Brad and I worked on goals a few weeks ago, and one of mine was to write one blog entry at least once a month. So here I go for February!The benefit of having a job that requires me to travel about 40 weeks of the year (I hit 37 travel weeks in 2008) is the reward points and miles that I have earned. Brad was given a week of vacation in January, and since it had been two years since the last time we skied, we really want to go skiing again! So I called Marriott to find out where we could use my 200,000 points, and there was only one hotel in CO with availability for the week we wanted to ski. It had happened to be in Beaver Creek! Sometimes you just have to take what you can get!!!!!
Needless to say we had a blast. It appeared that the downturn in the economy had affected ski resorts as well because the slopes were empty. There is a picture of us during lunch at one of the restaurants on the mountain and amazingly enough, there is not a single other person shown in the picture. With so few skiers, the snow was AMAZING - it snowed almost every night we were there, and we took full advantage to cut fresh tracks in powder up to our ankles. Brad the "mogul maniac" had us going down double-blacks on our first day.
I realized this year how extremely fortunate I was to have gone skiing as a kid because I can keep with Brad, and we have so much fun together. It is incredible to think that I have been skiing for 22 years now! Wow that makes me sound old!
