More Steam

Best Restaurant we went to... Saketumi!

And the Babes were great too.  

Aaron and Chase went off with Palmer one morning and experienced some extreme Black Action.  

This is the view of the run at the bottom of our condo.

Slopeside, where we spent many lunches and happy hours.

Top of the Gondola.

The two story tall icicle growing from one of the condos.

Upon a return from meeting the girls at the bottom of the slope, this is what I returned too.  What fun boys have when they are together!! (notice about 100 stickers on Raughley's tummy.)

Rendevous

It was fun to take the little people outside for a minute or two.  

R has yet to experience 14 degree weather, but he did okay!

While on top of the mountain, we would frequent this bar called Rendezvous.

It was at the top of one of our favorite runs, Tomahawk.

A great place to take a break and get a little liquid courage before attempting a hard run.

We even made friends with the bartender, Jonathan, who invited us to his other place of work, Bella's wine bar.  We went there one night for a change of pace, and really enjoyed it.  

Shopping Day!

On day three in Steamboat Ella, Emily, Raughley and I headed downtown for some shopping!

We had to make a quick pic stop first!

Ella loved to tease R by taking his passy out.

Passy's are soooo 2010!

He's not too happy about it is he?

Downtown was really cool and quaint, with shops and restaurants and a really old soda fountain shop!

It was imperative we get an ice cream.

Favorite. Pic. Ever

The major find was this great hat!

Ella got one too, aren't they so cute together!

Steamboat Continued

The vacay continues with the first dressing in the ski clothes.  Of course on day one we wore too much.  Talk about Roasting!

After one run down the slopes we were sweating already.  Our guide, Palmer led the way.  Thank goodness he took us on day one, because I would not have had the courage to go down those blues with out the pressure of someone unknown waiting on me at the bottom of the hill.  

The views from the gondola were breathtaking, you could see the whole valley.  

 From the gondola you ski down to the smaller chair lifts and head up into higher territory.  

 I can't believe my fear of heights never really kicked in- could I be outgrowing it?

 The gondola definitely gives you some time for sight seeing and picking out dream houses from above.  

 This one in particular straight in front is under construction, but worth only a meager 3 million.  

 After a long first day it was nice to be back in the condo relaxing.

Raughley though it really wasn't fair that we all got to have fun but him, so he wanted to give skiing a try as well.  

But it turns out snuggling with mommy and girlfriend is much more fun.

As night fell, we attempted a walk down to slopeside grill, but ended up being picked up by the shuttle.  The walk would have been three and a half miles long!

Thankfully the shuttle came by.  

A beautiful day in Colorado complete, we crashed around 8 for a long winter's nap.