We Go Skiing

One of these days, we are going to (re)join the family in attending the annual ski trip. Really.

In the meantime, we'd like to get the kids on skis so they don't have any difficulty 'fitting in' with the rest of the gang when they're out on the slopes. So it is important for us to find a place to practice.

Michigan isn't known for fantastic winter sport facilities -- at least not known to us -- but we have to use whatever is available. Luckily, there are quite a few skiing lodges within a reasonable distance of our home, and we decided to take advantage of that short distance today when our friends down the street invited us to go with them.

We had originally planned on having the boys do some tubing and the girls take the skiing lessons, but Deb decided at the last minute that she didn't really want to go; and then when we got to the lodge, the tubing area was closed due to poor snow conditions (it was too warm to maintain the powder, and everything was turning to slush, and tubes are worse than skis for sticking to soggy snow); so it was just Mary and I out on the slopes while the boys hung out in the lodge and chatted, or went outside and threw snowballs.

Mary had a wonderful time. She had a one-hour private lesson, and her father was encouraged to go somewhere else so he wouldn't interrupt the lesson with bad advice (or just distract her with his presence); so I went to the intermediate slope and tried to find my snowfeet again.

After the lesson, Mary and I practiced back on the bunny slope for a couple hours - that girl has some serious stamina! -- with a break for lunch in-between.

Then it was time to go home.

NOTE: I added a link to our Flickr website in the "Links" section. And there are new photos posted!