skiing in the new year

We rented a small house in Sun River for a couple of nights at the end of December and over New Year's eve.  Owen had been excited all December to get back out skiing, and Ben had been asking to take his first lesson.

We had an unusually warm and dry December and January, and there was limited snow on the mountain and no snow in Sun River.

Richard and Owen skiied the greens both days at Mt. Bachelor, and Owen got his "ski legs" back.  Ben took two days of lessons and throughly enjoyed both days.  It was a little hard to watch the second day, where he was more laying on the snow then skiing, but Ben had a blast and wants to go back.

Owen and Richard made it up to midnight on New Years- Ben tried hard but gave up 20 minutes early.  We drove back to Corvallis on New Years Day and prepped the house for Ben's birthday and back to school.