Grand Targhee Trip!!

This last weekend we had a great time on a ski trip to Grand Targhee. My parents are in town and we had a great time heading up the mountain with them and our friends the McGary's for an awesome couple of days of skiing and boarding. Of course getting there was not easy. A couple of days before we left, Harrison got pretty sick with a sore throat and fever! We were starting to wonder whether or not he was going to get to go (the thought of not going was killing him) when he finally started to feel a little better. We were all set to start packing when Greyson started to bark like a seal and we had to get him to the doctor! So, Thursday morning a couple of hours before we were to leave I was in Dr. Hatch's office (my second home) listening to him tell me Greyson had Croup and giving me an RX for steroids. Oh, and he also told us that if he started to gasp for air that we were to take him immediately down the mountain to the hospital in Driggs! (Driggs has a hospital???) What the heck Dr. Hatch?? Anyway, Grey started to improve after one dose of medicine. We got to Targhee on Thursday eveing and settled into our lodge. The kids were so excited that the lodge not only had a room downstairs with 4 bunk beds but that there was also a bed that came out of the wall in the living room! Oh the things that excite kids.
Mike and Harrison spent all day Friday boarding and having a great time, and Claire and I spent Friday in ski lessons. Claire's lessons went great! This was her second year in lessons and it looks like she is really catching on! My lessons went.........not so great. Without going in to detail so I don't embarrass myself, I will just say there were skii's with not enough wax, skii's with too much wax, having to duck after falling off the chairlift and 2 instructors that have to be my friends for life because they know and have seen too much. Friday night was more my speed—we all went tubing! Sooo much fun! We were sad that Carma was not big enough to go down the tubing hill but they were nice enough to let us pull her and Grey around in a tube! She had a blast. I am waiting for Tubing to become an olympic sport, I am pretty sure I would be a medal contender. There was also some outdoor swimming and hot tubbing and movies at night. There was more skiing and boarding on Saturday afternoon and everyone was home safe but sore by Saturday evening. In all (Brett's humiliation aside) we had a great time with each other.



Harrison made countless runs over the two days, and even mastered "the box" in the terrain park. (He's even got a huge bruise to prove it.)




It was Claire's second time taking skiing lessons, and she absolutely loved it. (Almost as much as she loved her new hat!) After a full-day lesson, she was carving the bunny hill like nobody's business!


Tired of being cooped up in the Lodge, Greyson threw on his winter garb and headed out onto the room's patio where he protected the Diet Dr. Pepper from birds and a pine martin or two.


Just because the lifts are closed doesn't mean the fun has to stop. The big kids went night tubing down the big tubing hill. The not-so-big kids enjoyed a more tame ride, being pulled around by mom and dad.