New Year's

We took a ski trip to Colorado for New Year's. I'm sure this conjures images of snowy mountain peaks and chic young people shushing down mountainsides with hot toddies in their mittened hands. Unfortunately the place we went was five degrees, with 45-mile an hour winds and snow that blew so hard it never actually had a chance to collect on the ground. Nevertheless, we did have fun. The highlight (for me) was a horse drawn sleigh ride with friends, singing Jingle Bells and talking to the driver (is that what they're called?) about mule teams. We also managed a bit of skiing (Jeff more than me), and once we got into the trees, the snow was deep and powdery. There was a bit of faux ice skating (if we'd had a sail we could have easily sailed across on the wind) and innertubing down a fun sledding hill. It was nice to catch up with my friends, too, though actually I didn't feel like I did much catching up because we were usually busy tracking down children, preventing squabbles, etc. Every family there had a kid under 3.5, so after a certain point in the evening we all had to go tend to our little ones, which put a damper on the partying. Times, they are a-changing. Maybe next year I'll have a child-free cocktail party - but that would involve more entertaining (see below).

Here's a video of the horses pulling the sleigh:


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