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Spring Break (Part 1: Perry's Swiss Adventure)

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2014 marks the first year that I have  ever  had a two-week long spring break. It's also the first spring break in 5 years that I haven't been traveling to a competitive event with my students. Mind you, I miss flags-in-a-barn alright, but this whole 14 days of complete and utter freedom thing is pretty sweet. To start, I enjoyed a few quiet days at home in Leysin before entertaining my first ever visitor from the US.  I was lucky that we had our last real dump of snow just as everyone else had left town. That means four early morning hours of fresh powder on the mountain with no one else around. It was my last day of real skiing for the season and definitely one of the most memorable. And now, it was time to have my first "you-have-to-cross-the-Atlantic-to-get-here" visitor! Perry, my old friend from Alabama, and I had spent months planning his visit to Switzerland. We sent countless emails back and forth and shared Google Docs in preparation for the big