Month: January 2020 Page 2 of 4

We were excited to do one last day of skiing. We only made 2 runs happen. It was such a white out at the top Summit it felt dangerous to ski down. We did a run at Roundhouse but it was just time to stop skiing.

Oh, I almost forgot and so bummed I still don’t have a phone and Edwin had left his in the car. How did we not have a camera today?? There were only a handful of people skiing today and when we were about to ski into the chair when we saw Riggins come up. Does anyone have a Riggins trading card from Alpine? Riggins, the cutest golden retriever working dog at Alpine. We of course backed up, said hi, gave pets, but perhaps the best part of our Riggins experience was watching him board the chair lift and get to watch him the whole way up.

It would’ve been nice to get at least a few hours of skiing in before we went home and may very likely be the last Tahoe ski of the season, but alas it was also nice to be at home, watching the snow fall, get the last minute things together, and bake some cookies. Bye Callie, fun last night.

Vera woke up with an ear ache so we spent the morning at the same day urgent care. Her ear ache was mild but we picked up a bottle of amoxicillin in case it got worse. We are planning on leaving tomorrow or Wednesday so didn’t want to get on the road without something if we needed it. But we started with oils last night so we’re going to see if we can heal it with that before we use the antibiotics.

We got back and spent the rest of the day organizing and cleaning the house getting ready to leave. It’s supposed to snow tomorrow so we decided to leave Wednesday. We’ll have everything staged, ski tomorrow, and leave Wednesday.

Daisy did not help. She slept with her own kind.

Operation find Kati’s phone. Was NOT successful. The girls weren’t feeling well or weren’t feeling like skiing so Edwin and I went back to Squaw to go find my phone. With Callie’s metal detector in hand. We had good vibes that we were going to be successful. Veenstra met us at the top of red dog lift and we searched for 2 hours before we stopped. We gave a valiant effort. I really can’t believe we couldn’t find it. Such a bummer. I thankfully have my pictures backed up on iCloud so I wasn’t too concerned about that anymore and my phone was pretty broken so I was ready to get a new phone, but it still had my drivers license, 2 credit cards, and some cash. What a pain it going to be to get those replaced.

Defeated we went down to Olympic village and met up with Matt, a different Matt, Girvan the one I was texting yesterday on the red dog lift which is why I dropped my phone so I should also obviously blame him along with Vera for me dropping my phone 🙁 Matt was having lunch with Roscoe and was waiting for Archie to come down for lunch from ski team. We had lunch and Archie wasn’t up for the afternoon session so we all went back to our house to hang.

The kids played and we watched the KC Chiefs win and the 49ers play and win after them. Off to the Super Bowl they both go. This is going to be a fun match up: Chiefs vs. 49ers.

It was so nice to see Matt and the boys and spend a good chunk of time hanging out. We missed you Amy, we’ll catch you on the flip side.

Squaw day today. We had fun with Matt finding the unskied powder left at Squaw which there was quite a bit on the lower part of the mountain.

What a fun lunch down at the KT base bar. The sun was out. Great music. Lovely morning of skiing. Riley left ski team to meet up with us as well. We bring lunch but we ordered an tasty plate of curly fries. All was well with the world.

We skied headwall in the afternoon because Callie was doing a freestyle competition. The day was running long so they bumped her to the next day. Instead, we skied a run with Callie and Blue. The girls knew Callie was good but man, she’s fast. The girls felt like they “were a baby making their first turn” skiing with Callie. We let Callie lead us down, but Edwin did have to tell Callie, “hey Callie, no cliffs ok” “oh, ok thanks for letting me know”. Ha, nice. Glad we made it down without having to drop off any cliffs.

Enough moguls for the afternoon and everyone was pooped so it was time to head down the mountain. “One more run” I had to say, “I want to do a speed run down Red Dog”. Edwin said he was done for the day, but girls came with me.

Here’s a PSA that apparently I never learned, well did actually learn, but was careless enough to do it anyway. DO NOT TAKE YOUR PHONE OUT ON THE RED DOG LIFT. No, but I had to text a friend and then took a selfie of the 3 of us going up the lift. Really I’m blaming it on Vera (just kidding) because she made a face and so I took another selfie and after I did…hand fumble…phone goes flying out of my hand. And I see it where it goes into the snow. Or at least I thought I did. Of course it was right under the lift in the super steep part right below the top of the lift. I sent the girls down to meet Edwin and tell him that I was going to ski down the face to try and find my phone.

I was convinced I knew where it fell, but no luck to be had. Too bad I didn’t drop my pole as a better marker.

