Yesterday morning, we woke up, began to franticly pack up bags, winter gear and other stuff, and headed for a ski vacation. it only took 2.5 hours to pack. almost record time.
It rained when we left and then turned into snow, but the road were good, except a foggy part for 20 minutes or so and the kids were behaved as long as they had peppa pig to watch. After almost 3 hours I dropped Alla and Mattan off, they went to sign Mattan in Ski school and Alla rushed to enjoy ski after three slope less years.
That left me, the oper with Tal. We checked in, unpacked the car and now i had the assignment to get little cranky to sleep. yada yada yada.. 3 hours later, now i am cranky and Tal is not sleeping. Well, i took him to an alpine slide. It is about 4 minutes away by car. He was sleeping heavily before we got there. Now i spent another hour of doing mostly nothing.an hour or so later, i was relieved and headed for the pool. Ski school was over by then and we spent 2 hours at the pool. This is an indoor heated pool-, which is linked to an outside heated pool next to a hot tub. Most of the group were at the hot tub, but i was on lifeguard duty as Mattan is for the first time without a floatation device. He swims well, but too early to be left alone. in this time, the kids, Mattan some of his cousin played, and moved from one pool to the other, then we all set up to eat left over Turkish food, before Alla's sister and her family left for home and we stayed the night.
On day 2 of this exciting, action packed vacation. We had decent breakfast, then Mattan went to ski school and i struggled to convince Tal to get dressed to go to the alpine slide again. This time he was awake, all dressed up in his fleece and little whole body snowsuit. It opened at 11 and we were there 10 minutes early, listening to the safety instruction repeatedly from the monitors. They finally opened and then we had to do a height check. Tal was an inch too short. Oh, the look on his face, his little heart was shattered.
I had to use the big guns. Let's go tubing and then ice cream.
Off we went to the tubing hill on the other side of town. this place has 2 hills, big hill for age 7+ and the little hill. guess which one was closed?
Now all i had was ice cream. We drove into town and found a chocolate store that sells ice cream.
Tal for some reason likes Vanilla. I do not understand it. I am a chocolate kind of person, but we each get his own. Half way through his cup, he puts it aside and wants to eat mine. His happened before and yet he still chooses vanilla! He got some of mine plus some green sugared lime slice. Out of all the assortments of chocolates in this fancy store, he chooses the only green one, odd kid.
We headed for lunch, after they busy day we had and got there 30 minutes later due to a series of unfortunate miscommunications, which is totally Alla's fault.
here Mattan after ski school was giggling at everything with Ryel (she is his third cousin or something like that) and Tal was playing hide and seek and laying down next to elevators, under tables and doing a pretty decent hiding job.
Mattan returned to ski school and Alla tried to get Tal to ski, we got as far as putting him in ski boots, he would not go on the skis and i kept doing nothing.
I did not even bring along my ski stuff, after the continued failure to ski. It is seriously boring to come to a ski resort and not ski. The other issue is that there is not much else to do here, especially since Tal is just under 38 inches tall.
Worse of all, this is not a new destination...
Now, Alla is at the pool with Mattan and i sit here with a finally sleeping Tal.
Another exciting staycation day.
Tomorrow we go back, we have a 3-hour window to make a 3 hour drive before the snows hit.
Mary X-mess if you celebrate it and all have a great 2018
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