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We had some new recruits to the Ernst and Young ski team today.  Ross and I were joined by housemates Sam, Parin and Pete, along with Sophie and Simon who heard about our radical freestyle skiing and wanted in.  More people brings more advanced skiing tricks – the obvious being the Nutmeg Tunnel™, and we also introduced formation skiing.  It’s in its early days, but there’s definitely potential.

Warning: if you are our parents or girlfriends, you may wish to stop reading here.

Ross and I had pretty much remembered how to ski forward yesterday, so it was time to try something new: backward skiing… why, you ask?  Well, to land a 180, you have to be able to ski backward, and after a couple of 150s, we managed to complete 180 degrees.  No joke.

Skis? Check.

Boots? Check.

Gloves? Hat? Kickass sunglasses? Check.

 

Snow?… ah.

 

Looking out of our apartment window here in Val Thorens, I couldn’t help but wonder why everything looked so green. A record low level of snowfall this year has left the slopes pretty bare, and the resort is therefore teaming with lots of worried skiers.

 

With a quick look at the pile of jellybeans Ernst & Young sent us, we knew what we had to do. We filled a bag, got on a chairlift, and went looking for those brave souls who said ‘no!’ to Mother Nature.

 

While bringing sweetness back to the mountains and generally being complete and utter heroes, we found time to develop a daring new trick…

 

Ed: Ross, Ross, the Ernst & Young merchandise is here!

Ross: Sweet – what have they sent?

Ed: Jellybeans.  A lot of jellybeans!

 

As we piled up the 85 packets of jellybeans, 2 hoodies, and 25 chocolate bars, it was apparent that a tactical re-packing was necessary to stay within our 20kg luggage allowance.  The pants were first to go, followed by a few t-shirts.  The lava lamp was more of an issue:

 

Ross: Ed, we need this lava lamp

Ed: Well you are very persuasive, but we’ve just got rid of half our underwear – I’m afraid we’ll have to ditch the lava lamp.

Ross: *single tear rolls down cheek, slightly blurring the Ernst & Young logo*… ok…

 

We managed to check our bags in ok in the end – mine weighing in at 20.0kg, and Ross’ was 16.9kg – tragically just enough spare capacity for a lava lamp, but it was too late.  We’re now in Val Thorens where the snow is somewhat lacking, but fortunately there are snow cannons to top-up the pistes, and yes, the slalom will be going ahead, and yes, Ross and I will be entering it.

We’re going skiing tomorrow, so Ed and I thought we’d get our affairs in order.  Dishes were thrown and insults were hurled, but after explaining to our girlfriends exactly why we’d been late home from work these last few weeks, we managed to find time to pack for our holiday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yep, we spent the whole day looking for socks, passports, and health insurance. Not a big day for us really, but it was a massive day for my cat:

 

 

It was our first advertiser from the USA – big up !  They were full of ideas to boldly venture where no face ad had ever been before… somewhere pretty swanky!  The plan was to polish our shoes, dust down the top-hats, put on our monocles, and remove our rosewood canes from their humidity controlled cabinets – we were off to see a ballet at the Royal Opera House.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revolver Studios had kindly reserved us the finest tickets available, which included dinner in the Amphitheatre Restaurant beforehand, and champagne in the interlude.  Our painted faces went down a treat with our fellow ballet-goers, and the ladies were all over us!  After leaving our numbers on some embroidered handkerchiefs, we headed back home feeling pretty chuffed.  Not only are we still a hit with the babes, but we also had some great photos for a USA press release that may come out soon with Revolver Studios.