Whistler Spring

D'oh! Okay, places everyone!

For Spring Break, Annie's and Kian's that is, we took an extra long weekend/the better part of a week and went up to Whistler for some Spring Nordic. Did we ever hit the weather right: perfect blue sky and sunshine every day! We'd thought about going to Mexico where so many of our other friends and family went, but decided any old border would do and right now in our world sunshine is sunshine. Viva el Casa Rodante! Viva nieve con sol! Viva poutine!

Our original idea was to rent a yurt that is right on the ski trails just out of the village so that we could bust up in my new gas sipping car, but we narrowly missed out and so we ended up borrowing the Krebby family RV that is super spacious but is no gas sipper. What extra we spent in gas we made up for in free accommodations and ski-side convenience. There is nothing like having ski-in and ski-out room right on the trails especially when you have a kid who might not last for a full 3 hour session.

Snowball fight!

Gearing up in the RV!

Waiting for daddy. Let's go!

Back at the rings! Lots of great memories from 2010 Olympics.

First day skiing the highlight was the Magic Carpet!

This became a daily routine.

The other daily routine was sledding on Kian's new Penguin saucer sled that is rippin fast. We found a steep slope not far from the trails and we hit that thing hard and often. Usually the days would go like this: one of us goes out for the morning nordic session for the colder firmer faster snow while the other cleaned up breakfast and then took Kian out for his ski fundamentals session at the Blackcomb Village kiddie slope. It was about 1km from the RV so I'd load the chariot up with the gear and let Kian ride behind me on his "fatboy" and we'd lock it all up at the base of the slopes while he skied.

Kian skied about 30 minutes for the first two days and on the 3rd day, probably still just in his 2nd of skiing, he "got it" and then it was hard to pry him away from the Magic Carpet and the slope. I spent the first days working on his plow and turns, boring, but on day 3 we figured he was ready to let his motor skills take over and he'd bomb down the 100 meter run and get right back onto the carpet without hardly a turn. Lovin it!

Vids coming!