Family Ski Trip!!

Our family thought it would be a great idea to all drive up 6 hours to the tip of WI in the middle of winter and go skiing. Of course all the girls were a bit sad as we preferred a family vaca somewhere warm for goodness sake. But the guys were totally excited. We rented a condo at Big Powderhorn, packed a ton of fleeces, all my scarfs and coordinating hats, long underwear, wool socks... things I never pack when on vaca... vaca should be tank tops! Who's idea was it to leave at 4 am anyway?? Not mine. And we had to leave the poor little bean. 6 hours and 3 potty breaks later, we get not to a snow covered, winter wonderland, but a slushy mess! The guys went skiing anyway, and us girls just sat in the hot tub... the one that belonged to the condo next to us as our's was broken!! Needless to say it didn't get fixed til 2 hours before we ended up leaving. Oh well... thankfully Friday night brought a beautiful snow fall and we all got up and put on our boots, hats, snowpants and etc. Sat. morning ready to take off. Mom, Christie and I stuck together and found out that Mom is terrified of the ski lift!! She made quite the exit off the bunny hill lift as she rounded the corner at the lift exit, then jumped off and landed face first! I subsequently peed my pants at the sight of that. Once at the top of the hill, we girls had NO clue which slope to go down. There was nothing marked, and after at least 30 mintues of inching our way up an incline to a map, which offered us still no clue, we picked a slope and snow plowed our way down. We all ended up on our butts, and later found out it was a fairly advanced slope!
All in all, it was a fun time. Mom will probably never go again, I fell a million times, Dave, of course, was awesome and hung out on the black diamonds with the other guys the whole time. Jer learned to snow board, Dad threw out his back trying new tricks, and Diddy and I mastered every green slope and then advanced ourselves to a few blue ones!!