Ski Trip Extravaganza Pictures

Jeremy and I were lucky enough to have some ski days sans kids this holiday vacation. We spent weekend #1 in Breckenridge with my SIL Sarah and her boyfriend Devon. Our best day was probably Saturday the 22nd, the snow was nice and there weren't any crowds to speak of at Breckenridge. We spent the day on Peaks 8 & 7.

On Sunday we ventured over to Keystone, mainly because we could with our passes and Devon didn't think he'd ever been. The snow wasn't as nice and it was more crowded and cold but we still got some good runs in.

We weren't sure about skiing on Monday but Sarah spent Sunday afternoon shopping for new ski boots and wanted to try them out so we did a quick day at Breck on Peak 10.

Here's a picture looking back down the lift.



My tough husband.



Sarah and our illegitimate step brother Kyle. Oh yeah, we skied all weekend with Kyle too:



Sarah's fancy new boots with special heaters:



Devon and Sarah apres ski at Breckenridge Brewery:



And Monday, as you might recall, was Christmas Eve. We stopped skiing around noon, had lunch and then headed down to Colorado Springs for Christmas Festivities. Much festivities were had, I'll have to make a separate post with those pictures.

Jeremy and I headed back up to Breck on Boxing Day. We skied on Thursday and it was COLD. On the way to the parking lot, our car said it was -4:



This is how I ride when it's -4 (and actually up to 20 degres), Jeremy calls it my ninja look. Not an inch of exposed skin anywhere. We had hand and feet warmers and it wasn't actually too bad, but the crowds were bigger than before Christmas.

And also in this picture, you can see my new stickers on my board. Don't I look sick? (I think that's a new word for awesome, but I may be 15 years too old to use it):



Jeremy says these are the ugliest sunglasses in the world, I think that's a bit of an exaggeration. Though perhaps my neck warmer on my head is a bit over the top.



And we returned Friday for yet another day on the slopes. On this day, it was WAY crowded and WAY cold and WAY crappy snow. On my second run Jeremy tried to take me on a tree/bump run and I did something stupid and fell on a little tree and really bruised my butt. And it's such a nice bruise that I wanted to share it with you, but not so much my butt. So here's my super cool bruise on a much hotter butt:



After falling, I decided the only thing that would make me feel better was peanut m&ms in the lodge. I overpaid ($1.72 for a regular pack ?!?!) and enjoyed. We were ready to go back and try a few more runs but the lift line had to be 20 minutes long so we called it a day.

And that is how I spent my winter break.