Missed me, eh?
I've been sidelined by a case of the flu, which coincided with a festive case of pink eye (just in time for Valentine's Day!). We also had visitors, E and H, which was a lot of fun, because it was H's birthday!
Yesterday, we finally achieved something I was not sure was possible. J kept telling me it was. We got all four of us up a chair lift to the top of the mountain.
Now, this "mountain" was only 150 vertical feet according to J's iphone ski app, so maybe it is more appropriate to call it a hill. Ontario is pretty flat. And, this lift, Little Momma, didn't even go to the top of the hill; more like the middle. But. We all went up a lift, and we all went down a hill, and it wasn't a magic carpet, and there were no tears! Such success!
S and E were even asking to continue skiing, but our lift tickets were only 3 hours, so they expired and we had to leave. E couldn't walk after we took off her boots, so I think that was about time for us to leave.
A few weeks ago, we went up to Blue Mountain, a mountain about 2 hours away from Toronto. According to Torontonians, this is a little mountain compared to the other big ski resorts in Canada, like Whistler (where the 2010 Olympics were), Mont Tremblant in Quebec, and the Canadian Rockies (where J will ski later this month). They are a little insecure about the size of their ski mountains. According to me, this is a BIG mountain. It only has 1 green run from the top of the mountain. I like to say I'm a teal skier, in that I'm more comfortable on the green but I can ski some blue, depending on the location. At Blue Mountain, I am decidedly a green skier. The blues were scary. Or, as the instructor said, I need more milage. It is hard to get milage with two little ones, until they are both in ski school. Maybe next year.
But after yesterday, that doesn't seem so far away!
Adorable!! They are doing so well with their skiing!
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