Weekend in McCall

January 9th, 10th and 11th our family went to McCall for the weekend. We spent the weekend at a condo with some friends of ours (The Hansens). On Saturday we went tubing. It was a great place to go with kids because there was a tow rope that the tube got hooked to and it was pulled up the hill. So little kids didn't get tired from having to walk up the hill and we didn't get tired from having to carry them up the hill as well. You got to just sit in your tube and ride to the top of the hill.

Lexi was not a fan of riding in the tube down the hill. So after the first trip down the hill she was done. She just stayed at the bottom keeping Lisa company and played in the snow and she was happy doing that. We wish we had known that Lexi would have been content just watching everybody...would have saved us some money. :)

Surprisingly enough, Alyse was our little dare devil. She is usually afraid of most things and so we weren't sure how she would do at this. While going down the hill she looked terrified but the minute her tube got to the bottom she wanted to go again. We had a two hour limit to tube and she is the only kid that wanted to go to the very end. All of the other kids wore out with about 15 minutes left except for Alyse. We had to drag her off of the hill in order to leave.

Jenessa and Trevor spent the majority of their time with their friends Sarah and Amber. They were like energizer bunnies and kept running to the tow rope and flying down the hill just to repeat it again. I think they lapped us parents and little kids a couple of times. They were trying all kinds of fun ways to tube down the hill. They were racing each other, going on their backs, on their stomachs, going down while spinning, etc.

Sunday morning we woke up to our van buried under a bunch of snow. Ryan was very nice to go out and try to find our car.

January 2009