In late June 2014, we took a family vacation. We left from St. Louis and drove west to the promise land. Colorado, that’s my promise land. The beautiful country, the place I would go if I were rich and could move all of our family (immediate and extended) to one place without thinking about the cost involved in such an undertaking.

Our family of four (myself and my wife, plus a 3 year old daughter, and recently turned 1yr old son) visited Denver, friends, family, and then we went further west, to a place 50 miles from the nearest town, at 9500’, deep into Wilderness country.

We went to Trapper’s Lake.

We're sitting at the airport, we should have taken off an hour and a half ago. Our original flight is now scheduled for 6:07. We moved up to a flight scheduled for 4:50, but by the time we walked the 2 miles to the other gate it switched to 5:30. Actually, it switched from 4:50 to 5:30 in the 10 seconds it took me to sit down, take off my jacket and turn around to look at the screen again. It's pretty amazing watching the snowplows here at the airport race down the runway, talk about a lot of snow going everywhere. Natalie has some pictures but they won't get uploaded till we get home as my silly laptop won't read the 4gb card I gave her this week. Hopefully we'll fly back home tonight, though we may not get our bags until tomorrow due to the flight change. Our new flight is a DC-9 rather than a Canadair regional, so hopefully that will help us get out of here. Update: Now the flight is scheduled to depart at...

So today I chose to rest my aching bones by sleeping in while the wife took off with her father. After the bro/sis in laws showed up we headed off to the slopes. They were fortunate enough to get a free lift ticket for today as they flew in today and filled out a form online before they came. Talk about a deal, they got to ski today for $30 (for rentals), while I spent $90 just for a half day pass and my rental. I felt much better today, though it took me a little while to get there. I got a new board and boots today, the whole setup felt weird, I couldn't get my right foot to work right so I took a seat and adjusted the bindings myself. Not really knowing what I was doing I had hoped that turning my right toe more towards the front (I ride regular not goofy) would help. Sure enough it did. Once adjusted the board felt just like yesterday. From there I was more comfortable and running around the slopes. I definitely took some harder falls today than I did yesterday but that can be attributed to the fact that I was pushing harder today than I was yesterday. I'm not sure what the plan is for tomorrow yet, we're getting some much needed snow now. If it lets up we might give it a go again tomorrow, otherwise we might wait until Thursday and spend tomorrow doing some other activities around town. No photos from today, I tried hooking up my new camera from GoProCamera.com today but I wasn't able to get the thing working. If I don't have any luck later this week I might have to return the thing. Hopefully it will work though and I will be able to get some cool action footage (read: me falling a lot) Till the next...

Sore, more pain I'm sure will follow tomorrow! fun day though! Find some photos of the day...