Spring Break - Skiing!

For the end of spring break, we took a small ski vacation. I went up Thursday with the kids to Solvista, a small resort that caters to families with children (and is also much less expensive! than the big resorts). We ended up spending the whole day on the bunny slope, which costs only $10 per person. The kids gained a lot of experience skiing, as well as with riding the lift. Thursday was a sunny, warm, beautiful day (I got sunburned ;-p).

We spent the night at a condo in Winter Park. The patio of our condo had the biggest icicle ever, and Owen had to pull it down and play with it.

John joined us after getting delayed for about 3 hours on I-70 due to an accident.


Here we are having a lovely french toast breakfast at our condo.

Next day we went skiing at Winter Park - not a cheap proposal. But the kids felt they were ready to go up a big mountain, and Winter Park has a lot of variety in the green slopes (less so at Solvista).

We got a fun gift for Christmas this year - Video sunglasses. So, John wore them while skiing this time.
Here we are on the lift:

They aren't exactly the smoothest video camera ever, and John never seems to look directly at someone with them. But they're fun!

Next comes a pieced-together video of the end of our ride up on the lift and then down the mountain. Unfortunately, one whole fun section in the middle would not save in to the format I need to upload here. It involved a massive yard sale with John and Elise ....

I also see that I got one section in here twice. Ah well, I spent too much time editing this video t oupload here, and I am NOT going back to fix it.

Not much video of Owen skiing, as after Elise and John wiped out, Owen got way ahead of us - he thought he was behind - and we didn't catch him til nearly the end.

And, at what seems to be the top of the world.
Actually, it was only halfway up the first mountain at Winter Park.