SANSICARIO 1999

Track: "Stayin' Alive" - Bee Gees

 
Nick, doing the blag with the football machine at Reading Services on the M4 Gratuitous 'View from the Room' shot #1
Gratuitous 'View from the Room' shot #2 Ali, apprehensively getting ready to go skiing for the very first time
Oh Cecilia..... I'm down on my knees, I'm begging you please....!!. Snowboarders are PISTE-BASHERS.... OKAY ??!!!
Andy 'Gold Award' (Call me 'Scummer') Andy, celebrating his 32nd by trying to ... (What was I doing ??)
Cindy practices her response for when Scummer eventually buys the beers ! The 'Pal Punk Rockers, Snoboard Riders, Alcoholic, Silly Hat-wearing Scummers' quiz team
Mike misses his nose ! Cecilia and <insert name here> admire the Anno Connollio plant
Mike recoils from the left-jab that Cindy has just dealt him Cecilia - Miming the Gino-Ginelli advert (I was going to put something ruder....but...hey!!... this a 'PG' cert. site !!)
"Who??... Me??", asks Lynn after being woken up to be told that it's her round. 'We're extremely pi**e* so 'Who Cares' ???
Babs - in desperation - bets her lift-pass at poker !...... ... as if Leanne and Jeff could care.... They all gave up playing 2 Hours ago !!
It must have been a good birthday... because I thought I was drinking beer !!! "Do you want to see what I've got in here?", smirks Lynn

Graham and Cecilia start off the bottle-game !.....

 ....and proceed to win it with an unbeaten length !!
...but people keep trying (And I keep kicking the bottle over!) Babs grabs Graham .....
Wahaaayyyy..... how did this one get through the censor??? Prize for the best suggestion as to what Ben is gesticulating about here..... answers on a postbox !
The nursery slope ....and again !
Nigel C
The 'other (DETERMINED to crack this skiing lark) Nigel'
Jeff at the top of the drag The 'Mandy Lovell' pose before they all rushed off while I was still trying to put the camera away !
"Tata" - a.k.a. "The Undertaker" - gets off the main chairlift As far to the top as we could get... the view from the top of the second chairlift !
The group (minus me (taking photo), Lynn (injured) and Mandy (trying to pick herself up out of the snow behind me !!! <g>) So... who was this, trying to pick themselves up out of deep snow ?? .... okay Tess, take a bow !
The 'Mandy Lovell practiced pose' at 2200m This was the best piste that we had been on as a group - and there was no-one else around !!!
We just kept having to stop on this run as the scenery was awesome....so here is Dave with some scenery !! One of the stranger things was that every bar or coffee shop that we stopped at contained either Jeff, Nigel C or Babs..... still, this place served a nice Gluhwein !
View shot #1 Hi Tess !
View Shot #2 View Shot #3
Hi Jeff !! View Shot #4
View Shot #5 Gravity's a bummer eh ???
The photo doesn't do the angle of this slope justice but it was fun skiing over grass and rocks ! <g>
We survived !!!
Ben tries to balance coins on the side of a semi-submerged lemon. (If you think we are crazy ....try it !!) Nick and Andy
Yet another photo of Andy with a pint glass in his hand....Nah...surely not !!! Tessa
Snowboard Boys - Make more noise !
Leanne
"Il tutti bastardi" was one phrase that Robbie taught us !! "I wish he'd put that damn camera away!" is the thought that is crossing everyone's mind here...... apart from Nigel's who looks like he's about to sock me one !!!!
Cindy and Mike Name to follow once Nick W tells me
The 'organisers' table The noisy table in the corner
Anna and Nick ...then suddenly, it became fasionable to have one's photo taken with Nick
...okay...if you'd like a photo of you with Nick Winn, please Email the site ! Tata - the Undertaker..... at the 'Awards Ceremony'
"When the lady goes to town...she goes......." Jeff recites to Tessa A damn good instructor..... a bit like being back at school !!
Instructor photoshoot #1 Instructor photoshoot #2
The mandatory 'Must finish the film' shot !! (Sorry....lying...this is a digicam, but it was revenge for what was said to me ! <g>) Sansicario, Italy 31.Jan.99 - 07.Feb.99

Thanks to Babs, Jeff and Nigel for the organisation and to everyone who took part for making it a great laugh and adventure !!!

 

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