Ski School

Jack took how 4th lesson today and we really have had a good experience at Eldora and the Mountain Explorer Lessons.

Jack had a 4th different instructor and possibly his favorite so far. He was riding with John, the instructor, and another little boy. A perfect sized group lesson!

Jacks ready to hit the slopes!

I worked in my Eldora office and got some turns in later in the morning.

FRIDAY!

Jack and I had a busy day. I got up early and worked until it was time to go to gymnastics. Jack tumbled for an hour at the North Boulder Rec Center and we headed home. We had some lunch and we headed for Eldora!

His turns are getting better! And he can get up by himself (most of the time). The Mountain Explorer Lessons are paying off. Steamboat here we come!

Holiday? Sort of...

School holiday, and having missed the sign up for Y camp, equals what are we gonna do? I didn't have the day off so I signed Luke up for a snowboard lesson and Jack had another ski lesson. It seems everyone had a good time, Luke learned to ride switch from his favorite snowboard instructor and Jack is making major progress. I see riding blue chairs in Steamboat for spring break, no problem!

That's the post lesson hot chocolate 'toast'.

And me? I got some turns in!

Group Ski Lessons

Turns out a group lesson on a Thursday is much more like a private lesson... Well actually it turns out it was a private lesson since Jack was the only student.

It was cold! And windy! Jack is a trooper! You can tell in the above photo by the lack of exposed skin that it was really cold. How cold?

Thats right. The high was 14 around noon.

Thats why I was happy to spend some quality time in my Eldora office. I did get out of the van to do some skiing but lets say I was not troubled by the call from the project manager to help solve a problem after I dropped Jack off.

We all had a good day, I got my work done, I got some good runs in, and Jack had to be cut off wanting to do one more run when the day was done. That's how it's supposed to work... Always leave them wanting more.

Ski School

When we were skiing at Loveland for Meg's birthday we saw a lot of ski school groups. Jack and I discussed it at length and he decided it would be fun to go to ski school. Friday is Jack's day off from Homestar so I signed him up for a full day lesson.

It was a nice day, a little breezy but a high near 40. That was a relief. I was nervous about the little boy's full day lesson because a full day for us is typically about 2 hours of riding EZ. He really liked his instructor, Ryan, and had a good time with the one other student in his class. They never got off the Sun kid Magic Carpet but he didn't even care. He said he had 5 cups of hot chocolate and chicken nuggets and pizza for lunch. I told Ryan we'd request him next week for a green lesson so Jack can learn to ride a lift without daddy.

I worked for a couple hours in the morning and again for a couple of hours in the afternoon. It was a semi productive work day and I did a dozen runs on my snowboard. I was all set to pay for wireless access for the day but my cell phone doesn't work in the lodge (WTF?). So I worked in the car on the iPad and it was all good. Next time I'll take the van so I can have a more spacious 'office'.

The little boy was tuckered out from his full day of skiing. He had a great time. I was persuaded into buying a 6 pack of lessons... so we'll be there next Friday.