Friday, January 27th - Sunday January 29th.
Earlier this week, we decided that since the snow was pretty good at Ski Apache in Ruidoso, NM, and my birthday was this weekend, we'd make a quick weekend to go skiing one more time this season (since our Angel Fire trip was so limited on the slopes.).
We probably could have taken the Mammoth, but we needed to get there fast and get back fast, and we don't tow faster than 65mph. So even leaving Friday afternoon, we would get there very late, and have to leave early Sunday. We decided to (gasp) stay in a hotel instead. Initially we were going to take the cats also go, so we shopped for a "pet friendly" hotel. We landed on the La Quinta, in Ruidoso Downs. All of the La Quintas have been updated, and many have a free full breakfast included. We have a rewards card with them, since there is one in Eastland and we try to let our family use it when they come to visit.
We decided mid-week to go ahead and leave the cats at home after all. We would really only be gone 56 hours. So we purchased some larger water and food bowls, and I set up one of our cameras to focus on their feeding area.
We have a security system that works well to alert us to anything, including power outages, temperature, and even water leaks. We decided to go ahead and unhook our hose from the rig while we were gone. Temps were possibly going to be freezing while we were away, so we didn't want there to be any possibility of a frozen water hose -- We wouldn't leave the water on, anyway, being gone that long.
We headed out Friday afternoon, and got to the hotel about 7:30pm. We had no issues on the way.
The next morning, my birthday, Tony got us breakfast and brought it back to the room, then we got ready and headed out to ski. We had a great time on the mountain, except for lunch. The place we planned to eat up on the mountain could not get their grill going, so we had to ski to the base and eat. Tony stood in line nearly an hour to get food! Tony also ran into some other Cisco teachers while we were there! Small world!
We also checked on the cats via the cams all day and they just did their typical routine: eat, sleep here, sleeps there, run around a bit, sleep somewhere else.
Driving to the ski resort
Snow plowed snow up the guardrail -- I mean guard-cable!
Slopes of snow!
Ski Apache -- the fire damage is still evident on the slopes. They have cleared some of the torched trees.
Us at the top of the gondola lift.
Enjoying the slopes
Pic from the Ruidoso tower-cam from mid-town Ruidoso, the day we were there.
After lunch we enjoyed one more run, then headed back. We decided to stop for dinner at our favorite Mexican place, Casa Blanca. We had Quesadillas, and they were terrific! We then headed back to the hotel, and crashed pretty early.
Sunday, we got up and got to work packing our stuff back up for the trip home. We left about 10:30 Texas time, and got back about 5:30pm. It was a whirlwind trip, but a whole lotta fun!!
The kitties were glad to see us, and did not tear up anything we could find, so I think it was successful. :)
Happy Birthday, to me!
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