Here's a photo of the total eclipse of the moon that happened around 12:40am Mountain time. We set the camera up on the porch outside our hotel room, got the girls up and took a ton of photos as the earth's shadow crossed over the surface of the moon. It was pretty awesome, but both Brad and I thought how much more incredible it would have been to have seen it from McDonald Observatory.
So here we are, skiing fools. We’ve really enjoyed Sipapu. Grace has mastered the mountain; Caroline has mastered go, but needs to work on stop; Brad’s buzzing right along and I’m actually doing all right. I’ve made it down the entire mountain, and almost entirely on my feet!
We’ve met some great people here, and the kids instantly fell for Sony and her boyfriend, Chris, from Frisco. Sony works in elementary special ed so she’s a total kid magnet. The kids sometimes refused to ski unless she came too, and her patience has been great. Chris actually took Grace all the way up the lift and back down the mountain (at least 20 minutes!) twice.
Above you have Grace on the chair lift, and below you have Brad and Caroline in the chair in front of us. As we reached the end where you’re supposed to slide off the seat and ski down the hill, I saw Brad JUMP in front of me. Apparently Cariboo’s feet didn’t touch and he went a little too far in trying to help her get off.
Again, the girls & Sony. Cariboo’s wearing Sony’s goggles and almost refused to give them back.
On the way back to the hotel we followed a sign that read “High Road to Taos Scenic Byway.” They really should have revised the signs going in our direction to read “High Road FROM Taos Scenic Byway.” We ended up about 40 minutes from the hotel when we finally got to a real road – that after spending about 45 minutes driving there!
We’re ready for one more day on the slopes. I’ll be taking lots of motion pics (hopefully not from MY motion!) and possibly giving snowboarding a good try.
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