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This weekend Mark & I travelled to Houston for four days to celebrate Thanksgiving with Mark's best friend Mike, his wife Lindsey and their family. We have started a bit of a Thanksgiving tradition with them, since we moved to the US in 2004. Mark spent the first one with Lindsey's parents Micki & Jerry in Houston. Lindsey's sister Sarah & her husband Paul live in North Carolina and we then spent two great Thanksgivings there, when we lived a few hours away in Virginia. When we moved to Utah last year, they all made the trek to join us for Thanksgiving in our new home, and this year was Mike & Lindsey's turn in Houston. Mike's mother Bruna (who makes a mean lasagne) was there to join us as well. We had a great weekend of eating, talking and playing mind-stretching trivia games. (I swear I get dumber every year!) We also ate out at Chuy's (Mark's favorite TexMex place), visited a contemporaray art museum (strange stuff!), had dinner at an Indian restaurant, and went to see the new movie "Australia" (bit of a disappointment). Thanks everyone for a great weekend and especially to our wonderful hosts Mike & Lindsey.
After some early season snowfall Solitude Mountain Resort opened last Friday, so Mark & I decided to use our Thursday's season pass to "stretch our legs" and see if we remembered how to glide down the white stuff. People have told me it's "like riding a bicycle" but I wasn't convinced that since I hadn't learned to do it when I was 5, that I wouldn't have lost some of the skill I had only so recently learned. We were both pleasantly surprised that we did seem to remember most of the technique (me skiing, Mark snowboarding). Although, I have to say that the fitness level needs a little work. My legs were rather wobbly after 3 hours!
We enjoyed our skiing / snowboarding so much last winter, that this year we have signed up for discount passes at a couple of local resorts. We bought a 5-day "cherry picker" pass to The Canyons, that allows us to use the resort 5 times during the season on any day we choose. The Canyons is a huge resort in Park City with lots of runs so it offers some good variety to our other more "local" resorts. As you can see from the pic I took today the resort has already had some snow (21" so far). In fact we've had some pretty good early season snowfall here. Last year we had no snow on the ground at Thanksgiving. Alta (the highest resort) has had 57.5" with more snow falling today and Snowbird (same canyon as Alta) has already opened. Solitude (30" so far) is due to open on November 14th so we're planning to use our Solitude "custom" season pass (ski every Thursday) to get our first ski day in before Thanksgiving.
This weekend Mark & I travelled to Houston for four days to celebrate Thanksgiving with Mark's best friend Mike, his wife Lindsey and their family. We have started a bit of a Thanksgiving tradition with them, since we moved to the US in 2004. Mark spent the first one with Lindsey's parents Micki & Jerry in Houston. Lindsey's sister Sarah & her husband Paul live in North Carolina and we then spent two great Thanksgivings there, when we lived a few hours away in Virginia. When we moved to Utah last year, they all made the trek to join us for Thanksgiving in our new home, and this year was Mike & Lindsey's turn in Houston. Mike's mother Bruna (who makes a mean lasagne) was there to join us as well. We had a great weekend of eating, talking and playing mind-stretching trivia games. (I swear I get dumber every year!) We also ate out at Chuy's (Mark's favorite TexMex place), visited a contemporaray art museum (strange stuff!), had dinner at an Indian restaurant, and went to see the new movie "Australia" (bit of a disappointment). Thanks everyone for a great weekend and especially to our wonderful hosts Mike & Lindsey.
