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There is nothing stopping writing on this blog. I must just be lazy. I also seem to be easily distractible. I accidentally just typed our website address wrong and it gave me the suggestion of an Adam and Danielle at wordpress and I just spent the last 10 minutes reading their blog. We've had interesting things going on too so content isn't an issue.
February, our month of visitors, is already done and gone. We had so much fun. The week that Tracie and Chris came out will forever stay with me. My first skiing experiences at 'big' resorts and enjoying snowshoeing. It was so much fun having university friends out here to enjoy our little neck of the woods.
I'm totally getting distracted right now by The Colonel. We have a Guinness box in the middle of the living room and he just walked up and sat in it. Then he saw his toy a few feet away so he hopped out, got the toy and returned to the box for fun-time with a leopard print feathered ball. I could watch him play all night. Kitties can get totally into their playing. He's being extremely noisy.
Anyway, even soaking in the hot springs didn't keep me from being sore from all the skiing and the snowshoe trek. I wish I had the pics from the snowshoe trip. It was gorgeous. Big snowflakes falling and lots of powder on the ground. If we ask nicely maybe Tracie will link to her flickr in the comments. Pretty please : ) We had to trek across a beaver dam. Twice. Which got the blood pumping. We also did a Silverton shuffle which is something I had been wanting to do since we moved here. There were only 4 places open. It was my kind of shuffle. We also took 2nd place in a snow sculpture contest. We made a sphinx and two pyramids. It was spectacular. Now that they have seen the place we need to start working on getting them to move out here.
Then we had my birthday weekend. On Valentine's Day we took them to the airport and did some grocery shopping. Romantic! Since it was a festival weekend in town there were fireworks. I actually made a loud exclamation of awe because there was one that I swear I had never seen before and I thought it was just that pretty. I'm not an exclaimer generally speaking. On my birthday we went over tp Kendall for some skiing and a soft pretzel. We got home and had some delicious cake and opened gifts. I love my birthday cake so much I took a bunch of photos. Pics of all these things are on my facebook. If you don't have facebook. Go get it.
A week later my mom and aunt came in to the Montrose airport where we met them by the door. Surprise! I had really been looking forward to them coming out. We took them skiing at Kendall and despite what they might say they did a really good job. I forgot how tiring it was for me when I first started and had to pizza-pie everything. We spent a portion of the time just walking up the hill a ways and coming down which is incredibly tiring. not to mention the altitude adjustment. I eventually convinced my mom to get on the lift (the easy part) and then told her she would fall getting off (the hard part) at the top and not to be embarrassed or freak out. She totally slid down on her back the moment her butt left the chair (hahahhah) and then freaked out. Luckily she managed to slide off to the side and there wasn't anyone on the five chairs or so behind us. They didn't even have to stop the lift. Success! She then managed to ski through some rock (everything was starting to melt) and went down a steep icy slope, on her back, and stopped just before hitting a tree. Getting up was the hardest part for her. I kept having to take off one of her skis so she could stand. It took awhile (including me skiing down, going to the bathroom, riding the lift up again, and then skiing back to her and Adam) before she was able to get one long run in and make it all the way to the bottom. It was pretty cool skiing with her. I had it in my head that my parents were anti-ski.
Ok that was kind of a wordy description. This was only the first day in town! We went snowshoeing, shopping, soaking in the hot springs, and for the grand finale snowmobiling. The snowmobiling was particularly fun. None of us had been before and we had a blast. A friend of mine owns a snowmobile tour company so we went on a tour through them. We went further and higher than I expected and we had a lot of fun. Bumps through the woods, roller coaster type hills and then a big climb up to the high point. The views at the top were amazing and we all had SUCH a great time. I have the best picture of the four of us up there. Yay for awesome family.
It's March already and springish weather is here a bit early. It even rained when mom and aunt Carla were here! In February!
February, our month of visitors, is already done and gone. We had so much fun. The week that Tracie and Chris came out will forever stay with me. My first skiing experiences at 'big' resorts and enjoying snowshoeing. It was so much fun having university friends out here to enjoy our little neck of the woods.
I'm totally getting distracted right now by The Colonel. We have a Guinness box in the middle of the living room and he just walked up and sat in it. Then he saw his toy a few feet away so he hopped out, got the toy and returned to the box for fun-time with a leopard print feathered ball. I could watch him play all night. Kitties can get totally into their playing. He's being extremely noisy.
Anyway, even soaking in the hot springs didn't keep me from being sore from all the skiing and the snowshoe trek. I wish I had the pics from the snowshoe trip. It was gorgeous. Big snowflakes falling and lots of powder on the ground. If we ask nicely maybe Tracie will link to her flickr in the comments. Pretty please : ) We had to trek across a beaver dam. Twice. Which got the blood pumping. We also did a Silverton shuffle which is something I had been wanting to do since we moved here. There were only 4 places open. It was my kind of shuffle. We also took 2nd place in a snow sculpture contest. We made a sphinx and two pyramids. It was spectacular. Now that they have seen the place we need to start working on getting them to move out here.
Then we had my birthday weekend. On Valentine's Day we took them to the airport and did some grocery shopping. Romantic! Since it was a festival weekend in town there were fireworks. I actually made a loud exclamation of awe because there was one that I swear I had never seen before and I thought it was just that pretty. I'm not an exclaimer generally speaking. On my birthday we went over tp Kendall for some skiing and a soft pretzel. We got home and had some delicious cake and opened gifts. I love my birthday cake so much I took a bunch of photos. Pics of all these things are on my facebook. If you don't have facebook. Go get it.
A week later my mom and aunt came in to the Montrose airport where we met them by the door. Surprise! I had really been looking forward to them coming out. We took them skiing at Kendall and despite what they might say they did a really good job. I forgot how tiring it was for me when I first started and had to pizza-pie everything. We spent a portion of the time just walking up the hill a ways and coming down which is incredibly tiring. not to mention the altitude adjustment. I eventually convinced my mom to get on the lift (the easy part) and then told her she would fall getting off (the hard part) at the top and not to be embarrassed or freak out. She totally slid down on her back the moment her butt left the chair (hahahhah) and then freaked out. Luckily she managed to slide off to the side and there wasn't anyone on the five chairs or so behind us. They didn't even have to stop the lift. Success! She then managed to ski through some rock (everything was starting to melt) and went down a steep icy slope, on her back, and stopped just before hitting a tree. Getting up was the hardest part for her. I kept having to take off one of her skis so she could stand. It took awhile (including me skiing down, going to the bathroom, riding the lift up again, and then skiing back to her and Adam) before she was able to get one long run in and make it all the way to the bottom. It was pretty cool skiing with her. I had it in my head that my parents were anti-ski.
Ok that was kind of a wordy description. This was only the first day in town! We went snowshoeing, shopping, soaking in the hot springs, and for the grand finale snowmobiling. The snowmobiling was particularly fun. None of us had been before and we had a blast. A friend of mine owns a snowmobile tour company so we went on a tour through them. We went further and higher than I expected and we had a lot of fun. Bumps through the woods, roller coaster type hills and then a big climb up to the high point. The views at the top were amazing and we all had SUCH a great time. I have the best picture of the four of us up there. Yay for awesome family.
It's March already and springish weather is here a bit early. It even rained when mom and aunt Carla were here! In February!
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A blast was had by all, to be sure!
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