Good bye ski season

Skiing pictures from March

A few weeks ago, we had a lucky opportunity for a family to watch Ava so that Jason and I could take Rachel skiing.  The ski season this year has been awesome, and the snow is still decent - even now in May.

We had a fun day taking Rachel to Keystone.  We were able to park in our friends' parking spot near the gondola, in a covered parking area.  This made things really easy, and made us wish we could buy a place near the slopes!

Rachel did an amazing job skiing.  She skis beside us and holds on to our poles.  She loves to go fast.  She doesn't really know how to turn or stop, but she can balance well and hold up her own weight.  She doesn't love to ride up on the chairlift, and doesn't like it if the lift attendant touches her to help.  She wears a little backpack with a handle that we don't attach the harness to, but it allows us to lift her up on to the chair lift.  She carries Nunu in her little pack so he can ski, too.

Jason took a few runs on his own, but mostly we were there to ski with Rachel.  It's hard work for one adult to ski with Rachel.  She takes long runs - a long time to hold a squat position!

Rachel had her first wipe out, but it wasn't a big deal.  She also rode through the park for the first time, and went over her first real jumps and her first plastic box.

We were all about done just after lunch, and headed back to the car.  Our friends had given us keys to the resort hot tub, so we had a nice soak as snow flakes fell all around.

When we arrived at the turn on to I-70, we saw that the highway was closed.  We pulled over and waited and panicked because Ava was without too much extra milk and we weren't sure how long our drive home might be.  But, thankfully, the highway opened up after about 30 min and we were near the front of it all, and made it home without any further drama.

We are sad we didn't get to ski more this year.  There's a small chance we might get in one more day, so we aren't putting the skis away just yet.  But we have to decide what we are going to do for next year - which resort(s), are we going to rent a winter place, what passes, and if Rachel will enter a formal program.