Ski 'n Soak

Our annual 2-day ski trip was to Sunlight Mountain in Glenwood Springs.  I had bought passes on Cyber Monday and got excellent deals!  I was able to buy "ski and soak" passes for $50 - which was awesome as regular lift tickets are $65 and the hot springs is almost $20.  I mean, it still adds up of course - but we are thankful for deals because otherwise we wouldn't be able to do this!  Emmy was free with the 5th grade passport and so that was helpful, too.

So we left bright and early - okay, it wasn't bright yet - on Friday morning.  The girls' bookclub is reading Holes this month and I was able to download it to my phone and so we listened to it on the trip.  It's sooooo good!  Miles has already read it like a dozen times and now I know why.  It's awesome; we all loved it.

Anyways, we had two great days of skiing.  Sunlight really is a great mountain for us - fun runs, challenging runs, etc.  One of our family's favorite run is "Ute."  It's a 2 1/2 mile green-run - but oh so fun!  Fast, rolling hills.  It's a blast.  After skiing each day we went and soaked at the Glenwood Hot Springs.  It was perfect and totally warmed up our bones after a day of skiing in the snow.  We stayed at a place in New Castle (10 miles west of Glenwood) and it was a decent place.  :)

It was a fabulous trip and I think it might be our new tradition - skiing and soaking at Glenwood.  That's pretty hard to beat!

 Atop Sunlight!

 Flashback to Atari - our place on Friday night had atari.  Pretty fun!

 Our Saturday morning breakfast - we went all out and had bacon (fake-n, as Ben called my Turkey Bacon), eggs, and banana-walnut pancakes.  It was delicious and filled us up for quite some time!

 Saturday skiing.

 The kids all love jumps!

 Cool!

 This is some "chapel" in the woods.  We were all supposed to ski through it . . . there goes Emmy.

 Jonas. . .

 Miles . . .

 Me . . .

 Whoops, Lucy went first and didn't know what we were doing.  She was pretty bummed about it.  I love this picture.  :)

Jumps!

Skiing down Ute.  The kids do know how to turn - you just don't have to do to much of that on Ute.  Especially if you want to cruise . . . :)

 Here we are after getting all warmed up in the hot springs.  Loved it.

 We walked to our restaurant in downtown Glenwood - Lucy wanted to keep the towel on her head while we walked.  :)

 The Hotel Colorado was awesomely lit!

 Due to popular recommendation from my facebook question of where to eat in Glenwood, we went to Slope and Hatch.  It was good, but interesting.  Miles and I shared two different types of fish "tacos."  Jonas ordered a lamb taco, but didn't really like it.  He and Ben shared and so luckily he liked whatever it was that Ben had ordered.  The girls had hot dogs - but didn't really like them!  (Actually, they were kind of weird . . . ).

Well at least all the kids enjoyed their special cream sodas!  :)

We got home by about 10:30 that night . . . and finished listening to Holes. Well, the girls and Ben fell asleep and so they didn't finish it - so we'll have to read the rest.

What a great time with our family - as Emmy said, "We (meaning the siblings . . .) don't fight much when we are skiing!"  Don't worry, they made up for it on Sunday.