Back Where we Started and Oh, That Sun!

Went up to Snowbird Ski Resort to meet Matt and Isaac.  Isaac is taking ski lessons, so we hung out with Matt while waiting for him.   It was beautiful!   This resort is breathtaking, really.    We took the tram up to the top to just look at the vistas.   I had toyed with maybe skiing, haven't done this for quite a while, but I was tempted--until I got there!   Even the easy runs, the only ones I'd even venture, looked long and difficult.   It was just as nice to explore the place, take up the tram, and soak up the atmosphere.  It was chilly, but oh, the sun!   There is a reason people come to Utah to ski!   The snow is wonderful, and oh, the sun is so intense, and the sky so blue, the mountains so huge!   The parking lots were crammed full of cars, cars were everywhere, on the roads into the place and everywhere.  Yet, the mountains are so huge and there are so many ski runs, that the slopes had no crowds on them.

Matt

We caught up with Isaac when he was done, with his instructor crowing about his progress, and how he's the fastest skier he's taught!   How wonderful to learn how to ski at age 6, and to learn to not be fearful of this sport, as well as learning how to do it well.

We later took Isaac out to dinner at his favorite restaurant, the Old Spaghetti Factory.   It's always crowded, but Rachel later said it's usually crowded with prom night teens or other small groups.  Tonight, it was one huge family after another, all with little kids crying or screaming or running around.  It was like being stuck in a day care prison!   We tried to eat as fast as we could, but this is difficult as Isaac eats even slower than Matt used to as a kid, and believe me, that was mighty slow!

Finally got finished, albeit to a few bribes, and went home to watch some Scooby Doo, then to put him to read.   We still read him stories, but now, he reads to us too.  He loves the Mo Willems "Pigeon" series, and we had ordered him a few new ones, so he read them.  He reads them with the expression they are written with, and we had giggles as he read to me.