Ahh...skiing. How I have missed skiing! Last week, we took a mini vacation to Colorado with our friends Kelley and Carl...and what a fun time we had. I am not that great of skier, so of course I had my fair share of wipeouts, but it was a great trip nonetheless. Ben, Kelley, and Carl were very patient instructors and helped me each day and on every trail. They were awesome...thanks, guys. :) Lainey and Walker stayed home with Bud and Yiyia. Before we left, Lainey told me that she was excited that Yiyia was going to wear "her jammies" and that Bud was going to wear his "blue jammies" when they stayed at her house. Sweet girl. She and Walker had a great time with their grandparents; I can thank Mary and Allyn for giving Lainey (and Reagan) lots of playtime and attention and for sleep-training Walker. (YAY! But more on that at another time.) While I was a bit sad about leaving peaceful Colorado, I was eager to get home and see my two little friends. I was so happy to hear their sweet voices and see their cute faces!
Day One
High: 18 degrees with strong winds and falling snow.
TONS of snow. TONS of fresh powder. A bit challenging for us non-locals!
ready to go :)
mid-morning break
(Notice the potted plant in the background, just above Carl's head. Somehow Carl and I managed to dump most of that plant's soil onto a family's table and into the hood of another guy's white coat. We never saw the family again (they probably ran the other way if they saw us coming) but we DID see that guy in the white coat TWO more times! On our final day of skiing, we saw him in the parking lot of the ski-rental shop and then again at a restaurant/bar that evening!)
Day Two
High: 18 degrees. Still snowing!
Kelley, Carl, and Ben are discussing the probability of the pass being closed (the pass is the road back to town...our way home). It never closed, but we headed home early anyway...I was a tad worried about getting stuck on the mountain! I know, I am a square.
zero visibility
I still can't believe we were skiing in this craziness!
heading home...
And...Day Three.
High: Not sure, but still cold. Deep powder. Not all the slopes had been groomed. Snowed in the morning, but finally, around lunchtime, the skies started to clear and we saw the stunning views that the mountains provided. Our last afternoon on the slopes was a good one!
Ben and his skis, buried in snow
me and my skis, struggling to get out of the snow
and get moving again
(This was a very common occurrence for me.)
Ben and me
Kelley and me
Where are my skis? Oh yes, that's right. Buried in the snow!
Kelley took this picture of me with her phone. I think I had given up on trying to ski down the mountain at this point; I just carried my skis and poles and marched the short distance down to the lift!
starting to clear...
I spy a mountain! (First time in two and a half days!)
a view from the lodge
Ben, Kelley, Carl
Hooray for beautiful, clear skies!
Carl, making his way through the snow after taking a cut-through from one trail to the next
beautiful
This is another picture from Kelley. I'm the one on the ground with my poles up in the air! I was pretty tired at this point!! Over the three days, I must have fallen and/or gotten stuck in the snow about a billion times.
And we're out!
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