Rifugio Duca D'Aosta was located right off the chairlift and had stellar
views I chose a local fair which actually tastes better than I looked
while the rest of the family played it safe
so we are here at one of the ski areas we just had lunch and we are getting
ready to head back out we're gonna try to get to the Cinque Torri so I
think we have to ski down this run and then catch a shuttle bus and then find
ourselves a lift to the top
this chairlift has a little plastic enclosure so we feel like little Guppies
after skiing all day it was wonderful to come back to Hotel Europa sit by the
crackling fire with a drink and relive the day's events with new friends from
around the globe
Chad ripped his rental pants so now we have a problem I wonder what that's going
to cost me una problema
I can't cook in this hotel we don't have a stove or an oven or anything so we are
just doing a light dinner some salami crackers cream cheese and some
veggies which is actually quite delicious today we have done the number 8 bus fix
which picks up right here in Cortina near our hotel and it took us right
over to here and we skied till fauna area here and then we wanted to after
lunch explore the Cinque Torri region so we found our way down here to
this bus the dolomiti ski bus which took us up here to Cinque Torri which was
our personal favorite it was more like skiing in Montana as snowy conditions
over here was my like East Coast ski and then
and just mountains all around it really in both places it was gorgeous and then
afterwards we skied down and took the dolomite ski bus back into town and
then tomorrow we are going to catch the number eight bus and go over here to
misurina and what is this one Faloria and check that section out the Cortina
ski pass is good for all of these areas
time to clean up from all those Italian strolls Fletcher hates baths but he
humors us
most people view church as a chore or obligation but we love our church and
we're so happy that we could snuggle up in bed after our ski day and listen to
the message given by our pastor in Montana technology is amazing good night
beautiful Cortina
We woke up this morning and got all of our gear on prepared to go skiing
and realized that Noel lost her coat somewhere yesterday, her jacket
fortunately we located it, it was left on the bus on the ski bus home
unfortunately, they cant get it back to us until tomorrow morning
and that had her two-day ski pass in it
so I would definitely recommend getting insurance especially if you do the snow service ski rental for the equipment
given our pants and our lost jackets first thing on our agenda was
filling our bellies Ella visito is located one Street over from corso
italia the main Walking Street in Cortina
the food was delicious and they brought us a free appetizer and chocolates they
know the way to a girl's heart next step we went on a church hunt it was a
beautiful day and there a surprising amount of beautiful churches in Cortina
all are free to enter so if you don't ski or if you lose your ski pass it's a
great way to spend an afternoon
the last night of our stay in Cortina Chad and I decided to get out for a
dessert date I had some sort of delicious molten chocolate cake in my
head and we stumbled upon choccolato rizzati
we hadn't planned on eating gelato but she called us in and was so
passionate and excited she said we had to try it and we were so glad we did she
served us up an amazing gelato sundae which I don't think lasted more than 10
seconds between the two of us
after dessert Chad wanted to pick up one more package
of prosciutto this little shop was closing up but the owner was incredibly
nice and let us come in anyway no we did not buy that giant bottle of wine but he
was pretty proud of it we stumbled upon the Piazza a Marconi market before
catching the bus to Venice Friday morning we wished we had more time to
peruse the goods here fruit flowers veggies snow gear hiking shoes
rotisserie chicken and more Noel and I each purchased a sweater for 10 euro a
bargain and souvenir favorite of ours