Nightfall came quickly on that December eve and Danni and her cousins retreated for the night. Never would she have thought that three of them would have fit on a full sized bed, but there they were, snuggled close together. The only three female cousins of the family lay on the bed while the male cousins spread across the floor. It was gallant of them to offer up the bed, she thought; though that meant that any late night passages to the bathroom would be rather difficult to traverse. This was compounded by the fact that one of their cousins invited his friend, Jon.
Being raised with older ideologies meant that the girls were rather shy around him. So they quickly changed and all cuddled under the warm blanket and tried to sleep. After about an hour, Danni lie on the bed, still awake, anxious for tomorrow. This was her first time coming to the old family lodge and she had dreamt of skiing down the porcelain sheets of snow since she was small. What she hadn’t anticipated was the cold. The frigid air was relentless and the ice, unforgiving. She knew that she would have dress warm tomorrow.