Saturday July 20th =rest day!

July 20st - Today is Saturday and it is a rest day for us!  It sure will feel good to not have to put our boots for a day!  We got up this morning, Rémi and I and went for a short run. We did 5 km up in the mountains. John had suggested what was supposedly an easy 5K run. We ended up going up a mountain for 327 m and then back down. In the middle of the trail I thought for sure John was trying to kill me as this definitely was not an easy course. Still was a fabulous run! It felt great to move in a different way  then when we are hiking.

Our campsite has a fabulous children's playground.  We had fun trying out the structures and the exercise machines!


After our run, we did some laundry in the sink.  Time for some clean underwear!  Hung it to dry and off we went to town (Courmayeur). A short 15 minute bus ride in switchbacks, over bridges, not knowing if the road was wide enough for the bus and cars, we arrived alive and well!  We walked around, had lunch, took the bus and came back to the campsite. That pretty much sums up our rest day. Tomorrow we start hiking again for three days. Three days of hiking for one day of rest. Sunday will be a moderate day the rest of the days will be difficult days. Let’s see what that will be like. There’s also a heat wave coming that will not be fun.  The heat adds a whole other lever of difficulty!