More Skiing

The view from the top of Brundage Mountain is beautiful in every direction. 
These are Dave's new Rossignol bindings.  Thank you Grandma Koehlinger & Mom & Dad!
Skiing the Lakeview Bowl at Brundage yesterday.  I try to get more pics of Dave, but he's not much for that, so it'll just be pictures of me for this week.  We've been skiing 3 times a week, and even made one of those a trip to Tamarack.  We've also been hitting the gym 5 times a week, so all is good.  In other news, we re-amortized our lot loan.  It's almost like refinancing, but you have to put a lot of money down, and they don't adjust the rate.  This last pic is in our parking lot.  I think it's funny.  They plow the snow into a huge pile, but it looks like this year they don't have enough money to pay to haul the snow away.  So it keeps getting taller, and trickier for the snow plowers to work with.

Skiing

Check out my frosty hair.  We look like a great pair of bandits!
It's been a stormy week, with everything from rain to hail, but the skiing has been fun!  We went on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday to Brundage Mountain, which is just 20 minutes from our place.  Monday was the best powder skiing I've ever experienced, mostly due to the powder ski's I was on.  It's a pair that some really rich friends gave me last spring.  It feels like floating, or like the ski's are taking me on a trip and I just have to stand and enjoy.
These are my new boots.  Aren't they gorgeous?  From Christmas monies from Mom & Dad (thank you!) and Grandma Koehlinger (thank you!).  They're my first real pair, as the ones I was using all these years are Dave's from a secondhand store in Colorado.  They fit perfectly and are as comfortable as snow boots, and they're actually made in Hungary so they were meant to be:)
Dave strapping in and getting ready to go.  He looks great in the powder!

This was the lack of visibility today.  It was fun, albeit scary when you couldn't really see what run we were on.  We'll be taking some runs this weekend at Tamarack at work, and it should be great with sunshine in the forecast.

The Holidays

We worked through the holidays as usual, and still have a few days to go before a welcomed day off.  But we found time to relish the joys of the season.  We had our first Christmas dinner together this year (in the years before I was always working at Morels and Dave was printing pictures).  On the menu was a vegetarian shephard's pie, stuffing and mashed potatoes, accompanied with champagne (Thanks Mom & Dad!)

We loved all our gifts, Thank you very much!!!  Everything was thoughtful and wonderful.
We rang in the New Year in our usual Idaho style: working until 11:55pm and then running to the Seven Devils Pub for the countdown (with the name tag and work shirts still on).  This year we made it 30 seconds before midnight, hugged our friends and were off to sleep.  

Everything looks pretty here blanketed by snow.  We're planning to ski at Brundage on our days off, and of course to sleep and eat like rock stars.  Happy New Years everyone!  Love you!!!