Colorado Fun

We got to go to Colorado last week!  Finally, a fun outing!  Although I'm so sick of winter this year that a tropical outing would have been nice.  Anyway...  Our trip started off a bit rough.  Jake fell twice on the ice right before we left.  Flat on his back.  He was/is in so much pain.  Great way to start a ski trip.  So I drove most of the way there so he could writhe in pain in the passenger seat.  The roads were so bad that the normally 6 hour drive took 8 hours.  And it was white knuckle driving the whole way.  Colorado doesn't use salt on the roads because it's hard on the environment, plus a bunch of other reasons I'm sure.  Well, due to the lack of salt, the roads are pretty much snow packed if it snows at all.  Bless Utah for using salt is all I have to say.

We had great fun skiing, even with the back injury.  Jake wasn't his usual crazy self on skis, which meant I could kind of keep up.  The first day the snow was amazing but it was freezing.  For reals, freezing.  I think with wind chill it had to be like 10 below.  Even Zack, who is never cold, was almost in tears.  It was brutal.  So we didn't ski long.  But the skiing we did was awesome.  Second day we got some good skiing in, just got a late start due to being at the instacare.  And on Saturday Jake wanted to try a different resort, so we drove to Breckenridge.  Along with a million other people.  I've never skied anywhere what was so crowded.  Ever.  And we had no idea where we were, so Zack and Kate were lost from us for like an hour.  This did not make them happy.  And once we were all together we couldn't figure out where to ski, and everywhere we went there were tons of people.  So thanks, but next year we'll stay at the same resort.

Our evenings were spent in the hot tub, playing games in the lounge, and doing some major relaxation.  We participated in the night time glow worm down the hill again.  Fireworks at the end.  Super cool, except that a bunch of old ladies did it who couldn't ski so the worm got all split up and they were getting mad at everyone for passing them.  Lame old ladies (they were probably my age - le weep).

We made it home in one piece, driving on good roads, so that was a plus.  We had a great time.  Someday Jake might be able to move again.  Or maybe not...  Here are a million pictures.

Sage is such a trooper.  We take her on some pretty big hills

You cant tell, but this was like knee deep powder

Trying to thaw out on our first day

The candy cabin our kids love going to.  Can you tell how cold Zack was?  You pay by the pound.  It's super expensive and Zack always has to put candy back.

This picture makes me laugh.  This hill was really steep with big snow piles.  Sage was not happy.  She said she was going to die.  Or just live on the hill so she didn't have to go down.  Then Jake told her if she did 7 turns in a row he would give her a candy bar.  And boom, 7 turns in a row no problem.  Killing me.

Sage and Jake up at the top

Getting ready for the broken glow worm

Kate loves skiing, and did awesome this year

Sage was so excited to get her face painted

Playing games in the lobby.

The back of our car after driving through 6 hours of snow.  There was seriously like 6 inches of snow stuck to the back.  Our doors were almost frozen shut.  Bless the car for making it.