Escape TO the Snow

While many of you - family and friends - were happy to get a break from all the snow and storms that hit you last week, Dave, Drew and I wanted to go to the snow.  (Note that we go to the snow - we can leave when we're done - unlike you bwahaha.)  So on Friday we drove to Lake Tahoe with our friends - Ms. Stephanie and her family (Drew's old day care provider) and Ms. Jonelle and her family (Drew's current preschool teacher).  Translation: 6 Adults and 5 kids went to Lake Tahoe, sharing a 3 bedroom timeshare.

While you would think that many people in a room would be a little crazy, I have to say I thought it was rather smooth and easy.  Of course it helps that the timeshare is larger than my house, but I digress.

Friday night we got there around 10pm and the kids were wired and ready to play - which they did until probably 1am.  Dave and I finally went to sleep around 3AM and Drew was up at 7.  Lovely.  But he was really excited - we told him on Saturday we were going sledding.

Here's the group as we were trying to get them out the door.

L-R: Drew, Mason, Troy, Zionna, Charlise

L-R: Charlise, Drew, Mason (behind Drew), Troy, Zionna

Finally we made it out there for the last picture together before they all went their merry ways.

 L-R: Drew, Charlise, Zionna, Mason, Troy

And then they were off!  Dave did a few runs with Drew before letting him go on his own.

Here's Ms. Stephanie and Charlise

Here are a couple of videos of the sledding action:





Drew decided at one point he wanted to roll down the hill rather than sled (it was intentional).

After about 30 minutes of sledding, most of the kids were getting tired of sledding (the other two families were also in Tahoe last weekend), so they decided to have a snowball fight and everyone ganged up on Dave.  Ms. Jonelle and I played photographer.

After the snow, we all went back to the room and took naps.  Drew just woke up from his 3 1/2 hour nap when I snapped this shot of all the kids watching TV.

L-R: Charlise, Drew, Mason, Troy (poking his head from behind the table) and Zionna.

It was a great weekend, but man was it exhausting!  I was in bed Sunday night by 7:30pm!