Vacation - Days 5 & 6

So we woke up on Tuesday morning and decided to go skiing! We'd talked about it as a possibility earlier in the trip, but decided that yesterday was the day. So, we spent much of the morning gathering the necessary gear from Lee and Gene's houses. We had some lunch, then headed to Snow Valley for night skiing (which actually starts at 3pm). It was a very good time. Both of the kids did well, and were stretched out of their comfort zones. Timmy did the chair lift for the first time. The bunny hill was very long (as bunny hills go). Cyndie helped him a lot and he was very game. He petered out a lot faster than the rest of the crew, so after a bit he spent the rest of the time in the lodge with various adults from the group (Papa Lee, Uncle Gene, Cyndie) rotating through to provide oversight. We'd brought with his busy bag (thanks Auntie Karen!) and he was perfectly happy, what with that and a few video games and some ice cream. Emma was a bit unsure at first. She definitely wanted to do the bunny hill first. But after that, she settled in on chair 13 which was pretty similar to the runs she's used to back home. By the end of the night she was zooming right down the slope. Cyndie and I were able to take a couple of runs down from the top too, which was very nice. All in all, it was a very fun trip!

So today we're packing up Lee's house and all our junk from Christmas. We'll stay the night down in the Mobile home and leave early in the morning to go to Glamis for a couple of days of dune buggying and riding down near the border with Arizona and Mexico!