Started off with Dad's song, as we cruised down the highway: (I post this video mostly for my sister's benefit, who, I'm sure, has fond memories of Dad belting out his song every time we come within sight of the mountains! Don't click on the video if you don't want to be subjected to my Dad's singing :) )
The mountains were amazing, as usual.
On the road, we saw a moose and her baby and a family of mountain sheep.
Even though the temperature was only -15C when we started out our skiing, we quickly warmed up as it was a beautiful sunny day, and hardly a cloud in the sky!
Here I am doing a little skiing. How graceful am I, eh?Once we had a little ski, we stopped in the hut and had our lunch. The highlight of the lunch was meeting a little squirrel friend - he looked surprisingly like a rat with a fuzzy tail warmer. I guess I looked like a rat-friendly girl, so the little squirrel decided to come and make my acquaintance up close and personal by jumping on my back! Seems there's never a dull moment with me when there's a rodent in the room.
After lunch, Dad and I drove up the road and found a nice place for some snowshowing! That was great fun, too! I felt like an Arctic explorer, tromping off into the great unknown... except that the going was much easier when we were actually following a trail.
Breaking your own trail in that puffy snow was rather difficult. But it was so much fun to play in the snow and be so surrounded by so much natural beauty! It really makes me feel like I'm surrounded by the beauty of the Creator, which is something I miss so much while I'm in my usual place in Africa.
How blessed am I to get to come home to such a beautiful place!? And how blessed am I to be able to come home each year for this annual snow fun trip?!
5 comments:
Wow! Looks just like my type of fun! A rat with a fuzzy tail warmer, jumping on your back? Cool! I always KNEW you had a way with rodents. Seems our little Templeton was actually attracted to YOU and not to me and my peanut, as we originally thought. YOu have such a special way with rodents, it's really quite touching. "The Rodent Whisperer."
Me, I still like my little insectivores :)
so Beautiful!! Makes me want to go north so bad!! But we had a really awesome thunderstorm today, there's lots to enjoy here too . . .
nice Tanya, enjoyed the videos and the photos...true we have snow here but not like that and I'm missing the mountains and skiing and outdoorsy stuff like that:) Enjoy!
Ha ha ha! Thanks for the mountain song, sister. Now I must link it to my blog...
Opa's mountain song is really funny
Ethan
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