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On Tuesday morning 28th we very slowly got up of our beds. Our whole bodies had remembered all that sporting time spent the previous day. But ... nothing can be done, our ski passes were bought and mainly ... we were there for it ! For down-hill skiing !
Me and Jirka got rid of that morning tightness with walking for baguettes to a small bakery that was situated nearby "our" house. And when we were back, hot
tea, coffee and substantial breakfast of some cheese and ham prepared by Hana and Jitka were waiting for us. Yes, it was something what we needed ... We all would be prepared for other strenuous day.
And then again "Let's go !" we headed for Le Houches. Everything went off as on Monday. Parking, the short queue, the ride up by the cableway to the Prarion area, fixing our skis and :"Go down !" we started our other winter exercise. And as yesterday ... down, up ... down, up ... down, up ... we enjoy our holiday time of down-hill skiing in the middle of beautiful sceneries. What a pity the weather was a bit worse than on last day. It was cloudy and occasionally it was snowing.  However no problem. We enjoyed those excellent ski terrains and did our best to use up our time over there. At about noon we again had a rest and light lunch at the "Le Prarion" hotel. It's true, we were tired enough, so we finished our afternoon skiing at about 2:15 p.m. and at 2:30 p.m. we were already going down by the cableway cabins to Le Houches. Jirka went for car, we loaded our stuff and returned to Chamonix. Ah, what relief it was to be back "home"  in the chairs with coffee and our preferred cans. Yes, of course we love sports, we love skiing but the similar way we love the rest after it ...
Of course we weren't lazy people for long time. At 5:15 p.m. we went out to do sightseeing and to try to send some emails of my PDA for our friends. The "wifi" point was situated in the information center. But there was some problem with my connection so I gave it up after about half an hour. Maybe next. And we headed for something to eat. There was a time for dinner. We walked through the historical part of the town and found a good looking small restaurant. It was very nice inside also, so we decided to stay there and to try something special. Unfortunately we made mistake, misunderstood French names of meals very well so we didn't enjoy our dinners as we expected.  However wine was delicious and it saved the day.
Well. Dinner was forgotten. All is well that ends well ... Sipping wine we scheduled our Wednesday program. We arranged to have a rest without skiing next day and we decided to make a trip by a cog railway "Tramway du Mont Blanc" from the lower station in "Le Fayet" to the upper station "Bellevue". The brochures said there is wonderful view to the Mont Blanc. Our decision was also influenced by weather forecast for Wednesday that said about snow and awful clouds. We would see ...  
At about 9 p.m. we came back and before long we were all asleep ...