Thursday, January 21, 2021

Recent Random Happenings

After Christmas comes the real test:  a winter of staying at home during Covid.  

Here are Finn and Cora getting creative.  We got some balloons in a gift bag from our church.  Finn had me make a sword and Cora had me make some sort of a crown.  Then they put together something called:  "Snazzletag" (I know I got the name wrong), but it basically involved decorations in their room, chili, and something else to eat.


Cora pulled out another tooth.  What an animal!


...so of course, we had to make it into a thing with a black-eye included.


So for a while, we had something called "Old Timey Movie Night".  On Sunday night the kids got to watch a movie, but it had to be something I chose...  -something old-timey like Swiss Family Robinson or Mary Poppins.  Well, we've watched almost every old movie I can think of and started watching movies I had absolutely no interest in watching.  Here is Davie Crockett...


The kids started noticing that I was putting on a movie and then skipping out on the actual watching of the movie.  Once they got wise to my plan, I had to start watching the movies I was choosing.  -So old-timey movie night came to an abrupt halt.  Last Sunday we started "Sunday Night's Excellent Escapades"... which was a working title until Lisa changed it to "Sunday Night Cinema".  Here we are watching our first movie:  Jurrasic Park.  The kids really liked it, but Cora was a bit scared, mostly because the kids kept asking her if she was scared or not.  I don't think she was ever that scared.


Sledding is one of the only things we can do out of the house.  So there is lots of sledding.  Here we are at a local hill that was billed as "steep", and the best hill around.

It was lame.


This is a hill that is about a mile from our house.  Really great and perfect for the kids.




Cora, the most social kid I've ever met, has taken to ice skating recently, mostly because her two friends that live just down the street both ice skate.  She loves it.  Here she is skating with Corina, but her other friend's family are all hockey players and go frequently as a family.  Last time they just gave her a pair of skates, and of course, she was thrilled.  :)

























 

The first ski of 2021.

Well, it's been a little while since I've updated this...  so let's throw up some stuff from our (somewhat recent) ski trip.

We went to Wild Mountain, which has a really good deal for families with kids that homeschool.  I think it's $40 a person, which includes a lift ticket and ski rental.  So $160 for a day of skiing is REALLY good!  We went on Wednesday the 6th and showed up at 10am for skiing.  It was closed.  Turns out they open at 1pm.  So we had some time to kill.  Instead of driving an hour home and an hour back, we decided to stay in the area, find a Redbox and a McDonalds, and have breakfast and a movie.  Here is us watching a movie and waiting for the ski hill to open.


(I wanted to upload some videos, but it's taking a while, so I'm not going to bother.)

Finally, we got in and went to get our rentals.




The bunny hill was closed at first, so our first run was up on the lift.  








Due to covid, they didn't exactly encourage sitting inside to warm up.  But we found a spot.  



I was kind of pumped that we could go night skiing.  I went night skiing for most of my childhood.  I think there is something special about it, or at least to me.  We skied until 6pm - a great day of skiing!