February 17, 2017 - Tanya's Winter Wonderland Tour - Day 12 - St. Mortiz, Switzerland - FIS Alpine World Ski Championships

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A Closer Look at FIS

Yay!! Weekend!! 
Well, I'm super stoked about this weekend since I've got a great weekend planned!

​My dear friend is coming into town tonight!
I'll be heading to the airport to collect her at around 3pm. We'll probably settle into a girls' weekend tonight.

Our plan is to head into the city for some fun over the next few days.

A Few Fun Facts About FIS Alpine Ski World Cup

The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup is the top international circuit of alpine skiing competitions, launched in 1966 by a group of ski racing friends and experts 

Competitors attempt to achieve the best time in four disciplines: slalom, giant slalom, super G, and downhill. The fifth event, the combined, employs the downhill and slalom. 

The World Cup is held annually, and is considered the premier competition for alpine ski racing after the quadrennial Winter Olympics.

Many consider the World Cup to be a more valuable title than the Olympics or the biennial World Championships, since it requires a competitor to ski at an extremely high level in several disciplines throughout the season, and not just in one race.

Races are hosted primarily at ski resorts in the Alps in Europe, with regular stops in Scandinavia, North America, and east Asia.

A few races have also been held in the
Southern Hemisphere.

World Cup competitions have been hosted in 25 different countries around the world: Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States.

World Cup races were previously hosted at ski resorts in Bosnia and Slovakia when those countries were still part of Yugoslavia and
Czechoslovakia respectively.

(credit: en.wiki.org)

Tanya's Winter Wonderland Trip all began with her prior visit to St. Moritz.

It inspired her to come back to see the FIS Alpine World Championships.

And that's exactly where she will be later today!!

Folks, I've got a crazy weekend so my blog posts will be relatively short.

I wish you the happiest of weekends!!

-E
xoxo

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​ST. MORITZ, SWITZERLAND

Off to St. Moritz

​Hello Hello and Happy Friday to you! 

I had to think about that (what day it is) and confirm - because we really have no clue what day it is over here. LOL       It's really kinda funny.

This is yet another GREETINGS FROM ZERMATT, SWITZERLAND.

But after this morning, we will be taking a bit of a road trip (5 hours) and heading to St. Moritz (also in Switzerland). 

The route we are taking will bring us through the very beautiful lakes region of Italy...
We toured and stayed in this region a few years ago, and I am looking quite forward to seeing it once again!

As you should probably already know that the FIS Alpine World Championships is currently happening in St. Moritz and was the original inspiration for this trip. 

Actually back in 2014 while vacationing in Vail, Colorado with the kids and Dave, I had noticed some very fun souvenirs that had to do with the 2015 FIS Alpine World Championships - but knew little about it aside from he fact that it was being held in Vail/Beaver Creek in 2015. 

Well I certainly wasn't buying any souvenirs before going to the event and if I wanted the souvenirs then I had to plan a trip to Vail in 2015 to go and see the FIS for myself! 

And so that is what I did...

Read about it here:  http://www.travelincousins.com/2015-fis-alpine-world-ski-championships-in-vailbeaver-creek.html

We had such a great time that I couldn't think of anything better than going to the event again and bringing the kiddos along. The next event being 2017 here in St. Moritz!

To think that the fact that I liked souvenirs back in 2014 actually led to us being here on this trip. Crazy where some of my inspiration comes from!

Anyhow, for now let me share with you the scoop about yesterday and skiing in the shadows of the grand Matterhorn -

Taking a funicular up to the pistes was the fastest and our chosen mode of transportation up out of the valley. 

​And to think that we almost didn't even make it out onto the slopes...

Cosette had woke up very very groggy and had complained throughout breakfast that she was too tired to go skiing. Of course I know her ways and how she is, but I also didn't want her to convince herself of perhaps getting into an accident (God Forbid). 

So I attempted to figure out an alternative plan - I even came up with the idea of us completely forfeiting (although this was not at all what I wanted to do).  

And letting Dave and Dominic go without us girls (but Dave did not want to go without me) and I certainly also didn't want to end up on the slopes with my daughter who definitely knows how to drive me crazy and then just have the tease of being on the slopes, but really not be able to do much.

In the end, even Cosette felt that the best plan was to keep the original one and go skiing!
 

​Up above us and sometimes bellow us in the skies we would catch glimpses of paragliders and their colorful aircraft.

​All in all we had a fabulous day, skied to the Italian border and got to see the many sides of the Matterhorn, including that from backside. LOL

(Insert pics of signs to Italy, and the rest with the Matterhorn behind us)

But come the end of the day Cosette was sure happy to finally be back in the room and relax for a bit (until dinner time - which was rather late).

By the end of the night both kids were wiped out and ready for some zzz's and all I had to do was rest my head on a pillow and I too zonked out.

Oki doki, time for me to say bye bye and for us to go enjoy what's left of our time here in Zermatt and then off to St. Moritz!

​Our return visit to the town that started it all!!

The FIS Alpine World Championships have our attention and we'll be there to watch it LIVE!
St. Moritz is the oldest winter resort in the world, it lies on the southern slopes of the Albula Alps below the Piz Nair 3,056 m (10,026 ft) overlooking the flat and wide glaciated valley of the Upper Engadine and eponymous lake: Lej da San Murezzan (Romansh for Lake of St. Moritz). 
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Ciao baby,
-T