Anyway we got ready slowly yesterday morning since it was so very cold outside I knew no matter what time we hit the mountains and no matter how many layers of clothing we had on, we were going to freeze our butts off and that was no kidding. We really didn't hit any snow till almost the top of the mountain and both Dave and I were getting worried we had made the trip for nothing, having said that we both knew if we didn't find any decent snow we would just go to the ski lodges and play in that snow.
We eventually found an area which looked like it would be fun to slide down, we had lent two boards from a friend so any slope would be good for us, us meaning Dave and Jade of course since there was no way I wanted to do that, it was cold enough so to me getting wet wasn't an option, I know ... I know ... I am getting old, as long as Jade had fun with Dad she didn't care that I didn't do it :-) thank Heavens.
I didn't take too many pictures yesterday, I took more video but I will slot in pics where I have them ...
Mom you might remember this place, we took you there too but it was too cold we didn't walk all the way down but stopped quickly for a pic or two.
Anyway back to where Dave and Jade played, omg it was so cold, I can't even begin to tell you, none of us have ever felt cold like that, the weather said it was -10 but they also said it felt like -14, I tell you something, I don't know what it was but all I can tell you is, you could hardly breath it was so cold and no matter how many layers you had on, the wind chilled you to the bone, it was terrible. Dave said even though he had gloves on, he lost the feeling in his hands, Jade on the other hand was the only one not complaining and she had to have felt it, poor thing.
The slope they were going down was quite steep but I walked half way down to take the video so you really can't get the full effect but anyway, you can tell they had fun, it was short lived though coz it was just so darn cold. Here are the vids ...
After that we drove to the ski lodge we took my mom to when she was here visiting what feels like forever ago, this was pretty cool, it wasn't as cold as where we were playing on the boards, it was almost ok if you stood in the sun of course. They had an outside ice rink which we were going to let Jade go on but once she got playing in the snow that was all that mattered to her so we didn't do the ice skating, below you can see the outside rink and some of the ski slopes in the back.
Here she hadn't hit the soft snow yet but she just wanted to play in the 'snow' which really was ice here, she would pick up these huge pieces of iced snow as you will see in pics below and think she was holding a snow ball but gosh, if you were hit by her snow balls you would know it for sure, nothing like a real snowball :-)
Here we were in the 'real' snow, it felt like real snow but we weren't sure since they had a good deal of snow on the slopes but sometimes if they don't have enough, overnight they make more but as far as Jade was concerned this was real snow, to us too since we didn't know any better.
Ok this is the only proof I have that I was even there (hehehe), gosh it was cold !!!
This is a video of the ski resort we were at.
This is a funny one, can you tell that Jade thought I was going to take a photo of her when I was really just taking a video, it's kinda funny, I guess she is so used to me with the camera around her all the time.
Dave thought this would be a really impressive picture (hehehe), mom this is outside the Golden Corral restaurant that we took you to last time, we had lunch here yesterday.
Well I think that is enough posting for one day don't you think :-) If someone get's in here early and looks at the blog I know there is at least one video which is still busy loading from YouTube so if you check back later I am sure it will be ready to view then.
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