Spring Break -- A Little of This, A Little of That

This has been a week of doing a little bit of a lot of things.

That is partially because the Heavenly Village is small and after you've walked it once, you've pretty much seen it all.

But that's the great part about being a woman, you can never get enough window shopping!

Tuesday while Tony worked, we (me, our son and his girlfriend) headed out for some shopping.  She needed shoes for prom and he wanted (another) t-shirt.  It was a good lesson for our son.  Once he'd found what he wanted, he was done.  But he learned what all men need to know ... when shopping with women bring a book!  We landed at a shop with a huge selection of shoes and stayed there for well over 45 minutes ... and ended up not buying a thing! :)

We finished our shopping with a stop at the local candy shop because neither kid had ever had a carmeled apple ... how is that possible???  The shop had a wonderful selection of plain and special apples, so we chose one with mini M&Ms on it.  They sliced it for us (so much better) and we all shared it.  I'm sure we'll be back to this shop before the week is over!

Tuesday night was dinner at Fire & Ice, the restaurant inside the Marriott Timber Lodge.  It's a Mongolian-grill styled restaurant with a wide selection of veggies, seafood and meats, as well as pasta, rice and tortillas.  The trick to getting your money's worth is to go hungry and not have any salad.  Tony and I did our best, but could only get in two trips to the grill ... but the kids got in three, so we definitely did good.

Wednesday was my day to join the kids for skiing.  I hadn't been on skis since I hurt my knee here last year so was a little apprehensive ... but skiing is just like riding a bike, you never forget how. 

Spring skiing here is very interesting ... you start the day in icy conditions and basically follow the sun around the hill as it warms the snow.  By 2:00p it's very slushy and starts getting slow.  On what turned out to be my last run my skis got tangled up and I ended up going down ... face first!  Today I am sporting a sore face, but am otherwise am just fine.

Last night we got a wonderful dusting of snow, with more predicted for today and tonight.  The winds are up so the gondola is closed, but the resort is running shuttle buses to the California base, so the kids are off to the mountain for their last day of snowboardinmg and Tony and I are going to try to get one more day of snowshoeing in before we have to start packing up.

Tomorrow we're out of here and on our way to San Francisco for two days before heading home.  I hope it doesn't snow too much as we didn't bring our chains!