Road Trip Out West - Part 2

We left the Kunkel's house on Sunday, Feb 28th and drove through Wyoming into Colorado. We stopped at our friends Erik and Megan's house in Denver to visit for awhile and then headed into the mountains.

This is what the weather looked like just before we got to the Eisenhower tunnel! The weather was just fine until then. We made it to Copper Mountain an hour later than we thought we would. Audrey slept through the whole ordeal which was really nice for Aaron. The rear wheel drive BMW in front of us was having all sorts of issues!! We finally got around him. After we got through the tunnel the weather was much better.

We got Audrey on her skis all five days we were there. She improved more and more everyday. It was just amazing! What a production it is though. She had quite the entourage everyday and got a lot of attention since she was one of the youngest skiers on the mountain. Copper Mountain has a great area for beginner skiers and it was on the exact opposite end of the mountain from us. They have a great bus system so we took the bus everyday. Audrey thought it was pretty cool that she got to ride a bus everyday too!

This picture was taken in Center Village. They have a great skating rink, lots of restaurants and stores.

Audrey with her babies, Lulu, Snowflake and Stella. She took excellent care of them all week :)

Audrey loved the chairlift!! Here she is with Bitta and Papa.

The weather was awesome for pretty much the entire week and we had beautiful blue skies.

After we skied all day, we'd take Audrey sledding just outside of our condo. We stayed right on the mountain and were within walking distance of a chairlift. We'd hike up a hill a little ways and then slide down.

The Haase Family

And just like that, she didn't want anything to do with the little harness we bought her and she wanted to go "all by myself." She was so proud of herself!!

Still going.... she took a few spills. She even made Papa fall once too. She thought that was hilarious!

Jenna and Will arrived on Wednesday night. We had to take them sledding too!

Our friends Erik and Megan from Denver came out on Thursday to ski with us and have dinner. It's always so wonderful to see them!

Our last day of skiing (Friday). It was the only cold and snowy day we had. Audrey toughed it out for a couple of hours. What a good sport!

Back in Center Village on the ice rink.

Packing up to head back to Minnesota on Saturday. This was the view from our bedroom. Can't beat it!!

We spent Saturday night on Kearney, Nebraska and then drove the rest of the way on Sunday. Once again, Audrey was a great passenger. Now it's back to reality!!