Ski/Tubing Day Trip

Last year, we spent a weekend tubing and skiing.  It was a lot of fun and I have been trying to figure how to repeat this.  The challenge, is that we have 4 small kids, and really need a third pair of hands if we were all going to go to a ski resort. 

I had been thinking about whether or not we should bring a sitter with us, leave Kyle behind with a sitter, etc.  My mom was just out here visiting so I didn't want to ask her to come again so soon and Grandma Sandy will be in Taiwan for another month or two.  So ski season will be done by the time she is stateside.

Another risk to planning a formal trip during the winter, is the risk of having to cancel something last minute due to viruses. 

Well, Saturday, I realized we are all healthy, and had nothing mandatory on Sunday.  So, I asked our sitter Montana, if she was free from 8 AM to 10 PM the next day, and by some miracle she was!

So after the kids went to bed we packed up van with snacks for the next day and ski clothes.  We let the kids know our destination at breakfast.  Lainey, who isn't a fan of cold weather, decided she would rather stay home with Montana.   We asked her multiple times and she was adamant.

So Carson and Erik piled into the van and off we went.  The nearest ski resorts are about 150 miles from our house.  We still had plenty of time and bought a 4 hour ski lift ticket and 2 hour tubing ticket for everyone.   Carson was actually very enthusiatic about skiing.  We kept him on the bunny hill, but he would ride up the "magic" carpet and ski back down, then go up again.   Erik went to a 1 hour ski refresher course and then was good to go.  He was much more cautious/responsible while skiing this year.  I was happy about that!

Victor and I split our time between Carson and Erik while skiing.

After our skiing block closed we headed straight to the tubing hill.  This was awesome!!  900 foot sledding hills!  Carson was pretty tired and I thought he might not make it through the tubing block.  I had to encourage him down the runs the first 2-3 times.  After that, he literally jumped out of the tube and ran as fast as he could to the "escalator."  Haha!

It really was fun!  I am hoping to make it back once more this season.

Lainey had a great time with our sitter.  She and Kyle spent the day at our sitters house - went to church, painted nails, watched a movie, and fed chickens.   She seemed to have a good day.  I showed her a video of Carson tubing, and she did say, "Do you think I can go next time?"   Hopefully we can find another improptu day to do this again before the ski season is over.