Ovronnaz

This past Sunday the weather was a little.... meh. The clouds were low and they were dripping with water. The weather is usually pretty damn nice in our little part of Europe so we were trying to decide what to do on a dreary wet day. It was also Sunday as I said before which means that all of the shops were shut so we couldn't spend our rainy day walking around the shops and we weren't really feeling like spending the day with our butts glued to the couch. We piled ourselves into Mitch and Lu's little, red car and drove to a place called Ovronnaz which is nestled in the Alps above the Rhone river. The further up the mountain the temperature dropped rapidly (according to the dash thermometer) and the rain turned to snow. We all got pretty excited because we'd all forgotten what winter had looked like because the temperature lately has been ranging from 2 degrees to around 10 degrees. After winding and winding up through the vineyards we made it to the thermal baths of Ovronnaz. We slushed through the built up snow and mud in the car park and entered the door to the warm building housing the toasty baths. We purchased our 19 CHF tickets, smiled when the lady told us there was no time limit, went through the turn styles to the change rooms and donned our togs (swimmers).

The first bath/pool we hopped in was a little underwhelming because it was a little too cold for our liking. We noticed that there was another bath which unfortunately you have to hop out into the freezing cold air to get to. Mitch and Roy decided to check if it was warmer and Lu and I noticed that they had huge smiles on their faces which told us that it was. We ran through the chilly air and quickly hopped in and immediately felt warm... ahhhh, so nice! It was so relaxing and such a cool novelty being in a steamy pool while the snow fell on our heads.