Skiing on St. Patricks Day

On St. Patrick's Day, we took Emily and Angela skiing for the first time. They took a lesson in the morning, which was a very good thing because I don't know anything about teaching kids to ski and Matthew doesn't ski and has only been snowboarding a couple of times. It also allowed Matthew and I to do some of our own skiing/snowboarding for a couple of hours. They had a blast in their lesson. The tube in the background is a moving walkway (called a magic carpet) that carries them up the slope. By the end of their lesson, they were very comfortable on this gentle slope and were just going around and around. In the afternoon we took them over to the bunny hill on the chairlift. It was a mistake to take Angela, she wasn't ready for it, so Matthew took her back to the magic carpet. Emily had a hard time down the first time, but then was getting the hang of it after that. I was just glad that they had fun and had a good experience. It was a fun day just hanging out without the little girls in tow.

They started out with their coats and gloves on.

But I guess they got too warm.

By mid-morning Emily looked like this. It was not a warm day, it was about 30 degrees, but she gets hot very easily. She did wear her coat again in the afternoon, thank goodness, but I don't think she wore her gloves at all.