We'd talked, Jen and I, about taking a snow holiday for awhile now, with the kiddos. Take them into the mountains to ski, snowboard, and generally frolic in the cold. Ruidoso, maybe Breckenridge. One place we hadn't considered was Utah. it wasn't until someone else suggested it that we started looking into places. Park City was, in hindsight, an obvious choice. Olympic Village, two huge (now one enormous) ski park, and tons of other things to do (tubing, zip lines, dog sledding, etc. etc.). Also, it is significantly less expensive than most Colorado destinations.
So, here we are. At the time of this writing, I'm in our condo at the Lift Lodge Resort, just off the slopes. I rather missed the boat on writing the lead - in for this trip. This is a crazy time of year at the best of times, much less with kids coming home from Uni, a holiday masquerade ball to prepare for, crunch time at the office... it completely slipped my mind to write up the preface for this trip ahead of time.
But better late than never, right? We've no set schedule for this trip, really, just a list of activities that we'd like to do. So far it's been a bit rough; the flight was very early, folks didn't get a lot of rest, and Gareth is not feeling well. I hope he's just feeling a bit airlock and fatigue from the day and that a good night's sleep will see him back to normal. It didn't help that our rooms weren't ready yet when we arrived (not really the resorts fault as we were early) and that getting seated for lunch took a very long time. We were all ready for a nap once we got back.
After that, Jen, Elena and I explored Park City for a bit while Gareth continued resting, and eventually found a place for dinner. This was after being rebuffed at several places by hour-long wait times; tourism is clearly booming here this holiday season.
Finally, after hiking back up the mountain to our rooms, we've settled in for the night. Park City is a very pretty place, and there is ample snow on the ground (though none has yet fallen in our presence) to supply the winter magic we were hoping for.
Next, E, G, and I will hopefully be doing some skiing!
