Every Vacation Has One...

A day of miscues and wasted time; not every day on vacation can be perfect.

The good things:

• A blissful lie-in after our exertions on Mont Blanc
• A beautiful drive through the Col de Joux Plane, the pass up the mountain from our little hamlet
• The discovery of an overlook on the mountain above our house with picnic tables and a view of Mont Blanc
• Poking around through Morzine, a cute little ski town

The miscues:

• The only laundry of any sort in Samoëns was closed for the off-season (the rental house has no washer or dryer)
• The restaurant we picked out for lunch was closed for vacation (the nerve!)
• A so-so lunch of salad and pizza at a restaurant run by Brits
• No laundry soap, and the only market open in town was closed for lunch
• Killing time waiting for the market to open
• Guess what?  The laundry had washers with soap dispensers built in so…
• We didn’t actually need to buy soap
• OR wait for the market to open to buy it
• We could’ve been done and home at least two hours earlier!
• Grrrr.

We finally got home, clean laundry in hand, and decided to take a bottle of wine up to the overlook and finally do what we wanted – nothing!

At the overlook, waiting for sunset

Samoens in the valley as the day fades

Mont Blanc massif from our overlook