Ski Day - Made in Spain

So today I went skiing with Angel, Evaristo and their girlfriends (although their girlfriends decided to stay in the cafeteria for reasons that will become apparent to the reader after the first two pictures).

We went to a ski resort named "La Covatilla" which is probably the smallest place I've been to in all my years of skiing. Small is not necessarily bad (;P). However, in this case it was not only small but also pretty warm, which means that instead of snowing it was raining for most of the day... Skiing while it's snowing is not too much fun but it is tolerable (particulary if you haven't skied in a long time and it's the first day of the season). However, skiing while raining is hell...

We got to the place early in the morning and this is what we found: rain! Here Angel is trying to convince me that a few drops of water are actually good for you (like Guinness)

Half way up the lift the drops of rain turned into snow (although the consistency was half water and half snow)

Evaristo and I half frozen on the ski lift... At this point I'm totally soaked... even my underwear is wet. The combination of rain at the bottom of the slopes and wet snow at the top is "typical Spanish"... that's probably why Spanish skiers are tougher than northern European... we are used to more extreme skiing conditions!

Lunchtime... I'm about to freeze... (we obviously didn't go back to the slopes after lunch)

So that was our ski day... ok, ok, I'll admit it: I wish there were real mountains in Spain with decent snow and not this watery crap...

There you go, I said it: I wish the Alps were in Spain... we may have to go over there and conquer them someday ;P

Tomorrow I'll be flying to Florida so I'm not sure whether I'll be able to post any updates...