Since it was the last day of the session, some of the groups did special costumes. Adam's teacher brought everyone a feather from her pet Macaw. Adam talked about getting the feather all week:
Adam skied level 4 this session. That means he rode the big lifts and did mainly green and blue runs. He was the smallest and youngest of his group. The terrain was fine for him, but he had trouble keeping up some of the time. Nevertheless, I think it was a good fit for him to be challenged. He actually does pretty well when he's trying and not goofing off.
Alex skied level 6. He was skiing blue and some black with trees and bumps. They even were doing the race gates (more on that late). He's also finally upgraded to poles. I don't think he uses them much while skiing, but they do come in handy when it's flat. Here he is in blue next to his instructor at the beginning of the day:
Once we drop the kids off, Jeremy and I have 6 hours to ski. Which is about 2-3 hours longer than we would do on our own. We did our first 3 runs in the little terrain park. We did some baby jumps (Jeremy went off bigger ones than I did). Actually, I don't mind the jumping so much, it's the landing that doesn't always go so well. On the 3rd trip I tried a big flat tabletop. The tabletop went fine, but it dumped out 2 feet off the ground and surprised me. I fell pretty hard on my front, that was a new thing. But beyond bruising my hip, I didn't hurt anything.
After that, we skied around until lunch. We found Alex at the Outpost at lunch, and he told us he's been doing the NASTAR race course. I have always wanted to try it. I talk about it all the time, especially when we ride the lift that goes oven the course. But I thought it cost $20/race and that seemed a bit high. But after lunch we went and looked at it and it's only $2/run (it's more if you get into the NASTAR database, but we thought we'd just try it out first).
We each got in 2 races before they closed at 2:30. Jeremy's times were 24.9 and 24.5. I think my first time was 34, and my second was 37 because I slipped on a turn and sat down. The course was pretty hard because it wasn't that steep but the turns were really icy (as is most of Keystone these days). Alex's ski teacher thought his time was 34 seconds too, but I won't believe until I see it. We are so going back next weekend, I have to get under 30 seconds!
After ski school, we didn't want to sit in traffic so we went to the Silverthorne rec center to swim. They have a pretty cool pool, including a 10' dive pool. The boys amazed me by both going to the bottom to retrieve rings. Once Jeremy showed us all how to pop our ears underwater so the pressure doesn't hurt, we all took trips to the bottom. Jeremy and I took turns bringing up a 5 lbs brick (and now my upper body is aching).
We finished the day with a Chipolte dinner and got on the road at 6:45. We hit a bit of traffic around Idaho Springs, but still made it home in 90 minutes. And we were all wiped from our 15 hour day.
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