We've all heard the term "stay-cation" over and over, which implies that one stays home, while having the fun of a vacation. This was almost that. Does it count as a vacation if you are only 25 minutes from home? We got a last-minute deal on a condo in Eden, so off we went...
...or so we thought. The stupid place we were going to turned out to be at the tippity top of mount Crumpit, which only snowmobiles, 4-wheel drive cars and chains could get to. So slap on some chains, you say? Easier said than done. I was supposed to work 3 times that week (I couldn't get it off, so that's why we chose someplace close) and I REFUSED to take chains on and off my tires each morning at 6:15. So we ended up in a hotel that night in good ol' Ogden. No pool, like the condo we were supposed to go to, so we improvised:
The bright side of this dilemma was that our hotel was across the street from the Ogden window lights.
The snow made everything so gorgeous that weekend!
The view from our 6th floor in the hotel:
The end of the condo story is that they put us in Wolf Creek, which is seven miles down Mount Crumpit from the original condo. Much better, with plowed roads and everything! (still no swimming pool:(
The bright side of this dilemma was that our hotel was across the street from the Ogden window lights.
The snow made everything so gorgeous that weekend!
The view from our 6th floor in the hotel:
The end of the condo story is that they put us in Wolf Creek, which is seven miles down Mount Crumpit from the original condo. Much better, with plowed roads and everything! (still no swimming pool:(So we went sledding in the plethora of snow:
I am sad while I type this, as right now there is NO snow to be seen ANYWHERE!
Ethan wasn't too thrilled at first:
We sled all the way down the canyon to see this big guy:
(okay, that's not true, but we did go see Santa)
I am sad while I type this, as right now there is NO snow to be seen ANYWHERE!
Ethan wasn't too thrilled at first:
We sled all the way down the canyon to see this big guy:
(okay, that's not true, but we did go see Santa)And then we went sledding some more:
They were so cute pulling the sleds up the hill!
Ethan was very brave and rode on Daddy
We decided we hadn't packed our suits for nothin' so we went swimming at a local pool. Somehow when we got there, we realized no one had packed Ethan's swimsuit. So he just had to wear a swim diaper and the plastic pants. He didn't mind.
That is the end of our Lame-cation. Lame that we were close to home, lame that I had to work 3 times out of a 7 day vacation. But Joel had taken the days off work, and we were NOT going to let them go to waste!
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They were so cute pulling the sleds up the hill!
Ethan was very brave and rode on Daddy
We decided we hadn't packed our suits for nothin' so we went swimming at a local pool. Somehow when we got there, we realized no one had packed Ethan's swimsuit. So he just had to wear a swim diaper and the plastic pants. He didn't mind.
That is the end of our Lame-cation. Lame that we were close to home, lame that I had to work 3 times out of a 7 day vacation. But Joel had taken the days off work, and we were NOT going to let them go to waste!.............................................................
In other news, Cassidy had her dance recital yesterday and did a good job, I think. It was hard to tell, because she was in the back and we had a bad angle and kept having a hard time finding her. But she looked dang cute!
.............................................................Oh yah, and Baby is a girl. ETA: April 8, 2011
Her name is probably ALEXA
