We headed to New Hampshire for our second annual ski weekend with the Munds (Jake's family), the LeWinter-Christs (Meredith and Liam's family) and the Hoffman-Dhars (Lila and Akash's family). We rented the same house and took the kids to the same mountain (Pat's Peak). The main difference was that for our ski weekend last year we had already had an unbelievable amount of snow (over 60 inches in Boston, more in New Hampshire). This year we have had...basically none (I am not complaining! Although poor Henry is desperate to build a snowman...) The weekend before we arrived there was literally no snow on the mountain - only trails with man made snow were open. We lucked out and had our second snow "event" of the year (the first since our infamous Halloween snow) a few days before we left...in Boston we only got about 2 inches that melted in a day, but where we were skiing had about 6 inches that stuck. Not enough to open additional trails (or the play area at the ski resort that we enjoyed so much last year), but enough to give the ground a covering and give the kids something to play with in the backyard.
On Saturday morning we headed to the slopes:
Mike decided to take advantage of a lesson - his first time on skis!
Henry had a lot of fun again, but wasn't as fearless as last year. Considering that the next day he came down with the evil 2 week cold, I am not surprised in retrospect.
After skiing and lunch at the slopes, the kids played outside the house in the snow for a bit:
Then warmed up inside:
Sunday was FREEZING, so we spent the morning hanging out inside (and not taking any pictures, apparently!) It was a fun weekend, and we certainly hope we are able to continue the tradition next year!
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