Our Snow Day

Katie has been bugging us about going to the snow for about 2 years. Every year we've said the same thing..."Elisha's too little". Well, Elisha isn't so little anymore. So since there was no cast on the boy (thank the Lord that's over with) we went to North Star in Tahoe.

It was beautiful. There was a few feet of snow. The sun was shinning. It was great. So off we go looking for a place to play that wouldn't put us right in the line of the snowboarders when I look at Katie and see tears on her cheeks. She was sick. She wanted to stop and lay down and possibly vomit. So much for Katie's fun in the snow day. We took her to the fire pit and had her sit for a while thinking she's just cold and needs to rest some.

Meanwhile, Elisha sees the kids ski school and begins to yell "I do that". I took him up to some deep "playing" snow and he saw snowboarders to which he yells "I do that, Mama. Diego snowboard. I snowboard". (In case you don't know "Go Diego" from Nickelodeon is Elisha's favorite show right now). But I just finished with a cast on my 2 year old, I was not about to go for a 3rd break in 18 months. Too bad buddy, you'll have to wait.

Katie thought she was better and went for a walk with Rick. But after about 5 minutes she had full tears down her cheeks; she really was sick. We went to the car, gave her Dramamine and she slept the whole ride back to Mango and Papo's (my parents) house.

Thus ended our adventure to the snow. We learned a few things though. Katie HATES to be cold! Elisha wants to snowboard. I think it would be fun to try skiing or snowboarding. Rick wants to do the Telemark and snowshoeing thing (it's an Indiana Jones meats national treasure meets weekend warrior thing). So in about 2 years we will attempt it again!