We made a plan this week to go skiing today at Park City. Mel and Christian were on in our plan, and they came up last night and spent the night. Today we pulled it off our master plan. We did something. We went, we skied. Go team.
We packed gear last night. This morning we were up by 7 with the plan to leave at 8, but we didn't get out until 8:15. The traffic wasn't bad and we were pulling into the parking lot at 9. That was where we seemed to get delayed. Took forever for everyone to find their gloves and get their boots on and find their skis and poles etc etc...
Once a handful of the kids were ready, we told them to head over to the Cabriolet. Corey, Katharine, and I were the last ones to go on it. Katharine said it was fun. Everyone was waiting for us at the gondola. I took K potty first, then we took the Red Pine Gondola up. Fun.
I asked if she was going to ski with me. She said no. She is going to ski with her dad.
We were finally on the hill at 10. It was very crowded. We went up Saddleback Express. I told them that when Corey and I were here, the Sun Peak Express was fun and not busy, so we started down together that way, but then the kids all took off south on Mainline while Corey and I and PK went down Eclipse to Sun Peak. I skied with K for a moment and then she wanted Corey to carry her. I admit it was prob a little steep for a 3 year old.
We went up Sun Peak and then back toward Hidden Meadow where we stayed for most of the day. Con becauset that lift is busy, but pro cause it's an easy hill. It's also close to the bathrooms, so it was good. We told the kids to meet at Tombstone at 1 o'clock for lunch. Yesterday I got food at Walmart for lunch. Corey suggested sandwiches, but I didn't want to buy bread when we had wheat sourdough bread I made, even though the kids didn't love it.... I got Nutella and figured if I gave it a good coating, the kids would tolerate it. Corey packed that up in his backpack and carried it around all morning with two water bottles. Lunch time.
It worked out great. Corey "We just saved ourselves thousands of dollars!!" Haha, yeah, cause they charge $35 for a hamburger meal! So that was lunch, plus bananas and clementines, and then I also got Clif Bars and Beef sticks for everyone to take with them and I told them this was it for food - make it last, that's gotta get you through until 3. We took the group pic (at top of post) and then told them to have fun and meet us at 3pm at Red Pine. They all went up Tombstone and Corey and I went up Over and Out and then down Raptor Way so we could show Peter and Katharine the Orange Bubble Lift! They loved it.
Corey took K after that and I stayed with Peter. We did Hidden Meadow a lot of times. He liked the Hidden Bear green trail on the west of that lift, where you could sneak through the trees a little bit. We did that over and over. One time there were other kids on the trail and he and I got separated momentarily. I saw him, skied toward him, and then he sunk under the tree where he had been waiting for me.
Luckily Corey came by right then and he was able to rescue Peter. Some kids were done at 3 and they met up with Corey and took K back to the car. Corey stayed at Red Pine to count kids as they left. Peter wanted to keep going "one more time" and since Corey was still waiting for so and so, we'd go again. Owen went again, then we went again to try and catch him. "Ok, last run" - we said that a few times. Finally we were like "Ooookkkkaaaayy" and we took off our skis. Everyone is headed down?" Corey said Mel Christian and Owen went one more time on Hidden Meadow, and Peter said "I want to go one more time!" So we went one more time. And that really was our last one at 3:49, cause the Red Pine Gondonla closed at 4 so we needed to get on it to get back to the car. Though once we were on it we realized we prob could have skied down, darn! I like that Peter and Owen were so die hard! We were able to pack up quickly and got home a little after 5. I asked Corey if he wanted to go out for a date, since we missed last night (I was at a bridal shower) and he said yes, but then we both fixed ourselves a bowl of fruit and yogurt with homemade granola, and realized we prob didn't want to go out to eat now. So he has been working, I went with Abi to visit a neighbor who gave her some dresses for her mission, and now I'm doing laundry and giving kids baths before church tomorrow. It was a great and perfect ski day. I never like all the getting ready, but once that is behind us it's fun to ski and grea. Now I'm just putting things back in order! I'll finish that on Monday.
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