I woke up really early and needed to visit the sanitary block; on my way back I grabbed my phone as the early morning sun hitting the snow-covered mountains was so spectacular!
We didn't actually leave the motor home in the morning, as we were watching the livestream from the competition, and then our church service (quality not at all bad), and then we had lunchI, During the early part of the morning, the Swan Whisperer changed our sheets and towels, as we are half-way through the holiday. After lunch he went for a walk which he later described as "Very long, very strenuous, very enjoyable!"
I, meanwhile, went up to the rink and sat with some friends to watch other friends skate. When there was a gap in my interest, I decided to go for a walk in the village. Either I have done too much over the past ten days or I'm not quite as adjusted to the altitude as I thought I was, but I found it rather hard going towards the end, and had to force myself nnot to take the bus back fr just one stop! Eventually I did >10.5k steps over the course of the day.
When the SW got back from his walk, we had a cup of tea, and he went up to the rink as he couldn't make the livestream work - I think it did go down for a while there - but I decided to stay put and read. I'm reading Julia Boyd's "A Village under the Nazis", which is about Oberstdorf, and is very interesting.
We had arranged to join some other ice dancers (after all, that is what we were) for a meal at Zum Wilde Männle, in town, which was most enjoyable, both the company and the food! I had the trout with asparagus and new potatoes, which was lovely, although I couldn't eat the potatoes and the SW had to help me with the trout! He had roast pork, which looked very good. I had yet another Hugo (I gather that traditionally it is not made with gin, just elderflower, mint and prosecco; the gin is a modern addition).
When we had finished eating, we went back to the rink where we had hoped to watch the rest of the day's competitions, Unfortunately, they were running rather late, and I started flaking out, so we came back to the WoMo and I went to bed and watched the remaining skaters on the livestream! Didn't have the mental energy to blog, though.
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