Well a lot can go wrong. My sister lost her front tooth by a middle aged incompetent man.
She would still say it’s the best holidays she ever had and continues to go skiing to this day.
I was talking to my mum about it at Christmas and she was saying as two girls it was a fantastic opportunity to spend time with my autistic awkward dad who is brilliant but needs to be doing something or gets jittery. He wasn’t one for sitting.
It’s also great for sibling relationships. We had far less arguments skiing than on normal holidays where would be bicker.
It’s also just gorgeous scenery. There is nothing like standing on top of a mountain covered in snow with super fresh air to breathe and beaming sunshine.
The food always tastes incredible too. I’m not sure if that’s down to the excercise. To ski into a restaurant completely isolated next to frozen waterfalls and have someone throwing slabs of meat on a giant wood fired hot plate is quite something.
Or even just getting a Ritter bar and an orangina and sticking the orangina in a snow mound at bottom of mountain so when you get down again it pops and steams the fizziness of ice cold delight. These are my top childhood small moments of joy.
Plus you get spa and swim usually which is also incredible for wellbeing (hot/ cold therapy). You feel fantastic. It helps sleep and as someone who hated early mornings I would always be raring to go.
It is magical as a young child at night with the lights, and also great for older teens when they don’t really want to family holiday as much. It really is something special imo.
It is non negotiable for DP to learn so we can enjoy this together as a family. Him not skiing is probably doubling the price for a number of years so it’s going to be tricky but I have said it’s a top priority once littlest is 3 or so.