How I spent my Winter Vacation by Wendy S.

You may or may not have noticed that Ariel's blog was not updated last week. That's because I was on VACATION. Our family took a week long ski vacation to Steamboat Springs. All and all, I would say we had a pretty darn good time. Jeremy and I went to the slopes 4 days. He skied the mornings, and I snowboarded in the afternoons. When Jeremy was skiing, I usually went to the Safeway Starbucks that was in walking distance to our condo, and took the boys swimming. We also watched a lot of TV, mostly the olympics. Alex is quite taken by curling, and now knows quite a bit about the sport. He'd like to paint circles on our floor and try it at home.

Alex also went to ski school 2 afternoons. Here he is:



And here he is on the magic carpet bunny hill:



He was pretty tentative, but he had fun and wants to go again.

After ski school, he liked to ride the gondola up and down the mountain:


I had to buy a disposible camera to take to the mountain, as I am not safe enough to carry a real camera. So here's some more pictures of Steamboat:

Here's a goofy self portait of me on the chair lift in my androgynous snowboarding garb (I was called sir at least once by a lift operator):


On our last day on the slopes, we had a massive powder day. Here's one of my favorite runs I was doing that day:


Steamboat had a ton of snow. So much that they didn't know where to put it anymore. All the parking lots had gigantic piles of snow in and around them. Here's the family standing by our condo:


The day I did laundry, I mis-timed it and all the clothes were in the dryer when it was time to go to bed. So Adam wore my PJ top for a bit. The helmet was his choice, Safety First, you know:


I also used my vacation time to knit Alex a sweater. I'm very flattered, he wants to wear it every day:


And as for what Ariel was up to while we were gone, I'm not entirely sure. Grandma and Grandpa watched her a few days, as did Laura and Crissy. Gavin was apparently quite taken with Ariel and wanted to feed her all her bottles:


And that is how I spent my vacation.