Helloooooooo Colorado!

Marty and I are in Colorado! This is our first ski trip here together. OMG it is gorgeous here. Absolutely lovely. I forgot how much I enjoyed being around big hills like these :) Today we skied at Winter Park. The weather was great and we had a blast. We are sooo tired today. We were so excited to do some serious skiing that we didn't take a break until after about 5 hours. After a bowl of chili we were back at it. Unfortunately I had a ski malfunction quite high up and we needed a screwdriver to fix it. There was no one around so we had to hike down to the next lift, about 1000 feet below. We were exhausted. At one point M ended up with one leg buried in snow up to his waist. We are able to giggle about these things now that we are warm and resting :) Winter Park/Mary Jane are great places to ski, we only scratched the surface but we did ride up to the tippy top and look out over creation. Gorgeous.

A few observations about Denver thus far: Outback wagons are to Dever as Sienna vans are to Cinci, people are in great shape...everyone is fit and looks to be active, this last deduction results from the observation of plentiful roof racks/ski boxes on top of everyone's cars, not everyone has a great new car (even old hondas have roof racks on them), sporting goods stores are everywhere (and they have way more options than "Dick's), people here don't have any odd accents (they sound like me!!)...it seems that people spend way more time with their families exploring the great outdoors than they do back in Cinci, it's nice.

Tomorrow we ski Arapahoe Basin......hooray!!