We have had some pretty poor luck skiing at "big mountains" this year with bitter cold temperatures and nasty wind chills. It was going to be sunny on Noah's birthday this year and Gabe had the day off, so we decided to take the kids out of school and have a family day of skiing... hey, it's the middle of March, it can't be that cold...right?? The day before I checked the weather again... it was certainly still going to be sunny, but actual temperature was single digits with a windchill in the high teens below zero... what?!?!?!? To make a long story short, we had already paid for the childcare and couldn't change it, so we went anyway hoping the weather forecasters were wrong. Of course the top two chair lifts were closed because of a wind hold, but Gabe, Noah, James and I happily rode the t-bar as high as we could and enjoyed skiing with almost no one else on the mountain... it was mostly fun;) The good news is that James has gotten to be such a good skier, after his lessons at Titcomb, that we can bring him almost anywhere Noah and I can go.
After a morning of skiing (where the temperature didn't rise at all despite the sun) we picked up Ben and Audrey and warmed up in the lodge for lunch. After lunch we got Ben and Audrey outfitted and we all skied the bunny slopes for the rest of the afternoon where it was "warmer", but not really warm enough to be pleasant for the younger skiers. Noah loved Audrey's skis so much that he kept saying, "Aww, aren't these so cute! Let's just buy them for her, look how much she likes them! She looks so cute wearing them".... it will be interesting to see how that kind of attitude with play out with the rest of Audrey's "lifetime milestones". Ben is getting better and better, so by next year he should be able to ski on his own. Audrey really loved skiing with me (not so much with Gabe) and seemed to like going fast, especially after we got her some goggles and covered her face completely with her balaclava;) All in all we had a great day skiing and Audrey is excited to do it again!
After a morning of skiing (where the temperature didn't rise at all despite the sun) we picked up Ben and Audrey and warmed up in the lodge for lunch. After lunch we got Ben and Audrey outfitted and we all skied the bunny slopes for the rest of the afternoon where it was "warmer", but not really warm enough to be pleasant for the younger skiers. Noah loved Audrey's skis so much that he kept saying, "Aww, aren't these so cute! Let's just buy them for her, look how much she likes them! She looks so cute wearing them".... it will be interesting to see how that kind of attitude with play out with the rest of Audrey's "lifetime milestones". Ben is getting better and better, so by next year he should be able to ski on his own. Audrey really loved skiing with me (not so much with Gabe) and seemed to like going fast, especially after we got her some goggles and covered her face completely with her balaclava;) All in all we had a great day skiing and Audrey is excited to do it again!
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