White Pass, WA

President's Day we took Sam and Jack to ski at White Pass.  We left Yakima sun shining, singing of spring, and soon found White Pass engulfed in a blizzard.  Since we learned our lesson the hard way with the van's snow skills the week before - we opted for our snow vehicle - the Jetta!  You know it's bad when your all-terrain, all weather vehicle is a VW Jetta, but it got us safely there and back.  The boys were excited to show me their skiing skills since this was their 2nd trip to White Pass.  They both did great.  

Jack of course had a crazy unbalanced fall/crash every few minutes when we first put his skis on, but soon got a hang of of.  Sam is an old pro and pizza pied his way down the hill.  It was really busy, so we decided to introduce the boys to the chair lift to make the most of our runs.  It made them a little nervous being so high off the ground.  

The biggest downside of the day was that neither Shawn or I had goggles and it was blowing sleet like little needles in our eyes the whole way down the hill.  At one point I was skiing down the hill with my eyes closed praying that I wouldn't run into a tree or another skier!  Thankfully Jack got cold and convinced me to go into the lodge and get a hot chocolate! (Darn!)  

It was a really fun day, and great to spend time with the boys we don't usually get.  On the way back - Jack was exhausted from all of his fall over and skiing in between Shawn's legs that he wiped out.  But not without a fight!  I kept looking back at him and he would try to pry his eyes open and smile at me laughing at him.  Finally sleep won and he embraced the darkness!