I got to be domestic...smoothies
and chicken soup.

Lin looks like a sinister Alpen hitman!

Week after next Avalon flies down and
we have ski vacay! We all need to be
well.

Madesimo, Italia
10 febbraio 2013
Oh what a gorgeous send off. I
had a busy work week in
Barcelona - but made the most of
it as who knows the next time I will
be there with my new job.

Barcelona, Spain
4-8 febbraio 2013
My last training session...
A few of my lovely
colleagues who came
and had cava with me. So
thankful for these
wonderful people who I
have had the pleasure to
work with. .
Ms. Madrid who made
this beautiful card and
had everyone sign it and
organized my dinners
and cava. She is the
BEST!
No let's call the taxi and
tell them to come later - I
won't miss my flight (while
drinking more cava). And
um look at me - I couldn't  
manage to get my coat
on properly - scarf under
belt #toomuchfun

Adios Barcelona!!!
It was so sunny and
gorgeous at the
vacation house, we
rolled out our beach
loungers (Joe's idea)
laid in the sun and
had a picnic on the
hill

Perfect

15-18 febbraio
Serole, Italia
Avalon arrived weary
from Denmark.

So happy to have us
all in the same
country!

Joe and I are off to
ski vacay tomorrow -
Sestriere. I have
Zaven's sickness
now - ugh.

18 febbraio
Ski Vacay 2013

Sestriere
~ Sauze D'Oulx Italy

Yes where they held the
2006 Torino Winter
Games

The largest ski area in
Italy 400+ kilometers of
slopes. Sestriere was built
by the Agnelli family in the
1930s and well as my
friend Maurizio said..."Una
brutta posta." I must
concur. And I always
forget ski vacay means
being around a lot of
English people on their ski
vacations. Ugh. Great
slopes but some of the
buildings, I suspect
because of the Olympics,
were 'thrown up' - or
because the Agnelli family
were Mussolini supporters
and not in the lovely
Fascist architecture
way...the buildings were
FUG.
Day 3 ~ the weather
changed - look at the pea
soup behind me. Still a
good day of skiing
Joe with his great winter
tan.
Day 2 ~ Beautiful! We
skied over toward France
The signs point to...home.

Tomorrow Interlaken
Switzerland for night time
sledding.

21 febbraio 2013
Me 'discussing' with the
senora that I had asked
for Nebbiolo...and saw her
pour the pickle juice out of
the box and could I please
have something
else...Shame on you
Sestriere Piemontese -
this is the wine capital of
the world!
Interlaken ~ Jungfrau ~
Eiger ~ Grindelwald

Gorgeous Switzerland!!!

Love it. We decided that
for ski vacay 2014, we will
venture out of Italy to visit
this area. We have been
here before, back in 2002,
but in our early days in
Europe  the beauty of this
region was lost on us. Plus
I LOVE the movie & story of
Nordwand

We came for the night
sledding - Beatenberg -
Niederhorn - with the
Hooley Family and it was
wonderful!

I am ready to just be 'still'
for a bit - I have had a very
busy last few months.
Nothing planned until MUN
Dublin for Zaven in March
and Germany in April for
me..but I know how that
goes :)

So happy that Av was with
us for this fun adventure,
he will be here until next
weekend and then head
back for his final semester
of college - yay!

22-23 February 2013
The bus ride from
Interlaken to Beatenberg
station was weird because
the driver had to chain up
due to so much crazy
snow  - so we were a bit
delayed. Then the gondola
doors wouldn't open to let
people off so we couldn't
get on...ie we were delayed
getting up there and our
sledding window got
smaller.
The sledding lasted over 30
minutes - it was snowy and
dark and we didn't know what
the hell we were doing. (Next
year we will be pros) It was
still fun even though I was
thinking, 'You could easily
die, crashing, going off piste,
colliding....' It was dangerous
and out of control - we did
crash, but I loved it and can't
wait to do it again!
Right: Post sledding - no
pictures during sledding  
because it was dark and
crazy.
Below: Swiss Fondue - YUM +
crisp white Swiss wine =
perfect post sledding meal
After the sledding, fondue
and before the last
gondola down the
mountain - we went to
another hut - mid gondola
ride - for gluhwine in a cow
stall - a great end to a
totally memorable evening!

PS riding in gondola's in
the dark is FREAKY but
very exciting.