We took the opportunity spring break presented to take a nice little trip to Vail with some family friends. We had 3 families of four plus my cousin who came along to provide child-minding services and my sister who came along because she’s a bit crazy.
We went up late on Thursday and skied Friday as a big group, Saturday as just the adults and Sunday again as a big group. Out of the six kids along, 4 can ski pretty darn well and we had them all over the mountain. Greens, blues, even a couple of blacks. They are getting good and are such troopers.
Of course after a long day of skiing, they generally looked like this. But then we could go back, lounge, have dinner and good conversation.
Everyone was great about picking up slack, sharing, tidying up and all the other stuff you want in travel companions. My cousin was awesome to watch them and give us some good breaks. It was lovely and relaxing.
So naturally we came home to crazy and stressful. We left mid-day on Monday and after a brief stop at our rental house, went back to our old house to do final pack-up. The movers arrived at 8am yesterday and worked until almost 7pm including stops at our storage unit and our rental house. We now have dressers, actual beds for the kids, a patio set (our only dining table) and a small subset of Matt’s woodshop.
After the movers left, we headed back over to our old ‘hood. After a crazy day and officially downsizing to 800sf, we really needed to see progress on our new house … and it’s looking great! Then we went to have dinner in our favorite neighborhood spot and pick up the tools we needed to assemble the kids beds so they’d have somewhere to sleep! We brought home two sleeping kids and put them in our bed and then stayed up until late getting their bunkbeds assembled.
Productive, busy yet fun!