What a day!

The day started way too early...out the door at 6:45am...and ended with 3 hours and 45 minutes in the car. But in between...a fabulous day at Beaver Creek. Neither of us had been there before. It was fun to explore a new place together since neither of us had been there before. The drive up was easy, no snow on the roads and nearly endless powder on the slopes. I think this was day 8 or 9 for me on the slopes this season and we think it was day 16 or 17 for J.

And the best part of the day...after three seasons...well, 2 and a half perhaps, it seems I have finally figured out how to ride on my heelside...and and and...I can switch back and forth now from heels to toes. And and and...I can go FAST. Well, relatively speaking anyway. And from the skier - J conqured a double black today too! Apparently bumps the size of Volkswagon Beetles.

Beaver Creek was nice, it's a gorgeous resort. I kid you not, there were a few snow flurries falling this morning as we rode the Centennial lift up, and they looked like glitter falling from the sky...the finest, shiniest pieces of silver glitter...and they shimmered on the ground too. We thought it looked like the most magical snow we've ever seen.

So then it was time to go home - with such great snow, we left much later than our usual 2pm on Sunday afternoon. I think we were finally getting the car out of the parking lot closer to 3:30. Oh, and we usually leave Keystone & Breckenridge by 2...Beaver Creek is a good jaunt further west. So we chuckled when the sign in Vail said 45 mintues to the tunnel, 2 hours 20 minutes to west Denver. These signs are really cool, they update contstantly I think there's about 4 or 5 of them between Vail and Denver. So we kind of laughed a little at the next sign when we had driven 20 minutes and the new sign said 2 hrs 15 min to Denver.

It was 7:15 when we finally pulled into the parking lot at my place. And we agreed - it was a fantastic day.