We decided to go skiing one more time while we were in Utah. This time we decided to go back to Sundance. We all really like the resort. It's a great place for family skiing.
Unfortunately, we picked the wrong day to go skiing. We should have picked up on our first clue while driving up to the resort. We hadn't even entered the canyon when the winds started blowing very fiercely, creating white-out conditions. We decided if it was that bad at the resort we would turn around and go back home. It was nice and shiny when we arrived, so we stayed.
We didn't have time to rent our skis from BYU, so we rented them at Sundance. The only problem a lot of other people had the same idea and the ski rental place is very small. We spent most of our time outside in line and it was freezing. We kept thinking the line would pick up. We were in line for two hours. I can't believe it took that long and I can't believe we waited, but when you are already up there and ready to go you don't want to have to turn back. Since it was so cold and it was taking so long, we decided that if they didn't have the equipment for anyone of us we would just go home. Again, we probably should have left because they didn't have the right size of skis for Tanner, Kaden and Trevor. They told us they could give them shorter skis. They weren't kidding. They got the same size skis that Austin had!
By the time we were all outfitted and ready to go, it was almost lunch. At that point Chad said he felt like going to get our money back and heading home. He asked me what I thought we should do. We were finally ready to ski and we had waited so long, so I said we should stay (whoops, my bad). We did ski, but it was brutally cold. From the top of the mountain to the bottom my fingers were burning because they were so cold and I was not the only one who felt that way. We went on a couple of runs, but when Trevor started crying because his hands were hurting so bad, we stopped for lunch.
We were hoping to warm up in the lodge, but we were disappointed big time. Once we finally found a spot to sit (on the floor in a hallway) we had a hard time warming up. There was a radiator on the wall, but it wasn't working. Chad was ready to call it a day - he was not getting warm, but Kaden, Trevor and Austin still wanted to go back out. So we decided that Chad would stay with the Tanner and Devon while I went back out with the other boys. Kaden and Trevor went by themselves and I took Austin. I figured by the time Austin got down the mountain he would want to go back in the lodge.
Austin and I had a good run. Austin did have a bit of an adventure in one spot. He had to go around a group of girls that were in his way and he ended up going over a big jump. As I watched, I was amazed that he landed the jump, but then he couldn't stop. He ended up falling a bit later. He wasn't too happy about the fall and didn't want to finish skiing down the mountain. We worked it out and he did finish going down the mountain. He didn't enjoy it then, but if you ask him about it now, he would be pretty proud to tell you that he went off a jump and landed it!!
After our run, we found Chad, Tanner and Devon in one of the restaurants drinking hot chocolate. We hung out there until Kaden and Trevor came back and then we headed home.
It took Chad a long time to warm back up that night. Chad and all of the boys sat in the hot tub to warm up. So, all in all, it wasn't the best day of skiing. We did have a little bit of fun. Kaden and Trevor had fun going on their own and they mastered the art of the singles line when the lines were long. We enjoyed being together, but it was a pretty brutal day to go skiing. Lesson learned!!
