MLK Day

It was nice to have a day off with nothing planned. Ben and the girls tried to go skiing in the morning, but ended up getting turned away because the lot was full. While they were gone, the boys and I used Luke's fort kit to make a puppet theater.

Once Ben and the girls got home, we debated about what we should do in the next few hours before Cat was going out with her friends. We decided go to Tibble Fork for sledding. We didn't have very much time, but we had a lot of fun. It was breathtakingly beautiful, and there was so much snow that you couldn't sled on the fresh powder, because the snow would stop you. We had to just sled where people had already been sledding so the snow was smoothed out. It was also a little crowded - we weren't sure if we'd be able to park - but thank goodness we found a parking spot. Cat tried to get us to walk across the (almost completely frozen) reservoir to the really good sledding on the other side, but after attempting to wade through over a foot of powder and stepping on slushy ice underneath, Ben and I vetoed the idea. (We kept sledding out onto the surface of the reservoir, though, and felt safe about that...)

We got some lunch on the way home, then Cat and her friends actually turned around and went right back to the same place for sledding - trekking across the reservoir for the kind of high-intensity sledding teenagers love.