Monthly Archives: February 2018

Enjoying every day here in the mountains and mixing up our activities between the rec center, pool, library and skiing.  Cindy continues her long days of hanging out with us the first half of the day and then working the evening shift at the Living Room restaurant on Peak 8.

Once the prime season with spring break comes to a close, then we’ll likely venture out in more activities such as snowmobiling, dog sledding, etc.  Plus our ski passes allow us to check out some other mountains like Vail and Keystone.

We quickly learned that our 10-year old gear was worn out, so we’ve been replacing gloves, socks, pants, base layers and goggles since we arrived and utilizing Cindy’s employee perks for local shopping discounts.

Cindy and I continue to be amazed at how quickly Charlie is learning to ski.  He’s been figuring it out all on his own and working lately on his turns to avoid any obstacles.  Trying to slow down doesn’t seem to be on his list yet.

Completely enjoying ourselves in the mountains!  Cindy started her job last week and has been working hard but making good money.  Most days her schedule has worked out well to spend the first half of the day skiing or hanging out with Chris and Charlie then heading off to work for the evening shift.

Started watching the Olympics this week and Charlie has really been into watching all the sports, which is fun since he gets to experience the skiing and watching other folks at the terrain parks here on the mountain.  The only sport we haven’t found here yet is curling, which Charlie seems to enjoy watching while falling asleep at night (relaxing kinda like golf?)

Charlie quickly graduated from the bunny slope and escalator last week to 5 laps on the chairlift and green runs today!

Beautiful, sunny day on the mountain

Visting mommy at her work, which is a restaurant named “The Living Room” on Peak 8

A kid’s favorite hangout named “Downstairs at Eric’s” has good pizza and arcade games galore.

Charlie’s first wintertime chairlift and loved counting the chair numbers

Enjoying ourselves each day in the mountains!  Received quite a bit of snow the last couple days, which has been a welcome sight.  We’ve spent our recent days sledding, ski shopping, exploring the local library, Cindy’s job on-boarding (including our complimentary ski passes as a perk) and hitting the slopes for our first day shredding the mountain.  Meeting a bunch of friendly people around town with a number of local kids in Charlie’s age range.  Looking forward to exploring some other local hangouts like the Rec Center later this week.

Heated indoor/outdoor pool in our building is a fantastic amenity.

Charlie’s ski package for a season rental

Trying out all of Charlie’s gear for day 1

Storytime at the library will be a weekly destination

Groundhog arts and crafts

Cindy’s shredding gear. Found some sweet deals at a local shop for used demo skis.

Day 2 for Charlie was further up to the beginner hill and treadmill. Check out those exquisite french fries!

Everything has gone well on our travel and transition into living in the mountains.  The flight was smooth and arrived early, along with an uneventful drive up from Denver into the mountains.  We decided to rent a car one-way, use it for a couple days, drop it off in Frisco and then utilize the free county and city shuttles to get back to the condo.

Our condo was just as advertised with a location right on the mountain and all the amenities we could need.  Living in a studio has it’s space challenges, but nothing out of the ordinary for us.

We’ve spent the first couple days getting settled into the place, stocking up on groceries and a play day today.  A great start to our winter season in the mountains!

Waking up on day 1 to a mountain sunrise

Stocking up the condo

Winter gear!

300 days of sunshine per year in Colorado

Sledding on day 2

Going strong after 20 runs down and hiking back up just a few blocks from our place

Charlie is really enjoying the mountains