Snowtubing

Grammy came up to visit for the weekend since Papa was playing golf all weekend. We decided to take advantage of the kids' half day off and go snow tubing. It was very cold, but there was no one there at the slopes. It was a lot of fun! Grammy was apparently very nervous the first time, but she was quickly pointing out the awesomeness of the fast runs. Last year, Alex was a little scared on the tubes, but this year, he just took off. Even Matthew wanted to go down by himself. Here we have Zack and Matthew going down by themselves in a race.

Dave gets a rare turn by himself.

Grammy was very bundled up. It was quite cold!

Zack had a ball. He had a little trouble on the moving walkway that gets you back up the slope. He can't really stand still for that long, so he kept falling off or dropping his tube. That definitely provided a challenge for us to balance the tubes, Matthew and catch Zack or his tube as we headed up.

Mommy and Alex enjoying a fast run! As the day wore on and the shadows covered the slopes, the runs got a little icy. We were all running into the barriers at the end. It was fun!


Rachel and Matthew early on enjoying the double tubes. We ended up trading these in for all singles because the doubles were harder to manipulate up the mountain.

Afterwards, we headed to IHOP for a yummy birthday dinner!