Last weekend (President's Day weekend) we took a spur of the moment trip to the snow. Ciara had the week off from school, and all the kids were asking about going to the snow. Luckily we managed to get a rental and get everyone geared up in time to go. We set off on Sat and managed to avoid the holiday traffic, still ran into some as we got closer to the mountains, mostly big rigs being turned around. It started to snow as soon as we got there and I do not think it stopped the whole time we were there, the snow ploughs were constatntly going. We stayed in Soda Springs right across from a ski resort, we checked that out on Sun and they had a special play area for kids under 8, that worked out perfect for us, they were able to try tubing and sking. Ciara had one bad wipe out that set her back for a while but she got going again. The next day we just played in the snow around where we were staying, Ron managed to make a sledding hill from the piles of snow around the deck and they had a great time going up and down there. Next day was time to head home again, in order to get home we first had to dig the truck out of the snow, chains were required on the way home and driving on the white, snowed out freeway with no other cars around us made it feel like a real adventure.
