It was yet another perfect weekend of sunshine between the Spring snowstorms. I guess Casper gets most of it's moisture during their March snowstorms. Well, we can attest to the fact that is has snowed a lot in the past two weeks. We deal with slush/snow covered roads and scraping off windows during week and on the weekends it's like this. During the week everyone suffers and we've even had to go buy better outerwear! It is a treat to have the weekend weather be as beautiful as this one has been. Today we decided to go skiing for half a day. The joys of living 15 minutes from a ski slope.
Tony broke his binding to his snowboard after the 3rd run and was grounded at the lodge the rest of the time. Bummer that Mountain Sports didn't have a binding for sale on the mountain otherwise we could have just repaired it and sent him on his way. Instead he kept the lodge warm for us and played chess on his telephone.
Monique didn't join us because she had athletic training today. She however did call while we were up on the mountain saying "can you bring me some gas...my car ran out of gas". Yeah right. She ended up having to fix that problem on her own. Life lessons learned! We missed her. As is usual Elisabeth and Mannie skied together. Mannie "spilled" more today than in a long time. She actually saw some beautiful blue skies with white puffy cotton candy looking clouds whiz by. It was a good thing that snowpants repel moisture because today one kid yelled from the skilift "did you fall?" and she said "No, we are snow girls instead of snow men" as she stood there covered head to foot in snow. Quite funny actually. Elisabeth didn't think so because it took her nearly 30 minutes to get her boot back in her binding on on a very steep incline at the top of a black diamond. Her skis kept wanting to slide down the mountain every time she wanted to put the snap the boot in. Frustration did set in.
Everyone was tired when they came home and we had the yummiest homemade Aspargus soup. Amazing how three hours of skiing can do you in.
2 comments:
How fun. :) It's neat that there are so many fun things to do in Wyoming!!!
We decided that you need to come up with the four legged chitlins and have fun with us this summer.
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