Thursday, February 03, 2011

Steamboat Springs Vacation 2011




Monday night we returned home from a fabulous vacation to Steamboat Springs.  We headed to CO last Thursday with Uncle T and we met up with Grandma and Grandpa A for a fun ski vacation.
Jon and I had not been skiing for 11 years. The trio had never been skiing. We were so excited to enroll them into Ski School so they could have help learning how to ski from the professionals. We were so pleased with the Steamboat Springs Ski School.They are very well organized and truly have the method for teaching kids how to ski down to a science. Our kids were lucky enough to have Matt teach them how to ski. We were blessed that Matt was there instructor for all three days of ski school and the kids when from a level 0 (never skied before) to a level 3 in just 3 days. Matt was "fun" and the kids adored him. The first day when we picked them up from Ski School, they announced that their ski instructor was in the olympics. I laughed or course at this especially when they followed that up with his name is Shaun White! LOL! We sure gave "shaun White" some grief the next day! We were lucky enough to spend the last half of the last day skiing with them and Jon and I could not be more proud or impressed with how much they learned in just 3 short days.
It was truly a glorious time. The sun was out everyday and the temps were in the 30's. We truly lucked out on the weather as the day we left there is was snow storming and everyday since it has been below zero for the temps. The sun shining and 30 degress is such awesome weather for skiing.
We also had a fun time hanging out with Uncle T and Grandma and Grandpa. The house we rented was a ski in and out of place and we had some truly amazing views from the unit. It was the perfect set up and to be honest we ordered food in most nights as it was easier and more relaxing than going out to eat. Once night we had a steak dinner that was to die for! We saw three glorious sunsets and Jon was able to capture some fun and clear pictures with his new camera.
We have vowed to go back and do that same vacation again possibly even next year. As we were packing up our bags to come home on Monday morning, K asked Jon if we could get him some skis when we got home. We have promised to take the kids skiing yet this winter season. It feels great to be back into the skiing world.

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