Skiing at Crystal Mountain

We took a few days of our Christmas vacation and went skiing up north to Crystal Mountain. Our family loves skiing there and we thought Lia was big enough to enjoy it as well. We arrived on Sunday evening and did the night skiing and we are so happy we did. The weather was great (not too windy or cold) and the bunny hill wasn't very busy at all. We started out on the bunny hill and went down that about 5 times. Lia was doing so well and she loved it so much that we moved on to the chairlift. The first chairlift was only for 2 people so Charlie took Lia with him. She looked so small sitting next to him and I was a little nervous about her falling off, but Charlie held her tight and she sat nice and still. We did about 6 runs with her that night. Every couple runs we would go in the lodge and rest a bit. Since we had Lia between us and squatting down to teach her to ski - we would get tired very quickly with her (not to mention it has been 2 years since we skied ourselves). It was a perfect night and a great experience for Lia's first time on the slopes.

Our plan was to ski again all day Monday with Lia, but realizing how tired we got Sunday night we decided to let her ski in the morning with us and then we scheduled her for the nursery for the afternoon. We were so glad we did that because the wind picked up on Monday and the slopes were very busy. After 2 runs down the hills, Lia was done. We took her in the lodge and took turns staying with her until her afternoon nursery time. She kept saying she wanted to ski more, but we discouraged it and she seemed fine with it. We didn't want her to get to cold or tired so she wouldn't like it anymore. At this point she has great memories of skiing. She went to the nursery just fine. There were about 10 kids in there and lots of toys and play houses and slides. The rest of us then went back out skiing despite the wind and cold. After we were done skiing for the day, we returned to our hotel and went swimming the rest of the night. It was a nice little break from all the hustle and bustle of Holidays.

Hope your holiday break was just as fun!
Colleen