Saturday, April 23, 2016

Spring skiing

Last weekend Chris's brother Jeff came for a visit! He flew in Friday and we basically picked the kids up from school and headed for the mountains. We stopped for dinner on our way and got to the hotel around 8pm. Saturday morning we headed to Sunshine Village for some skiing. Chris had some ski passes he needed to use so it was a pretty cheap ski weekend! We swam Saturday night at the hotel and then Sunday headed back to Sunshine for one last day of spring skiing for this season.

After skiing, we took the long way home via the Ice Fields Parkway. It took us 7 hours to get home (normally 4 if we take the highway) but we had 3 stops that were at least 30 minutes each. One at Lake Louise, one for a hike overlooking the North Saskatchewan River and one on a dried up lake. In the video below, when you see the GPS putting us right in the middle of the lake, that's where we were driving! We got out and walked down to what was left of the lake. Hopefully we get some rain and it fills back up soon.

We had a great trip! Too many pictures and videos to post, so I made another video. Enjoy if you have 3 minutes to spare:)




5 comments:

Julie said...

I was ready to view your lovely video, but it said it was private. :( I have GOT to take these kids skiing!

Unknown said...

You are an awesome movie producer!

Unknown said...

Thanks for making me cry. Such a great video, sis. I couldn't help but to think of those views compared to the Dubuque ones :)

Unknown said...

Wow!!! So cool! Your kids are incredible, that video had me scared - going down the mountain! And you are right, Tara - the views...whoa. What a fun trip!

ahuinker said...

I hope you're planning on teaching me how to make videos this summer! :) Thanks for sharing - so looking forward to seeing you all this summer!