Our Winter Getaway

After 2 years of Tommy heading off on January ski trips without me, my busy season finally starts a little later up here in Connecticut, so I was able to join him. We headed to Copper Mountain, Colorado with Austin, Travis, Chrissy and some of their family for a long Martin Luther King weekend.

We arrived Thursday afternoon and spent the rest of the day settling in to the condo, picking up our skis and getting groceries for our stay. We ate dinner at a Mexican restaurant in Frisco. Yes, even the Mexican Food in Colorado is much better than Connecticut!

Here's the view of the slopes from the balcony of our condo:

We headed out to the slopes bright and early on Friday morning. We had absolutely beautiful weather the entire time - 25 to 35 degrees, sunny and not too windy. I was a little nervous at first because I hadn't been skiing in quite a few years, but I don't think its something you forget too easily. After a fun day skiing, we headed over to the tubing hill. We slid down the mountain for about an hour before heading back to the condo for shish-kabobs. So fun!

Saturday was another full day of skiing. For dinner, we headed to CB Grill, a fancy restaurant with steaks, fish and game. I had the fish special and Tommy had the tournedos of beef - sorry, no pictures!

Tommy was feeling pretty under the weather on Sunday, so we skiied just long enough to make it to the top of the mountain for a group photo. I did head out on my own for one run - just to be able to say that I'd skiied a black run on the trip! Here are some photos we took. Poor Austin hurt his ankle earlier in the day and couldn't make it up there.

We had Mexican food on our last night in Copper Mountain, as well. Unfortuately, Tommy wasn't feeling up to going, but I'm sure I ate enough for both of us.

After a 4 hour delay on the flight home that included circling LaGuardia for a few hours and flying to Hartford to refuel, we finally made it home. Busy season is upon me once again - wish me luck!

Happy New Year!

OK, so I know I'm a little behind on my blogging. It isn't quite February yet, so I'm not a month late yet. I would like to say that I'll be better about updating the blog, but with busy season upon me, I'm not so sure I'll have either the time, or the interesting material to write about, but I'll try.

Our New Year's celebration was quiet this year. We briefly considered heading in to New York City to celebrate with the millions of other crazy people at Times Square, but when the snow started to fall on New Year's Eve and we read that it would feel like almost zero degrees (farenheit!) when the ball dropped, we decided to catch it on TV instead. A wise choice, I think.

The snow fell pretty much all day long. Here's a photo looking out of our house early in the day:

I think Tommy has decided that he kind of likes to shovel snow - and he's getting to be an expert! He even shovels our neighbor's part of the driveway, what a nice guy!

We did manage to make it to the grocery store and cooked a yummy New Year's Eve meal. Traditional Swiss cheese fondue with bread and apples, French Onion Soup, Spinach Egg and Bacon salad, champagne (of course) and a delicious Bananas Foster for dessert. I think every dish in the kitchen was dirty, but it was worth it!

We even managed to stay up until midnight and ring in the new year watching all of the very cold people in Times Square in our very warm living room. Who can tell what other adventures 2009 have in store for us, but I'm excited to find out!