We awakened to this view and decided we needed at least two hours to sip coffee and cocoa and enjoy it! (It is Spring Break after all!). Darin coaxed a fire in the fireplace, which as a pyromaniac is his favorite job. After a slow start, we headed to Sunshine Mountain in the sunshine.
The mountain behind us was the coolest formation—it looked like a ship from the game Battleship.
We felt like pros navigating around the mountain today. Heated chair lift, moguls, heated chairlift, moguls, terrain park, terrain park, and REPEAT. The boys have embraced playing outside in the snow after they’ve refueled at break time, and Darin and I enjoy a few minutes of peace and quiet.
We skied a couple more hours, hitting the wall when the boys skied into the trees without us. Jacob fell into a tree well. John, leading the way through a Dilly Dally Alley type of run, reached a point that dropped 20 feet into a canyon or climbed 4 feet into the main trail. After some strong encouraging words that others would have characterized as YELLING, we were all back on the main trail. (This process entailed removing skies, climbing down to get a fallen pole, climbing up and putting skies back on). A redo run was in order. We spotted a terrain park from the lift, which lifted everyone’s spirits😂.
With the ski day behind us, we headed back for a dip in the hot tub and taco dinner at the condo. The grocery stop for taco fixins turned into an unexpected math lesson. Does anyone know how many pounds are in a kilogram? What happened to the U.S. switching to the metric system? Since that never happened, my brain had erased what it had deemed superfluous data, which left me looking like an idiot in the meat aisle. I grabbed what looked and felt like at least a pound of ground beef and am happy to report there was no shortage of taco meat at dinner:-)
The big outing for the night was the not-so-lux Lux movie theater in Banff. Is this where the famed film festival is held? It was like stepping back into the theaters of my youth with stationary seats with upright seat backs and very little padding. What the seats lacked, the movie made up for. We all loved Black Panther. The characters and story were so rich and thought provoking. It was rated PG, but on the scary side. John spent most of the movie on my lap, which only amplified the uncomfortable seats. How did we survive moviegoing before reclining seats??
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