Author: Rick

Let me apologize that I have not updated my blog in almost a month now!! I guess real life seems to take a precedence over blogging. I will have to try to get better.

Ok, lots of updates.. Lets start with the early stuff and work forwards.. Brandon and Aiden both had a lovely Easter. We had a neighborhood Easter egg hunt that had them running around a park finding hidden plastic eggs. Neither boy really likes candy but they still had fun finding the eggs.

We also hosted Danith’s family for an Easter brunch. Unfortunately her mother was ill and was unable to attend. But otherwise her sister Megan and her father enjoyed the meal and the boys of course.

Brandon got a new bike shortly after Easter and has been dying to ride it. Of course right after he got it we received another 6 inches of snow. 🙂 He got it out a few times and even though it is a bit big for him now he still can pedal it well enough. Aiden also got a little bike/trike thing. He enjoys riding that inside but can not get the hang of pedaling as of yet.

The past few weeks have been either spitting rain or snow, but I managed to get a nice (somewhat blurry) picture while driving the other day. So just remember that under every sh..crappy day lays a beautiful rainbow.

The other big news is that Danith and I are going to be putting in a tile back-splash in our kitchen. We were originally going to do this starting the 5th but our tile order did not come in until the 7th. The last few evenings I have been laying out the tile and determining what will need to be cut. The next weekend we are able to work on it won’t be until the 19th but I hope by then it will be an easy matter of just thin set, place tile and repeat.

I have other news but I will do a different post later this week on that!

Rick

[Update 3/18/2008]Hmm it was brought to my attention due to one of my many readers (Must be at least 4 of you now!) that I never finished my Jackson Hole vacation posts. I dug in and saw that a forgot to publish this last story. So the below is weeks old now.[/Update]

Day 4 -Grand Targhee

This day we decided to drive to the far side of the Tetons to Grand Targhee mountains. This is a smaller resort than Jackson Hole but has some great powder skiing available. We arrived a bit after 10am and it was a gorgeous day, clear and sunny. Not much to comment on other than I was feeling better and got in some good powder runs. There are also a natural terrain park that we stopped at and tried to capture some video but failed at it. About 4pm we called it a day and drove back over the Teton Pass home. Here is a link to a picture from the top of the mountain.

Day 5 – Jackson Hole

This was our last day of skiing. No new snow fully groomed trails but hard packed off-piste skiing. I had a great time skiing on the groomed runs today and was in great spirits and did not get tired despite 30-40 minute runs. I wish I felt this good on Day 1 and 2!

The bad part of today was as soon as you got off the groomed trails the snow turned to crap. It was hard, crusty and stopped you dead in your tracks. Falling hurt so I stuck to the groomed runs most of the day. Here is a shot of me close to the top of the mountain.

Back to Mangy Moose for a quick drink or two and back to the hotel.

Day 6 – Flight home

Not much to say other than the flight was uneventful but we got home to a snowstorm. We brought the snow home with us! So the taxi from the airport to Matt’s house took over an hour and then my drive home from there took another hour. Ugg. Home now and recovering. Dang, I need a vacation!! Only two years to the next ski trip.