So no pictures from the day. A shame really because I took great ones at lunch 🙁 … and on the red dog lift 😬 … double 🙁

I spent the evening bummed and worried that I had lost all of our road trip pics.

ALPINE. Beautiful blue-bird day. No complaints at all. And I’m finally understanding my skis more.

It was however a bit somber. There was an avalanche here this morning and 2 people were caught in it. One gentlemen passed away. His friend was rushed to the hospital. What a bummer. Well beyond bummer obviously. It was kind of weird skiing today knowing what had happened but they kept the resort open. And last week there was an avalanche up at Silver Mountain in Idaho 3 people died. One of the guys that died was a good skiing buddy of one of our best friends up there. We’re sorry Bill & Heidi

Skiing again. But this is what the morning on the way to the ski hill looks so that we get to do fun stuff like weekday skiing.

Another snow storm coming in today so Callie had a snow day so after we got home from skiing we played outside in the fresh fun snow.

It left a nice blanket of snow.

The girls went inside and watched some TV, while Edwin and I went for a quick 4wheel ride.

Oh and Emily got a cute little dwarf hamster she named Popcorn. Not fair. We want to meet her.

Sledding Day.

There is an awesome golf course close to the house that is awesome for sledding.

It works a few ways…
1. It a good little walk out there, gives the kids excercise
2. It’s enough of an activity to work the day around from
3. It’s sledding, so the excercise getting out there and back up the hill can’t really be called excercise because well…it’s SLEDDING 🙂

It’s snowing today. Yay. And powder day.

New skis for me today. I bought used skis back when we were teaching Isabella to ski about 10 years ago. It was time. We were actually out looking for longer skis for Isabella but couldn’t pass these skis up. And boots. Mainly because when I gave them my boots to size the skis they very awkwardly told me that they would NOT resize the new skis to these boots. They are simply too worn down and unsafe. Soooo, I went back up and found a pair of boots in their consignment part.

Do I dare mention that I’ve been skiing in the same boots that my mom and dad bought me for Xmas when I turned 14 years old? Don’t exactly how I’ve never bought new boots but I went to snowboarding in high school and only started skiing again 10 years ago when we began teaching the kids. Anyway the ski boots have been beyond comfortable, other than my feet would swim in them, but they worked perfectly for my lazy kid skiing. It was time for an upgrade.

What a cranky butt I was today on the mountain. I didn’t even want to lean in on this picture Edwin took.

These new all mountain powder skis are so different then the ones I have I feel like I could barely ski.

Edwin and the girls had a blast. Me, not so much.

Jason, here’s you frickin’ flocked tree for ya

The good thing about it snowing today was that every time I feel it was falling in powder.

We ended our evening going over to Callie’s for dinner. Yummy fondue. And hoverboards. Thanks Tiff & Blue 🙂

Life on the road is hard let me tell you. We wanted a rest day from the friends and skiing so we enjoyed a homework day/lego day/hang out at the house day.

Books I’ve started reading books. Recommend “Where the Crawdads Sing” and Igoduala’s “The 6th Man”

Here’s a pic of Daisy…that says it all.

Ok. We are for real leaving today. We did some last minute errands, got a present for Laura, and went over to JJ’s house after school.

…after Edwin picked up some mulch in Orinda.

The kids played. Laura picked a yummy dinner of pesto pasta, Caesar salad, and ice cream cake.

Edwin had driven over the RV and we left from there.

So this is what happens when you aren’t in the RV regularly for a while. Our biggest “accident” is often forgetting to lock the RV fridge and Edwin makes a turn and the fridge goes flying open and out pours the contents of the refrigerator. It is a total pain, always causes loud shrieking and quick stopping and panic ridden cleaning. We’ve had eggs cartons fly out and break. Brand new gallon milk jugs exploding on impact. Hummus tupperwares falling out and cracking. This time we had remembered to LOCK the fridge…but I had not apparently looked in the fridge because when we had arrived to Julia’s there was white and red liquid leaking out of the fridge and onto the floor. Unfortunately there was an open blackberry seltzer can that was open in the fridge and a glass of milk. Both had fallen over within the fridge and successfully leaked all over the fridge and its various vegetable and condiment compartments. Good think we didn’t just clean the entire fridge the other day 🙁

We weren’t anticipating rain or snow at all today and as we were leaving there was a 30% chance after 10 pm. Well I think we were on the pass for the 1 hour it decided to snow tonight. It made for a longer drive up to Tahoe than anticipated.