the night. It was during the night that I woke up
to find my left knee really stiff. I feared the worst. By morning it was
still stiff although I could bend and twist OK. I decided not to ski on
Friday. Richard saw his chance for victory and looked pretty
determined. Oh well there’s always next year Richard
Friday afternoon and we had the ski school
presentations. As usual we were well represented in the medal tables. Well
done to Laura Wildash, Paul Brimelow in particular. . Just time for me to
work on Gottfried to try and get him to join us at the Steak House. I got the
impression he wouldn’t be there.
Around 5:30 we were ready to get back to the
village.
Now the mad dash to get hired equipment back and
to persuade people to pack at least a little bit, before we went to the
steak house, as we had a very early start in the morning. Somehow we got
everyone sorted and by 8pm we all met at the restaurant where we eat all
week., the Laterndlwirt. It gave us a chance to say goodbye to our friend
there and the other people we had met that week whilst we waited for the
taxis to take us down. In we walk to find Gottfried smiling and waiting for
us. Everyone was pleased as many had asked him to join us.
He was very anxious to say how much he had
enjoyed the week with us and he hoped to see us all back there again. So we
started the usual evening of fun with Helmut serving up his delicious
combination of good food, good beer and some very, very old music. As ever
the meal was superb and everyone enjoyed it. Quite how many schnapps Helmut
plied us with I can’t remember but the week had taken it’s toll physically,
on us and the taxis were summoned to get us back to St Veit.
Well we should have gone to bed as we needed to
be up at 6:00 in the morning and away by 7:30, but oh dear the disco and
Michael and Kirsten called. Besides Richard and I had to make it past
midnight to maintain our record of going to bed the day after we got up!! Not
a lot later than midnight we just had to give in and get to bed.
In the morning everyone was ready and we were
away on our journey to Munich.
Another superb week in St Veit, where once
again the snow conditions had been great we had acquitted ourselves well
against the Americans and we were all in one piece. Oh dear for 3 of us it is
all of a week until we are off to USA with the next club trip!!
