Bogus

Rob has more energy than anyone I know. The last few weeks he has literally worked from morning 'til night (9 a.m. - 12 a.m.) every single day with hardly any breaks at all. Besides building the Baker stage (and installing it last week), he has also built several cases with Melissa and managed to do all of this with a broken toe and a toothache. After working until after midnight on Saturday, he had to get up at 6:30 a.m. on Sunday in order to be at Bogus Basin at 8:00 a.m. for a concert set-up. When I arrived on the mountain around noon, he and Dale had everything set up and ready to go and he still had energy to spare. I think it helps that he absolutely loves what he does. He thinks building stages and running sound is fun. Somehow these things energize him rather than tire him out. Not me, I get tired just watching him work!!

The event was for Bogus Basin's end-of-season party and it was a perfect day for it. The temperature was close to 80 degrees so people were in shorts and t-shirts (even a few bikinis!) and everyone seemed to be having a great time.

The kid's brought their ski and snowboard gear and spent the afternoon on the slopes. In this picture, Zach is in the red coat and Gloria is in the turquoise shirt right in the middle:

The snow was pretty sticky so it wasn't the best for snowboarding.

Even after Zach grew bored with it and sat down, Gloria continued to go up the lift by herself and even made a few new friends.

Even though her cold seems to be worse, not better, she's a lot like her dad when it comes to her energy level:

There was a costume contest in the middle of the afternoon and many people were dressed quite amusingly:

I can't post a picture of the guy who won because I have a G-rated site.

I left the mountain when the concert was over in order to make it to my committee meeting so I missed the tear-down. Drat. Rob and I both arrived home at about the same time in the evening and he still had enough energy to prune the cherry tree in the backyard:

When he and Zach finished the tree, he STILL had enough energy to learn Settlers. We played until 1 a.m. and he almost beat us!

I don't know how he does it . . .

Gloria and Megan Go Skiing!

Kristin took the girls skiing Sunday after church. It sounds like they all had a great time! (These are K's photos- I'm sure the pics straight out of her camera are beautiful but they didn't transfer very well to my computer!):

Going Home

This week just flew by. It was a lovely working vacation and now it's time to go. I'm not looking forward to going home to floors covered with dog hair and mud (from all the melting snow) but reality must be faced. I've enjoyed this little piece of heaven while it lasted:

Getting everything back down the mountain and loaded into the truck was a huge chore. We didn't have the help that we were told we would have and the people we rounded up to help weren't really thrilled with the job but we finally got it done. This cat made 4 round trips from the superpipe to the truck:

Gloria practiced her skiing while we worked. She would ski down the hill closest to the truck and wait for Rob to bring her back up on the snowmobile.

Rob would take the snowmobile to the top of the hill, put a load in the snow cat and then ride back down to the truck to wait for the cat so they could unload it and do it again. He rescued a little girl while he was waiting and it wasn't Gloria. We heard desperate screams that caught the attention of everyone in the area but we couldn't tell where they were coming from. Rob jumped on the snowmobile and headed over to the slope where they were coming from. He found a little girl, about 4 years old, stuck in a snow bank. Turns out she had gotten seperated from her class and had gone over a steeper edge and plowed into the soft powder. Her coach came along shortly after Rob pulled her out, setting her back on her skiis and giving her a little shove in the right direction. She seemed to recover but I felt so sorry for her.

We finally left the resort at about 3:00 and made the uneventful trip home. It was quite a week.

Just Another Day In Paradise

Saturday's Snowboard Event