Winter Park, Colorado

This was our second year traveling to Winter Park for a ski trip.  Just like last year, it was a blast!

The first day there it was super windy, which you can kind of tell in the top left picture.  The remaining days it was still cold and windier than last year, but not as bad as the first day.  We went with friends Ryan and Megan Grable, and their kids, Austin and Gracie.  The first day the kids were in ski school; the second day we skied with Megan and Austin, while Ryan and Gracie worked on her "moves."  The top left picture here is from the very top of the mountain--Austin made it up there on his second day of skiing!

  

Here are some photos of Winter Park.  The second night we were there we spent some time in the hot tub while getting snowed on, and woke up the next morning to several inches of snow! (Bottom left picture)

 

This picture is from the first day of skiing--I pretty much cried the whole way down this steep beauty.  You can see me, Jed, and Megan in the far back of the picture, waiting to jump off the edge!

 

 

Jed made a new friend on the trip....

 

Here are the four of us that made it to the top on the second day!  Notice how Megan and I are standing...it was steep up there and windy!

 This picture is from our ride down the top of the mountain--we just bailed off the edge and cut our own path through the heavy powder!  I love skiing in heavy powder--Jed not so much.  It is really hard to get up if you fall in heavy powder.  You can see Jed and Austin made it down...and fell down!  Megan and I also had our share of falls getting down from the top!

 

Here are a few more pictures from our run from the top of the mountain.  In the two pictures on the right if you can see the specks towards the top, that is Jed and Austin, making their way down!

Here are a few more skiing pictures....looks like this is Jed and Austin skiing down the mountain! 

And Jed at the top of the mountain...

 

 

Jed getting ready to head down the black diamond the "Drunken Frenchman".  That didn't turn out so well...with moguls as big as Jed, he bailed out through the trees to get onto a blue/black....but he'll try it again next year!

 

Taking time out for a lunch break...

 

The Grable family!  Gracie (first grade, age 6), Megan, Austin (3rd grade, age 9), and Ryan.

 

And a few last pictures of the Grable family...

 

The top pictures are of Ryan and Austin at the top of Mary Jane (left) and the top of the mountain (Right).  Bottom left is Gracie, just taking a rest!  And bottom right is Jed, Austin and Megan, getting ready for a big ski run!

Overall, had a blast.  Was it hard to leave the kiddos?  Oh yes.  We are really looking froward to the day when the kids are old enough to go on these fun trips, but until then, we know they are being spoiled very well taken care of back home.  But, someday we will be old and not agile, so at that point we will be traveling to beaches instead of mountains.  Until then...it's the mountains and adventures for us!  As one of my friends says, #helovesadventuresandilovehim.