First Skiing of the Season

We went skiing yesterday.  It was a bad day.  It started with A throwing up repeatedly in the car.  45 minutes into the 2 hour drive, I suggested turning back.  No, husband wanted to press on.  She'd be better now that she got it "out of her system."  Maybe she was just carsick.

Continuing the drive, it got very windy.  The car was blasted from the side and blown about, just great for the queasy one in the back seat.  Can we turn around?
No, we must go on.  Ahead, a tree was down across the road.  Had we not stopped to clean up the vomit and change A into the spare clothes I'd brought, we could have been crushed under that tree.  A policeman directed us around the tree.  On we went.

At the ski area, we found ourselves among 100,000 other people with the same idea for New Year's Day.  Wasn't anyone sleeping off their hangover?  How come they all came, too?  Husband and Little K slipped off into the crowd and up a lift, while I tried to get poor A to the lodge.  I snapped the photos above of her as we stopped to rest several times on the long hike from the parking lot to the lodge.

Here comes Little K, zipping down the hill.  I took this photo right away, before the slopes got so crowded that it was nearly impossible to get a shot of her without 100 other people in it.  A saw the fun that Little K was having and she demanded to do a run, despite having eaten nothing and having just thrown up again.  So, here she went:

We had her borrow K's parka with the lift ticket, because we didn't want to buy a lift ticket ($33.00) for her to do just a single beginner run if that was all she was up for.
While my husband went back out with Little K, I camped out with A in the lodge, giving her sips of water, and holding a cup for her to throw up in.  I really wanted to leave.  This was not fun.  But someone wanted to get his money's worth ($58.00) out of his lift ticket.  It was 4:00 before we left.  Everyone else decided to leave at that time, too.  Unfortunately this meant that the drive home took HOURS.  We sat for miles and miles in bumper-to-bumper traffic, going nowhere, inhaling exhaust from the idling SUVs and trucks all around us.  We seemed to be the only ones who turned our engine off while stopped for 15 minutes at a time.

It was easy for me to make this New Years' resolution:  I will NEVER go skiing on New Years' Day EVER AGAIN! 

Comments

[ginger atkinson]

HI,
I love your pics in the snow. We are wishing for some here in NC.
I was wondering what kind of camera and lense(es) you shoot with, as well as flash for indoor.

Thanks and happy photographing!

Ginger

[Joyce Gotsch]

I too was wondering what kind of camera etc...you are using. Your pictures are great -- I'm sure a great deal of it has to do with your ability to take "interesting" pictures -- You're doing a terrific job documenting your children's lives--I applaud you! They will cherish all your hard work when they are older. I found your page by accident looking for photo organization tips on Google. Unfortunately--I'm one of the ones w/shoe boxes full of pictures. Our 3 boys are all grown, married some w/children etc.... what seems to be a daunting task ahead of me -- but I find a great deal of instpiration in looking at your site and some great suggestions. Thanks -- better get busy --- I'm determined to at least stay current w/the grandbabies! BUT -- would like to know about the camera as I am looking at getting a new one soon. Thanks!