Our First Day of Skiing

After a tearful parting from Keira at Grandpa and Grandma's, Mark and I set off for Colorado with our family and friends. We got into Frisco yesterday evening and have been enjoying ourselves tremendously. I struggle to force myself not to call Jim and Margaret to check on Keira, but rest assured knowing she's in good hands. That, and Jim sends me pictures of Keira every day (so far). :-)

Yesterday we enjoyed a quiet day getting settled in, followed by dinner at a local restaurant called the Blue Spruce. Today we woke up and hit Breckenridge. This was Linh's first time skiing EVER and she did amazingly well. None of us can believe that this was her first time. She didn't even take a lesson. We got her into ski gear, gave her some quick instructions and sent her up the lift. The first time I went on a lift (about 5 years ago), I came down and fell face first. Linh came down without any effort and looked like a pro. Anyway, everyone did really well. At the end of the afternoon, Linh decided to try out the freestyle terrain which included jumping off these man-made hills. She fell, but did it with awesome style and I was amazed at how brave she was to do that and how quickly she adapted to skiing. Since she did it and egged me on, I decided to have a go at it too. I wiped out on every single hill, but the thrill of the jump was fun, even if I only came up about 6" off the ground! I'll post a mini video of my wipe out when attempting the jump when we get home.

Here we are at the top of one of the runs at Breckenridge. From left to right, Stacy, John, Van, Nam, Steve, Linh, Mark and me.