Mountain Life

Escaping to the mountains before the ski areas open is a lovely thing. Vail opened today but Beaver Creek is still looking a bit bare and you can still snag a parking spot at City Market without any trouble. It's a nice time of year to be here. Sunset earlier this week from the front porch...

Mr. Man is using his height to his full advantage in his new digs. He's learned all the seats in the house he can get into/onto on his own. He has no problem getting down from any of them except the bench, it took a few practice tries to get that one down.

Gosh, is he really only 16 months?

Yesterday we bought a 10 trip punch card to the very nice local rec center and went for a swim. Today we drove west to Glenwood Springs (spotting several bald eagles along the way!) and had a soak in the hot springs there. I guess seeing all the lap swimmers both places inspired FFM who came out of my room this evening with my goggles pressed against his eyes. (This is especially interesting as he's only seen me wear them once, months ago, and he doesn't have any of his own yet.)

He thought it was the funniest thing of the evening, even better than my bout of hiccups.