The Snowiest Day

So behind in blogging, but going to try to catch up....so, we go back to the Kinderhotel. 

We woke up on our first ski day to find that it had snowed all night and the power was out at the hotel. We would not be deterred from our plan, however. We ate breakfast, got all the gear, dropped Logan at childcare, and headed to the mountain. 

The ski area was a 20 minute drive away under normal conditions. As we began to drive, we knew these were not normal conditions. See the lump in the picture above? There is a car under all that snow. There was more snow than I have ever seen. The road was mostly okay, but got a bit interesting in places. Halfway to the ski area, our windshield wiper broke because there was so much snow. But, we pressed on. I was questioning our decision, but I did so only in my head. 

We finally made it to the ski area after about an hour. 

We parked in deep snow and you can see the wall of snow that was behind our car. 

We went into the ski shop and got all the skis, boots, etc on....definitely the least fun part of skiing. From there, it was a bit of an uphill hike to the bunny slope. We finally got everyone up there, and then the bunny lifts stopped. The power was out at the ski area as well. We had to laugh - too much snow to ski.

Larry was determined that the kids ski a bit, so he pulled them through the powder up the hill a couple of times. After that, we called it a day and headed an hour back to the hotel. The power ended up being out until 5 pm at the hotel thanks to multiple fallen trees in the area due to the snow. We made the most of our day anyway, and had much better success the next day!