Ski Weekend

This past weekend was a three-day weekend for Bode and me (MLK holiday).  We convinced Ashley to take today off and headed up to Breckenridge for some ski-fun.  We headed up Friday night after work.  We packed a pizza and snacks, so we could check in, get to our place, and then relax as a family, not to mention rest up for some skiing.  Saturday, we woke up and took Bode to ski-school.  He really seems to like it; I'd like never having to wait in line at the lifts too, one of the perks of ski school.   Bode got a pretty crazy helmet hat for Christmas; he looks way cool.

After dropping Bode off, Ashley and I broke the ski-school rules and went to Arapahoe Basin.  I think you're supposed to stay in Breckenridge, but it's not like we went to Vail or anything crazy.  We kept a close watch on our phone just in case there was an emergency call.  Fortunately there wasn't one...and even if there had been one, we could easily claim not to have heard the phone, poor reception, etc. :-)  But back to the mountain.  A-basin had received three or four inches of snow the night before, so we had a great time.  Here's a shot of one of the runs where you can still see the powder.

Here are a couple random shots of Ashley.

We skied until just after noon.  We then headed back to Breck, had some lunch, and toured around Blue River looking at different houses.  We picked Bode up at 3:30.  Ashley got this picture of him at the end of the day.

He's real easy to pick out in that hat.  Thanks to the RF-ID tag on Bode's pass, we are able to track his movements.  He skied 8,216 vertical feet on Saturday, which is pretty impressive (stats unavailable for Ashley and me; evidently A-basin is still in the 20th century).

Because we had such a good time on Saturday, we got up and did it all over again on Sunday.  At first, we were worried, because it was extremely windy in the morning.  Fortunately, the temperature was 30 or so; had it been in the teens, it would have been one short ski-day.  We skied for two hours, and then we stopped for some tea.  We were thinking of packing it in--a little crowded for our tastes.  We went outside and grabbed a photographer for our obligatory Epic picture.

We then decided to try a different part of the mountain, which was a good idea.  We skied for another couple hours, and had some great runs.  We did 11,353 vertical feet and enjoyed every foot of it.  Funny that Ashley's pass only recorded 4,000 or so feet even though we skied together all day.  The highlight had to be the end of the day when we went to get Bode.  He did another 7,572 vertical feet, bringing his season total to 29, 692 feet, higher than Mount Everest.  We got this video on his final run--he's even using polls now!  Sorry about the audio (damn that wind).

Sunday night was relaxing--just the three of us watching TV.

We came home today and did chores.  Joey and Harley were thrilled when we got home, but Joey had a little melt down while we were away, destroying his pillow and two other pillows.  We need a Joey cam--maybe fit a camera on Harley so we could see what Joey's up to.  Oh well, other than that, it was a fantastic weekend, and we can't wait for the next ski trip.  Pleasant week to all.