Skiing for the First Time

For the last 9 days we've been in Ohio trying our hand at skiing. Ohio isn't a very popular place for skiing, but we also wanted to visit with Shawn & Brandy Hanson and go to the Creation Museum outside Cincinnatti. Everything went great. The ski resort we went to wasn't huge like the ones in Colorado, but definitely big enough for us first time skiers.  Zach & I did pretty good for our first time on skiis, but the kids did great. Kids are so good at adapting to whatever is going on around them, even if it's standing on skiis and going down snow covered hills. By the 3rd day Allison & Justus could have advanced to the next level, but some of us older ones weren't ready for that:) Meagan is the only one of us who tried snowboarding, and by the last day we were there she was starting to get the hang of it. Snowboarding is suppose to be quite a bit harder than skiing so we were all quite impressed on how well she was doing. Nina amazed me at how well she did, she only fell a few times in the 2 days that she went. We all liked it so much that we're already planning to try skiing in New Mexico next year. We also went snow tubing, and we were all able to do that, even Summer and Gretch. You rode a carpet thing up to the top of this very tall hill and at the top there were 5 tubing lanes. You could go down by yourself or in a train of people. We figured out if you went in a train, where we all held on to each others feet you would go down the hill really, really fast, especially when Shawn was sitting in front. Tubing was sooo much fun. We'll definitely try to find a place to snow tube in New Mexico. I'll try to post some pix of tubing soon. I posted 12 pictures so you will probably have to go to archives to see them all. I hope all of you are doing well. Love ya'll and Happy New Year!!

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