We had a great weekend. We weren't traveling this weekend, the first weekend we have stayed home in nearly a month. We love to see family, but everywhere we go from up here is at least a 3 hour drive so a weekend at home was certainly relaxing.
We had visitors this weekend, our friends from Rochester, Aaron and Emily Peter. Aaron and I were college roommates and he works for the government and Emily is part of the Mayo family. Both love their jobs and we are glad they are back in MN after a 2 year stint in Little Rock, Arkansas. They have both been to Giants Ridge before. We skiied all day Saturday with only a break to watch the Gopher BB team lose to Michigan. Friday night we ate at the Lodge and then Aaron and I kicked the girls in Catch Phrase. They did beat us in Pictionary but anyone who knows me knows that I am terrible at that game. Pretty hard to be good at Pictionary when you can't draw, and I'm not even exaggerating. You should see my animals, it makes for great laughing at Jason whenever an animal comes up.
The weather was absolutely beautiful. Warm and sunny. We did lose quite a bit of snow with the warm weather of Thursday and Friday, probably lost 12 inches at least, leaving us 2 feet left. Now, I am seeing 8-15 inches forecast starting tonight through Tuesday night so maybe we'll recoup some lost snow.
Well, thanks to the Peters for visiting and we hope to see your new home in Rochester sometime soon.
On Sunday, the Peters went home around 11:00 a.m. after a great breakfast prepared by Nicole and Emily. Nicole and I decided to take a walk and watch a ski race called a Super G. You see them on TV all the time where you ski around those flags. This was neat to watch, and it was not because of the skin tight outfits. They really go fast, but as we learned skiing on Saturday it was icy on the hills after the "big thaw" Thurs/Friday then it froze back up on Saturday. So these guys would come flying down the hill and then stop hard at the bottom before going into the trees. Well, they wore all the snow down to the ice and many of them slid once they tried to stop. It was dangerous as heck but made for some good entertainment. We watched them for about an hour and then the race was over we decided to grab our skis and try it out. It was a great day to be outside in Northern MN.
We are glad our friends Jeb and Kaylan made it back safely from their trip to Aruba. We talked with each of them yesterday and it sounds like they had a great time. Can't wait to see the pictures, hopefully Jeb has his shirt on in some of them.
Have a good week everyone!
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