Don and I spent the weekend with Kirsten & Bella at Snowbird. Kirsten has this unexplained "little kid phobia" which we are trying to help her break. She looks at them with a bit of horror and tries not to get too close. We started her out slow (sitting together in the back seat) and wore her down little by little. I knew we were making progress when she actually starting singing the Backyardigans songs with us. This was under protest at first but Don is nothing if not persistent, he won by threatening to play the song over and over until she at least sang the chorus.It was beautiful weather so we started with a short walk up the mountain where we got to see some deer along the side of a trail, then on our way back we saw some fishermen catch a fish. To her delight they let Bell reel the thing in. We got our fill of wildlife at dinner when as we were eating a Moose walked right by the window.
We joined the night owls for swimming by moonlight that night and were truly exhausted by the time we got back to the room. All except for Bell who was running around saying "This is my new house!". Saturday was spent enjoying the Oktoberfest fun. Don and I had our FILL of Beer and Brats (...edit to the original posting for Rich) and the kids got their faces/arms painted, they played on all of the games and then we took a ride up the tram. We had such a great time we have decided to do this every year.
