A little Pine Valley respite...so nice.

Saturday I worked on the newsletter and Paul worked around the house. Then we ran errands and ate lunch. We thought we'd take a local hike, but after taking a nap it was pretty late and pretty cold to take the hike we had talked about. Then we remembered that the Stucki's had given us the key to their cabin while they are spring breaking in Mexico. Paul didn't have to teach on Sunday, I didn't have choir practice, the food would be easy since it was going to be fast Sunday, so we decided we would just head up to the cabin, ski some, make a dinner we already had stuff for and attend church up there. I am turning into a last minute Lillywhite person after all these years. I think having only two people to plan for makes it a lot easier to be last minute too...probably that's mostly it. We had a great time. The snow conditions were the best they had ever been. We actually did some real cc skiing with some actual gliding going on. We were able to drive to the parking lot at the lake and then skied up to the Whipple trail head parking lot and then down the summer residence cabin road and then back. It was so pretty, so quiet and so nice to be getting the hang of this ski thing. We had a nice dinner and then snuggled up by the wood stove and watched a good movie and then hit the sack. Today we attended the Pine Valley Branch meetings. It is really a nice, friendly branch and one where the Spirit is much felt. We went for a nice walk after church and then headed back home to make the feast of the fast over. I took some nice pictures and even took a little video of Paul doing the ski thing. We may have to do that again!