Sliding down the hill on a tray marked “Joy’s Cafe” was the highlight of Puig’s holiday.

Both of them had become firm friends while the visit to appropriately named Snoslyde described as the “Ski Area of the south” continued into spring.

Puig and Dewley had never met before this longest-ever holiday, even though it turned out they came from the same town.

Their parents had sent each of them with their appropriate grandparents, the “oldest skiers on the hill“, for this epoch-making trip to allow their own travels to progress as both sets of parents were astronauts away on even longer flights of fancy.