Big Mountain Skiing

Today we finally got to go skiing for the first time this season. With the lack of snow the first part of winter, followed by the sub-zero temperatures when we finally did get snow, then all of the Christmas stuff going on, and John being sick, we hadn't been able to get out to ski until today. We were afraid it was going to be really foggy, and it was at the base, but as we rode the lift up it just got clearer and clearer and it was bright and sunny at the summit. You could look out and see the mountains sticking up out of the fog below. It was beautiful.

Its 2009 Already?

The last 2 months just flew by. I can't believe Christmas is over and its already the middle of January. It does seem that the first week of school after Christmas lasted forever though!

We had a really good Christmas this year. We had school until noon on December 23rd, so we couldn't leave until the 24th. We were supposed to leave Missoula at 2 pm but the flight was delayed and we didn't leave until 7 pm. That meant we were stuck in the Missoula airport (a friend had dropped us off at 2- we thought the flight was only delayed 2 hours) for 5 hours. If you've ever been to the Missoula airport, you know its not a great place to be stuck. After trying to decide if we wanted to get a cab and go to eat somewhere in town, we decided we would just wait at the airport and eat at the restaurant there. The sign said it would be open until 6, so around 5:15 we went down and it was closed early for Christmas Eve! We got into Minneapolis around 11, went to a hotel, and left for the airport again the next morning to finally make it to Indianapolis. Then on our return flight, we got to Minneapolis on time, only to find out our flight to Missoula had been cancelled! We ended up flying to Kalispell, which is a longer drive back to the ranch, but still got us home earlier than if we had waited for the next flight to Missoula. We were glad to be home finally.

While we were in Indiana, we got to spend time with both of our families. We drove all over the place but it was worth it to get to see everyone. We went out for dinner with our friends Lynsey and Derek on New year's Eve, and then drove up to my sister's in Greencastle. We ended up being in the car driving back to my parent's house at midnight, but we both decided we must be getting old because we didn't really care about not seeing the ball drop. I guess we haven't done that for awhile though because since we've lived here we've been at the church's party on New Year's Eve and we don't watch it there either.

We got a new camera for Christmas from my parents. We are pretty excited about it and can't wait to get out and get some great pictures. We've already taken quite a few, we just haven't had anything really exciting to take pictures of. We planned to go skiing this weekend, but John had a cold so we decided to wait until next weekend to go.