Bend

Sun River - Mt. Bachelor

After hearing my husband talk about how much he wanted to go to Mt. Bachelor for a ski weekend - for MONTHS - I finally said just do it already and he did.

Planning something like this makes me nervous because despite my best laid plans I cannot plan the weather!

And weather is KEY when planning a ski weekend!

We did this two years ago and it RAINED the entire time and there was ZERO skiing on our ski weekend...

But Sun River is a fun place to go regardless of the activity so we planned and hoped.

The weekend before the entire region was experiencing an inversion - which resulted in significant snow loss and significant depression to me trapped in a freezing fog bank in Meadowglade...

So it turns out we planned it perfectly because this weekend there was lots and lots of fresh fluffy snow for us to ski , or "shred the pow" as my husband loved saying just to aggravate our super cool boarder boys...

Needless to say the weekend was....

The boys were happy...

They play together really well when snowboarding is involved and it makes this momma so happy to see her boys bonding over something they share equal love for.  They are very different kiddos but when it comes to snowboarding and soccer they are united in their passion...

There were only moments of sun...I still have yet to ski off the top of Mt. Bachelor (my second time skiing there) The top was fogged in so the lift was closed.  But the cool thing about this mountain is that it is so big that there is plenty to do...

We skied until our legs burned and then we skied some more...

Then we went in and drank hot chocolate and then we skied some more...

 I absolutely loved that after finishing on the mountain we only had a 30 min drive back to our house! It was fantastic to get back in time so enjoy some of Sun River's beauty - we caught a beautiful sunset on Saturday...Of course the other side of that is that we didn't have to get up super early to make it to the mountain when the lifts opened...

I have come to the conclusion that in addition to my lake house...I also need a ski house and of course my beach house...

Is that too much to ask for?
I think not! :)

And Jeff and I found some adorable coyotes...I begged them to come closer I had visions of getting amazing shots where you could see the reflection of my camera in their eyes...but they just wouldn't cooperate!

After two days of skiing it was time to head home....

After a very snowy trip over Mt. Hood we entered back into the rainy side of the state...

Sigh...

I told Jeff we might need to consider retiring in Bend...

Man I'm getting old!

On another note...

I know I have been a terrible blogger and I don't know that anyone will read this...

But life is MUCH improved and I'm about to leave on an adventure and I "plan" to blog every day while I'm gone...

So if your interested stay tuned...

Frychik