June 23, 2018
After our slightly taxing day yesterday, we decided to sleep
in and just get moving whenever we all woke up.
So we cleaned out the apartment, re-packed the car and said au revoir to Chamonix. We drove back to the Vigliottis through Martigny, Switzerland (the other way around Lac Leman – or Lake
Geneva). It was a beautiful drive, and
we saw preparations for the Tour de
France that will be coming through that area next month – one of these was
a dinosaur wearing a yellow bike helmet. It was a little discouraging for me to see a
one-legged bicyclist going up a mountain that I know would give me a heart
attack within the first kilometer. Good
for him, though!
We made it back to the Vigliottis and had some time to just
rest up and relax for a while because Maria, Mimmo and Josh were all heading
out to a church activity. Fabio, Elodie
and their kids came over to swim for a little while so we had a chance to hang
out with them for a little while. Again,
their kids are ridiculously cute!
We thought that we were on our for dinner because Maria and
Mimmo were coming home a little late, but we thought wrong – Maria decided to
whip up some fondue for us after she got home.
This lady has endless amounts of energy. We also had a chance to see Ashley, the Vigliotti's granddaughter who I first met when she was an infant. We had seen her husband Jonathan a couple of times already, but as a doctor doing her residency, Ashley has a crazy schedule so this was the first time we were able to visit with her.
I almost forgot to mention – tonight was the night that we
were supposed to stay up late to watch Alex wrestle Olympic and World champion
Helen Maroulis in her Final X match to determine the US senior world team. It would have been streaming starting at
midnight in Switzerland. However, we got
a FaceTime call on Monday from Alex saying that their match had to be postponed
because Helen is not cleared yet from a concussion. I’m sorry for Helen, but it was also a little
sad for us too because we knew that Alex could have been on the trip with us a
little longer. She is joining us on
Monday the 25th, and we thought about trying to move it up once we
heard about Helen, but by that point, all the tickets had been purchased, and
Alex couldn't have gotten here much earlier than we had planned.
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