Slopes One More Time

Thursday, December 24th, 2015

Today we awoke to some slightly sore muscles, but not too bad.

In the middle of the night we had a freak accident occur. Mambo and Tango, the cats, sleep with us. Most of the time, they stay by our feet, or Mambo will sleep up close to my chest. Well, at some point, Mambo left the bed, and Tango moved up to where Mambo usually sleeps. When Mambo decided to return, an altercation ensued and I got scratched in the face below my eye and on my nose by a toenail of a fleeing Tango (I think). It was quite the fluke, I don't blame poor Tango. He got spooked/attacked and fled, I just happened to be in the way.

My lovely scratches

This morning we started researching the upcoming weather, and realized that a very severe winter storm was headed our way, as well as into the Texas panhandle, which is our path home. It's looking like this area may get 10 or more inches of snow on Saturday, and maybe more Sunday. Our friends in Pagosa Springs, where we are headed to see on Saturday, are supposed to get 4-8" today, and 4-8" Friday. Texas will see Blizzard conditions and up to 6" of snow, starting Sunday and into Monday.

That said, we either needed to stick it out here, or head out tomorrow to beat this mess. We did some research and decided it would be smarter to head to Amarillo in the morning.

So, we decided we better get another day of skiing in, even if we were not fully rested from yesterday. We also had to refill a propane tank already!! So Tony headed out to do that, but before he left, he discovered a low tire on the truck. He also got that taken care of while he was out. It began to snow while he was gone. It was pretty, large flakes coming down fast. It only lasted about 15 minutes, but it was pretty.

When he returned, we ate lunch and loaded our ski stuff and headed to the slopes. By then, the sun was out and the roads were clear, even though it was still in the 20s.

We had a good time skiing today, but our muscles were yelping much of the time. We skied 6.5 miles.

Chile Express Lift not too busy!

Us riding the lift

After the wind picked up, clouds rolled in, and more snow!

After skiing, we went over to do some quick last-minute shopping. Tony went into the grocery store, while I ordered a pizza to go from Angel Fired Pizza, and while waiting, went into a ski shop. We gathered our purchases and headed home, as it continued to snow. We enjoyed our Christmas Eve Pizza and Beer. LOL! We watched some holiday shows on TV, and Tony went to bed early. We were pretty wiped out today.

After dinner, I worked to catch up the blog. We had hoped to see the torchlight parade go down Exibition run from the RV Park, but it was snowing too much to see anything. Oh well.

Tomorrow, we'll see what the weather is doing, but more than likely we will hit the road to Amarillo.

Merry Christmas Everyone!