Meribel Alpina Appreciation Day is Born!

My suggestion was to take those leftover mince pies and go and show love to the lifties and peace to the pisties. Unfortunately, when it came down to it, I was weak. I went into the kitchen, I looked at those mince pies and like a man possessed I was reaching for the brandy butter before I even knew what was happening. Crumbs.

I was instantly overcome with a feeling of shame that I had not experienced since the last time I woke up after a night out drinking and rolled over only to realise I was sharing the bed with a greasy cardboard box and a pile of salty chicken bones. Only this time I had the added guilt of not sticking to my word. There were victims. Blissfully ignorant victims…but victims nonetheless.

Unable to live with myself, I roped in a couple of friends and hit the kitchen. Three hours later, five cakes were made (lemon, chocolate, marble, banana and apricot white chocolate if you were wondering) and cut into 60 individual pieces. Each piece was wrapped up and “Meribel Alpina Appreciation Day” was born.

On the morning of Wednesday 7th January 2015, 7 seasonaires and one token punter set out on a mission of goodwill and it was largely a success.

One of us got a kiss from a lift operator. One member of piste patrol loved his cake so much that he strategically went to our next cake drop location so he could blag himself a second piece (fair play). About 15 members of mountain staff posed for selfies. Three lift workers misunderstood what was going on and tried to take the entire box of cake from us. One piece of cake got skied over and one lift operator told us that he was a cowboy and his horse was tied up behind his hut.

It was a beautiful day that ended with a warm fuzzy feeling inside and I’d like to turn it into an annual tradition. This time next year, get those aprons on and get ready for the second annual Meribel Alpina Appreciation Day.

Video to follow!