Winter Vacation: Part IV

While in Breckenridge, we stayed in a great condo about 100 yards from the gondola. The gondola will take anyone to the base of peak 7 or peak 8. After we skied on Wednesday, we took the Little Dude up the gondola. He loved the ride (thank heavens Jaws didn't attack us--reference the movie Moonraker if you don't get the joke). Here's a picture of Mommy and Bode.

Bode really enjoyed it when we crossed over the gears and the car bumped up and down. Here's a video.

While on this trip, Bode learned how to use our digital camera. For a long time, he has enjoyed holding the camera and looking at the stored pictures. He has now figured out how to switch the camera mode from 'view pictures' to 'take pictures,' and he has also figured out how to actually take a photograph. I realized Bode had a new skill set when I was scrolling through the store images and there were 100 pictures of random things (yes, one hundred). Here are some of Bode's best shots--we have a budding Ansel Adams on our hands. First a blurry shot of Mommy.Next, a self-portrait.My favorite that Bode took is the following. It's a shot of the three of us watching the Olympics. That's his little foot in the middle, my bare feet are on the right, and Ashley's socked feet are on the left. We spent our final night in Colorado in Denver at Kathy and Dave's place. Bode was able to spend some more quality time with his two Rankin cousins, Teddy and Charlie.

That about does it for our winter holiday. We both go back to work tomorrow. The weather is a bit warmer today (in the low 30's), so spring is near. Pleasant week to all.