Colorado

We just got back from Colorado.  We had a wonderful time.  Here's what we did each day.

December 20
We woke up at 2:45am and left the house at 3:15am.  We had a 5:30am flight to Denver.

After arriving in Denver around 7am, we had breakfast at a diner near the airport.  Then, we drove the 3+ hours to Steamboat Springs.  The drive was very pretty with snow and mountains.

We arrived at our condo and waited for the Edwards (Chad, Susie, Josh, and Karenna) family to join us.   Then, we all went to the mountain take care of ski rentals.

For dinner, we ate downtown.

December 21
We took the free shuttle bus and arrived to the mountain around 9am.  The kids, Chad, and Susie took ski lessons all day.  Morry skied on his own and met him for lunch.   Everyone had a good time.

For dinner, we at an an Italian place downtown.  We were seated at the bar and were able to watch them make pizza and other dishes.

December 22
Everyone skied.   We stopped for lunch and then kept skiing.  We finished the day on a blue (intermediate) slope.

For dinner, the kids ate in the condo while the adults went out to eat dinner on our own.  We had a nice time.

December 23
The Edwards left for California and we made the drive to Denver.

We met Marchin and his girlfriend Tara for dinner at Phoenician Grill.   It was very good Mediterranean food.  At the end of dinner, the belly dancer pulled Evan up to dance with her.  He was a good sport.

From there, we got a tour of Denver.  We went to Marchin's video studio and then we drove and walked around downtown Denver.  We ice skated at a free rink outdoors.  It only cost $2 for skate rental.

December 24
We went to Washington Park in the morning.  We were looking for a park near our hotel and ended up there.  It was a very pretty park with a pond and bike/walking trail.

At 1pm we went to Gila's place.  We hung out with them during the afternoon.  We planned to go to a beer garden for lunch but it was closed.  We ended up eating at Einstein's Bagels because it was one of the only options open.

Gila has a daughter, Alma, who is 10 years old.  The kids played very well together.

Gila and her husband have a chocolate company, Dar Chocolates.  They showed us how they make the bean-to-bar chocolate and then we got to sample some chocolates too.  They were all very good.

At night, we went to a Hanukkah party at one of Gila's friend's house.  We had a nice time.    We stayed at the house until around 11pm.

December 25
We flew back home.  Everything worked out well.

When we got in, Morry and I walked to Grandma and Papa's house to pick up Lizzy.  Aunt Diane and Uncle Jay were there, so we spent some time hanging out there.

For dinner the kids wanted to go to Buffet Palace.  It was open and very busy.

After dinner, we stopped by Grandma and Papa's to pick up Lizzy's food bag and light Hanukkah candles.

Now the boys are getting ready for bed.

Here are some pictures:

Skiing, Dallas, Sickness

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

We got back yesterday in the afternoon after nearly 10 days away.  It was a good trip but now Noah and Rachel are sick.

We started out driving to Angel Fire, NM.  We left Friday morning, the 19th, at 5am.  It took about 13 hours to get there including stops.  Lizzy came with us.  The boys loved seeing snow on the ground.  Lizzy was also really excited for the cold weather and the snow.  The boys took snowboarding lessons on Saturday while Rachel and I skiied.  It was a great program as the rentals and lunch were included.  Apparently there was all kinds of equipment problems and it was the instructor's first class so the boys didn't get much snowboarding in.  The switched to skiing for the second day of lessons.  By the end of the lessons, the boys were able to ride on the lift with us and come down a green trail (which I must admit was a pretty aggressive green trail).  The next day we did a half-day pass.  Rachel opted out that day.  The boys and I took the super long ski lift to the top and then took a trail that took us about 40 - 60 minutes to get down the mountain.  It was a good experience for the boys.  Noah was very hesitant at the beginning but was flying at the end and ended up beating Evan and me.  Evan did well the whole way.

When we finished skiing it has begun to snow hard.  There was a courtyard from our room where Lizzy could run around and the boys could play.  Lizzy was rolling in the snow, chasing snowballs, while the boys had a snowball fight with some other kids and they build a snowman.  All three of them had a great time.

The ride to Dallas was very interesting.  We had to deal with snowy mountain roads, long stretches in the middle of nowhere with no place to stop, high winds, crazy tumbleweed, dust storms, and more snow on the way.  It was crazy.

I started to feel very sick on the drive, aches and congestion.  I ended up with a fever and stayed in best much of Wednesday, Thursday and into Friday.  Evan started to not feel well on Wednesday and Thursday and had his worst days on Friday and Saturday.  From there, Grandma came down with the sickness on Saturday on her birthday.  Rachel got sick on Sunday and Noah got sick today.

It's a good thing the boys are off all week.  Now we can recuperate.

Until next time...