President's Weekend Getaway

This weekend, we traveled up to my dad’s cabin in upstate NY. Dad and Patricia, my brother Pete, his wife Heather, his daughter Hailey, Patricia’s daughter’s Kim and Sheryl and their husbands Mike and Dave all joined us. It was quite a full house, and it was a blast.


The Adirondacks got 37 inches of snow last week, so it truly was a winter wonderland up there. Saturday, we hung out at the house, and went snowmobiling.

Hailey was the star of the weekend. Being the only child, everywhere she turned she had admirers…which she loved. She was adorable out in the snow. My Dad turned a snow mound into a slide for her and sat her at the top. She would slide down laughing and at the bottom she’d say “more, more”. He pulled her in a sled on a path around the house and she sat there like a little princess. He dug a tunnel through one of the snow mounds and helped her crawl through.


Sunday, we drove 2 hours north to Whiteface Mountain and went snowboarding. Initially, the conditions seemed like they would be typical icy disappointing East coast boarding. Steep, icy, crowded. After lunch however, we took some of the local’s advice and went to the summit and rode the first black diamond. It was mostly untouched powder, a little steep and full of moguls, but really fun. So, we rode that, and I had my first real experience with moguls that was not entirely unsuccessful. Skiers like to ride between the moguls, but I found that if I used the powder on top of the moguls to turn in, it was really quite fun.
Needless to say, by the time we finally made it back to Atlanta Monday night, we were exhausted! I told Charles when we’re old we’ll take vacations where you sit on your butt and come home feeling refreshed, but for now, we take adventure vacations that you feel like you have to get home from to recover.