Paulette

We played golf at Le Geant in Tremblant with Jean & Helene.  The weather cooperated and we had showers for just a brief time.

I had a couple of good holes and putted amazingly well.  I was “Mrs. Two Putt”.

Some days the putting works, some days the irons work and some days the driver works.   One of these days I’ll string a few of those together.

Al, Doreen, Christopher and Alex came to stay with us at Tremblant for well basically just over 24 hours.  They arrived on Saturday and left Sunday night.

The boys went skiing with Dave.  Al, Doreen and I chatted and watched a movie “Kundun”.

They brought along The Canadian Trivia Board game.  I’m not that good at trivia.  I used to know a lot of things but I’ve don’t remember most of it now.

In particular History and Geography are bad for me.  I never liked learning about the wars so I memorized it long enough to write a test and then erased it.  Geography just wasn’t interesting for me.

One of the questions we got was “On which peninsula is the Bruce Trail located?”   I immediately went into “I don’t do Geography” mode.  Doreen gave me a look that said “Don’t leave me alone with this”.   She finally says “ummm Bruce peninsula?”.  I think for a few seconds and say “Yeah I can’t think of anything better.  That’s our answer.  Bruce peninsula”.

The guys are killing themselves because yes it is Bruce peninsula.  How easy can the question get?  Yet there I am saying I don’t know before I even think it over.

I still don’t like History or Geography.

We went snowshoeing with Jean & Helene.  The winds were so strong we decided to head into the bush instead of battling it on the ski hills.

We have 2 pairs of old-school snowshoes and 2 pair of new ones.  Guess who got the new ones?

We were going along nicely until all of a sudden… I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!

She just wanted to rest a minute that’s all.  She popped back up as if nothing happened.

The boys just watched from afar.  Is that a deer on the ground?

We followed the trail and didn’t get lost this time.  Sorry Carla!

We turned back and went home uphill the whole way along the path.  It was quite a workout.

A nice fun snowshoe day with dear old friends.

Snow friends are good friends!

Carla & Paul and their 2 children Kristen & Thomas joined us at Tremblant for the weekend. We were lucky to have good weather and snow conditions for outdoor activities.

We arrived Friday night to a wonderful dinner prepared for us by Carla. She made an amazing beef stir-fry. Oh yes we had some wine - but not too much.

On Saturday we went skiing. The 4 of them had skied the previous day but seemed full of energy for another day on the slopes.

Carla says I wore her out by skiing too fast. She thinks she owes me now. I think I got even for the cross-country skiing she tortures me with!

Dinner Saturday night was again supplied by Carla. She really spoiled us! We had lasagna, caesar salad, garlic bread. Oh yes we had some wine - but not too much.

We played some board games with the kids. I’m terrible at Scattergories but it is fun. Carla won. She’s one up on me again. We also played Cranium but the boys won over the girls only because the dice rolled in their favour. (Am I a sore loser or what?!).

Sunday morning Carla and I went snowshoeing through the bush. It was untracked snow and I admit I got lost. The trail looked so different with 8 feet of snow on it.

Carla again was leading most of the way. She is amazing! I can barely keep up to her. It was a very pleasant trek through the woods. We took the road back because one of us didn’t want to go back uphill through the bush.

While we were gone, Dave stamped out a couple of runs in the backyard for the kids to toboggan on.

Here’s a run by Thomas:

And one of Kristen’s:

We sure packed a lot of fun into one weekend. The kids were terrific. Carla & Paul feel like old friends already. That’s a good thing.

We are looking forward to doing it again next year.

Our friends Jean & Helene gave us this wall decoration for Christmas.  I think it should be Dave’s motto:  “Let it snow”.

Here’s what the past week has brought us up at Tremblant since the last rain: 34 cm or 13 inches.   The BBQ seems to be what we measure the snowfalls on.

Thank goodness we have a fireplace to warm up to.  Now if they could just figure out how to make it snow in the mountains and not in the city it would all be perfect.