Saturday, January 1, 2011

My holiday vacation

Good grief!!! It has been six months since I posted here. How the time has flown by.
To any regular readers, my apology for the delay.

This holiday season was spent with our daughter and grandchildren. They are quite grown now. Granddaughter is in her sophomore year in university and gransdon is ready to graduate high school. Before Christmas, we drove to Telluride. We spent a week skiing and snowboarding there. The photos I am posting are from that time. I took a few. My grandson and his friends took the rest.



The skiing was the best I ever had. It had been almost 25 years since I had skied. It took a few days to get my feet under me. I took some lessons.

Vlad took this photo of me as we wondered which of the peaks at the top of the lift was the most photographed.

After a great week in Telluride, we drove south to Los Alamos on Christmas day. My voice remained in Colorado and is, I suppose, walking home. By the time we reached daughter's home, it was well and truly gone and my cold had come to stay a while.




Daughter and one of grandson's friends trying out skis. Daughter taught skiing on the hill at Pacific, MO while she was in college. Most of the kids had only been on snowboards.





Snowboarding seems to be about aerial stunts, going very fast while barely maintaining control






jumping









and sitting down.

Telluride is a beautiful valley town, surrounded by mountains. The sky is magnificent.

Some of the snow melted, then refroze on the aspens and pines in the area. There are more photos in my file. They will be posted, perhaps, in a later blog.
For now, gentle readers, Happy New Year. May the coming year be filled with all good things for you.