Skiing

Just a little update about our ski trip so far...
Friday afternoon my parents, Aaron and I packed up the van and headed up to Bowling Green where my sister goes to school. We stayed at her apartment for the night and then got up early Saturday morning and drove 2 hours north to my aunt's house. We thought this would be nice so we could take my two cousin's skiing and we could also teach Aaron on the smaller, easier slopes that we knew at Mount Holly because we'd been there before. Aaron did awesome! He picked it up so quickly (like we all figured he would) and was on the normal slopes in no time. It would have been sooner if it wasn't for a little mishap we had when I was teaching him. (I'm sure he'll tell everyone the story to show that I still don't know my left from right) Anyways.... We got up early Sunday morning and drove the few hours (in the freezing rain) to Boyne Mountain where we have a condo for the week. That night we just kind of walked around, checked everything out and got our lift tickets. Monday morning we woke up bright at early to start skiing. These slopes are so different than at Mount Holly. For starters there are waaaay less people (due in part to it being a weekday) and they are bigger with less ice and more powder. It was also much colder (-4 with windchill when we woke up). Aaron was slightly intimidated by the bigger hills, but jumped right in and is doing excellent. He's even gone down a couple black diamonds (the 2nd hardest slope) although it was pretty slow. Today there's even more improvement. We went down some steeper hills today and he is really starting to enjoy them and pick up speed! My dad's convinced that by Thursday no one will be able to tell that he's only been skiing since Saturday! I'll try to remember to take a few pictures when we're out tomorrow. The view from the top of the mountain is beautiful. Plus, Aaron in his snowplow with his all brown carharts is pretty dang cute!:-)