We did it! After planning for 7-8 months we are now snoozing in a car park in Morzine. Everything has gone surprisingly smooth traveling today. Even getting up at 3:20am with less than 3 hours sleep. 

We filled up my mum's Honda Jazz with all our belongings. That little thing is a regular Tardis. We had 4 bags, 2 snowboard-bags, and 1 bike inside it. Cruised to the airport in record time, not much traffic at 4am, and left the car at dad’s specified parking where they will pick up the car when they return from their holiday in 2 days. The airport was way to busy for a sunday morning, yet we somehow eased our way through that as well, special luggage and all. The only downside was that I messed up my lower back with all the lifting, so Shannon had to take over a lot of that. Once on the airplane we fell asleep pretty damn quickly.    

At the Geneva airport there's a Swiss section and a French section. We found our car rental on the second attempt. After the usual “this isn't what the price was when we booked” we had our car. Our upgrade car even, because we booked with a ski rack, which apparently is impossible to get in summer. So upgrade ahoy, our Citroen Berlingo became a brand new VW Touran. It fits all our stuff, and is nice to drive.

Speaking of driving, I remember leaving the airport and simply jumping on the freeway and being on my way to the mountains. Not so much from the French side. We got a 1 hour drive through the city of Geneva amd cross the border twice before we got to hit the freeway.

Seeing the mountains it finally dawned on me. I'm not on holiday. This is my new home! 

We drove through a dozen picturesque French mountain villages, got lost in one of them, got directions and bought some great bake goods from the local boulangerie, squeezed the car up tiny winding roads past a classic car event in one village, a 4x4 event in another, trying not to hit any of the road bikers, before reaching Morzine. 

Morzine is bigger and more busy than I anticipated, but I believe it’s the summer high season at the moment. Funnily enough it started raining at the exact moment we arrived, but it wasn't to last.