Yesterday it was BEAUTIFUL here. Sunny and 70 degrees and just perfect. So what would be the problem?? Well it just happened to be the day that Sam had picked to take a trip up to Mary's peak to check and see if they had any snow and try out our sled that the girls got for Christmas. (that we haven't been able to use once yet)
I did not want to go -- I didn't want to leave my beautiful sunshine to try to go find snow!! But I took the kids to the park in the morning so we got to enjoy it for about half the day -- so I figured I would have a good attitude and be a good sport. (Although the whole drive up I told Sam he was crazy and there was no way there was gonna be snow up there)
Anyways - we took the drive up and got out of the car -- so excited to be able to look out at the view - if nothing else (and glad to be out of the car, driving up the windy roads). As we parked we could see the valley below and it looked so cool. But I kid you not -- as SOON as we stepped out of the car -- the fog rolled in - and we could see NOTHING!!
And it was FREEZING! FREEZING COLD! We decided to hike up to the top to see if we were able to see anything. The kids were complaining the whole time because it was pretty steep and did I mention it was freezing?!? Jackson kept saying "mommys car!! mommys car!" (because he wanted to go back to the car where it was warm)
But we made it to the top and got our picture (with no view -- just fog).
You would think my mood might have changed from positive to negative -- but no. I actually was loving it. It was a fun little adventure. It made me laugh that everything went wrong. I love it that Sam wants to go out and find fun with us. He is a great daddy and a wonderful husband and I always have fun when he's around (well almost always) ;)
As for the snow -- there really wasn't much -- but there WAS SOME!! So we made the best of it and busted out our sled and sledded down the 6-7 foot strip over and over. We actually decided this was probably perfect because the kids would probably get tired fast if we had to hike back up the whole mountain to take each ride down.
top of the mountain with a great view of the fog (notice how happy Jackson is)................
Me and Addie taking a CrAzY ride down "the patch" :)
Sam getting a little daring (now you see how little snow there actually was)..............................
4 comments:
you guys ARE crazy! well, mostly Sam, but you're married to him, so that makes you crazy by association:) haha... sounds fun tho! wouldn't that be the perfect world though? to drive and hike to visit, see, and play in snow... then drive back to warm, sunny weather, the rest of the year? that is ideal to me...
We tried to go up there to play in the snow about a month ago. You found more snow than we did... and all three of my boys had Jackson's exact expression most of the day. Your story sounded exactly like our Mary's Peak day. Oh well, at least we both tried :)
Hahaha, Jackson's face is cassic and yes, says it all. But seriously, you could have a husband that sits on the couch and watches sports all day, I would take a freezing adventure and memories over that anyday!
LOVE it! Mary's Peak definately needs it's own weather forcast; it's always (and I mean always) freezing up there. Thanks for sharing your wild adventure; it was probably a more memorable day because of all the bumps you encountered.
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