Loveland Ski Area – Colorado

The kids checked off another bucket list item……. Snowboarding….. for the first time in beautiful Loveland Ski Resort outside Denver Colorado

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It had been 17 years since I last got on a board in Alaska so I was rusty but managed to not make too much of a fool of myself.

We all took lessons, the adults for 1/2 a day and the kids for the full day. It included all the equipment rentals, ski lift passes and lunch for the kids. It was fairly economical to do it this way for our whole family and I would recommend doing  lessons especially for first timers.

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Mommy and Mini Me.

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Ronan loved it.

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Ella was a pro

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Kian’s class never went on the ski lift for some reason so we convinced him to try it before we left the slopes, he reluctantly agreed and did amazing.

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Leif enjoyed his day on the slopes and will hopefully be experiencing so more snowy days in Washington.

Stump House – Washington

 

 

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I had a wonderful morning hike exploring a little piece of the PNW. We hiked to the Stump House  in  Guillemont Cove near Seabeck WA . It is a Hobbit House built from the Stump of a tree, hence its name!

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The boardwalk leads the way…

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Such a mystical eeriness along our hike 

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We stopped by Chico Salmon Park and found some salmon ‘running’ upstream to spawn. I hadn’t seen this phenomenon since Alaska, it is pretty cool watching them work so hard.

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