Home Ownership & Adventures

It's almost official. We'll have to send out change of address forms soon. Between arranging the details of the home purchase and finding new daycare for our kiddos, we've been off the blogging train. But we have been taking pictures.

We also got fed up with the lack of snow here and went to America for some winter-esque fun. Anthony Lakes to be precise. The trip gave us the added benefit of MVP Goldness with Alaska Air. The main benefit of that is we get extra miles every trip we take, we don't have to pay those annoying bag fees, and we occasionally get put up in first class if there's an empty seat. And we don't have to pay change fees.

We rented a ranch house for the weekend near Baker City, and met friends with toddlers or soon to be toddlers for some kid friendly ski hill fun. The house was rip roaring with activity each morning by 6:30 AM. Perfect training for the upcoming switch to daylight savings time. Grammy-cita and Gramps D came over from Boise, which is just two hours away.

We flew to Walla Walla, which is a pretty cool town. The downtown reminded me of Missoula. It's a college town. We were a bit worried about the snow at first. It was 60 and the sun was blaring! We drove quite a while before we finally found some snow.

Our worries were unfounded as we found a healthy base of lovely snow up at Anthony Lakes, which is at 7100 feet elevation.

As it turns out, as soon as we left, Kodiak got pounded with snow and has been getting dumped on since. So we returned to a winter wonder! Cold fun snow all around! Just in time for long days so we can play after work.

Mosh Pit action. As it turns out, kids love AC/DC!