Serious Fun

Greetings....
Yes, we had some....serious fun while skiing last week at the Canaan Valley Resort in Davis, West Virginia.....
Charlie and I and Melissa and Kurt, Pammy and Brett skied three full days.
It was...work.
We had plenty of base snow but it was icy in spots and slushy in others. There was never a time that we could simply ’ride our boards’...we always had to be ’on duty’ since the conditions of the snow changed from moment to moment. It certainly was not for the fainthearted. The second day it rained and we still skied. There were only about 20 people on the mountain and six of them were we Floridians......By gosh, we went there to ski....and ski we did!
See our pictures on Link #1.
The last day we spent in our Lodge rooms watching the beginning of the war on TV....with our heart in our throat.
Being military in our family we knew the cost of what we were seeing....as only the beginning. Needless to say, we were praying. And still are, daily.
Later in the afternoon, Melissa and I took our annual trip to the Amish area about 30 miles away. Going to the Bakery was one of our usual highlights of the trip. Buying homemade breads, desserts, cheeses, jams, jellies and organic seasoning herbs etc. proved a delightful finish to a wonderful mountain top experience.
All in all....it was hard to come down to earth and return home to the reality of.... dirty clothes and.....traffic.
Sunday afternoon all of the family that lives around us came over and we ordered pizza, looked at pictures and all talked at once....as usual....about what all had happened in the previous week.
Yes...it is good to go....and it is good to come....home.
Mostly it is wonderful to have......someone that cares.....to come home to!
Thank God for family that loves us.....good, bad or ugly!