Best laid plans...

I'm back from my week of "vacation" from blogging
I hope you're back too!

Jeff's at a 3rd interview with the same place so keep prayin!

A year ago some great friends invited us to spend a long weekend with them at Sun River.
Part of the plan was to ski Bachelor for 3 days...

We had never skied Bachelor...
We were thrilled and quickly packed up our ski gear and headed over Mt. Hood
to the land of Bend and all it offers...

We had fun...
We had snow...

We played hard and came home tired...

So, when the phone rang this year with the same request we knew exactly what fun awaited us!

Except we didn't count on the weather...
You have heard me whine a time or two about our lack of snow...
While we seem to miss out on any snow fall down at my house...
the mountains have enjoyed a healthy amount and the skiing has been great...

Until last weekend,  El Nina was at her finest and POURED rain on the entire state!
We were supposed to be on the "dry" side...
we were in the "rain shadow"...

We were supposed to be in the land of powdered snow...

As we pulled in Friday night we could see that indeed there had been snow...
lots of snow...
Where there was a golf green it was a beautiful white canvas...
It looked as if they had a couple of feet of snow...

But then the rain began Fri night
And it poured all day Sat...
And it poured all day Sunday... (which was to be day one of skiing)

Instead of gaining snow they were losing inches due to the rain and warm temps...

Fortunately, we were with friends...
Funny, warm, entertaining friends...

We played lots of games...
Great Dalmoodi
Up and Down the River
Farkle
Rooke

Ate lots of food...
Went shopping...
hot tubing...
swimming...
basketball...
rock climbing...

And in spite of the rain we had fun!

Sat night, after a day of pouring rain, the evening gave way to warm temps, sparkling stars and gusting winds.  We settled into the hot tub for good conversation...


What we did not do during our three day ski vacation was ski....

Oh well, that's the way the cookie crumbles some times....

Frychik