Girls trip to Breckenridge

An opportunity arose to go to Breckenridge with Miss M's best friend, A, and her mom for a few days.  A's mom had a work conference in Colorado and asked us to join her and enjoy some winter fun.  

The girls were so excited but they are always excited when they are together.  A is an only child and her and Miss M think/pretend/wish they were sisters.

Waiting for our plane to come in to take off for CO.

Once we finally reached the hotel, the girls quickly dumped out their backpacks and started working on their craft projects.

Cyn had to work early Thursday morning so I was responsible for getting two little girls off to ski school. It was cold and snowy but the girls were ready.

I managed to drop them off on time. I felt like my job was done for the day.

And then I remembered I needed to go back to the hotel and clean up the mess that was created the night before when Miss M threw up on me in the middle of the night.  It wasn't exactly the middle of the night. Thankfully it was only around 10:30pm when she threw up in the middle of our bed and we had to then change all the sheets, call the front desk for new ones, take a bath and find new pajamas. I think she had a case of altitude sickness. She doesn't do herself any favors by having a baseline of dehydrated.  I was going to go back to the room and throw away both of our pajamas and her blanket. Then I saw the laundry room was close and decided to not be lazy and wasteful and washed the girl's stuff.

After I completed the laundry I walked around the town of Breckenridge and bought the girls some new stuff.  After we ate lunch it was time to pick the girls up from ski school.

I knew it was important to eat immediately after ski school. They didn't eat much for breakfast and I am sure Miss M didn't eat anything for lunch.  The hotel had indoor/outdoor pools, arcade, putt putt area and more. They needed proper energy to complete all of the things they envisioned doing after ski school.

Miss M powered down the mountain on the first day.  Her teacher gave her a bunch of prizes b/c she bribed her down the hill.  The teacher recognized that Miss M was comfortable on her skis and took her and three other kids to the top of the mountain.  Her teacher then realized that Miss M was really nervous and didn't want to go down the mountain. She put edgie wedgies on her skis which is essentially a brace that screws into the top of each ski to keep them together. With the edgie wedgie kids only have to think about stopping and not worry about all the other stuff going on. The teacher then realized a quarter of the way down that she could ski down without the edgie wedgie and thus the bribes.  She did it and got a pair of sunglasses, a neck warmer and a thing to clip on her coat zipper.  She was all in.  Her teacher was awesome but unfortunately wasn't working the next day.

Similar sass? The picture with the bagel and cereal was taken almost a year to the date from the one on the right.

After dropping the girls off at ski school on day two I decided to get my lazy buns on the mountain. It was an awesome day with the sun shining but it was so cold.  I was looking for the girls and hoping to see them on the mountain. My ski school class was about to wrap up when we went into a yurt and I found my girl.  The yurt is a little hut halfway down the mountain to warm up in.  I walked in and yelled MaddieCat at her and she was confused for a few seconds b/c I was covered from head to toe and she didn't recognize me.

I was so happy.

Doesn't she make an adorable ski bunny.

This is what an afternoon looks like after skiing. PJ's and iPads for everyone.

All good things must come to an end. We were cutting it so close on the way home. Cyn almost missed the plane. It was almost me and the girls flying home together!

Cyn's next trip is San Diego. I better warm Andrew up on the idea of letting us go on another girls' trip before I book the tickets :)