Colorado Trip Part II

We got up to Breckenridge on Monday. We decided to go skiing on Tuesday. We sent Bode to ski school (more on that later). Here's a picture of Ashley going up the lift. It was a beautiful day, but there was a slight wind. Nothing terrible near the base of the mountain, but at the peaks, it was rather biting.

We skied for a little more than an hour. Our Ohio conditioning didn't prove to be up for the altitude challenge, as we both suffered a bit of jellyness in our legs, not to mention I felt a bit winded just moving (and downhill at that!). We took a cocoa/tea break. Here are a couple pictures of the two of us.

Following our break, we headed back out. A passerby was kind enough to snap a picture of us at the top of Peak 9. As always, I love the views in the mountains, and the longer I'm away, the more I miss them. The most obvious question from this picture is, "Should a 40-year old really be wearing those pants?" :-)

I then decided to take some action photos of Ashley. Her break-neck speed doesn't translate into a still photo.

We skied until 12:30 or so, which was longer than we expected. We were wiped out that evening because as we were watching TV, I was sure the time was around 9:45 or so. In reality, it was 7:30. Getting old...

Ok, back to the Bode-man. We dropped him off at ski-school at 8 am. He was very excited about ski-school. But I think Bode envisioned all of us attending ski school because he had a bit of a melt-down when we left--screams of Mommy! Mommy! could be heard throughout the Arapahoe Basin. We didn't get a call, so most likely, he settled down shortly after we left. The teachers are great, and we imagine they've dealt with this before. Ski-school discourages parents from watching--evidently as soon as the youngsters seem Mom and Dad, they want to leave. We picked him up at 3:30, so it was sort of like an all-day baby sitter (but much more expensive). I didn't get any action photos of Bode, because they were done skiing when we got there. But here are some shots of him geared up. In the first one, Bode is the one in the middle in the light blue jacket sitting down.

His teachers said Bode was great, but he was a bit scared to let go of their hands when he tried to go down the mountain. This didn't surprise us, as he's not the most fearless child. But we think he enjoyed himself, although he did say, "Ski school is bad." We might have to rethink our future home of record :-) One more Colorado post to come...