Focht Family Blog

Yesterday we hit the slopes at Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe. I had a hard time finding lessons for the kids that wasn’t a day care. I now understand why people leave their kids in ski school for the day. We signed the kids up for the mid-day session and Nathan and I made 3-4 runs down the slopes before Samantha had to be picked up. Because Samantha didn’t have any other kids in her age and ability group she had a one hour private lesson instead of the two hour session. I was very proud of myself. Although we only did beginner slopes I made it down without falling each time. When we first arrived we took the kids to the ski school and got all of their equipment. Unfortunately we didn’t know they were going to require eye-wear so my mom had to make a run to the gift shop to get sunglasses for all.

The ski school staff helped them with everything including getting their ski bibs on around the boots. Here is Timmy and Josh and Samantha as they were starting their lessons.

After the kid’s lessons were done we had lunch and then went back to the kiddie slope. It was the strangest thing I have ever seen. It has a conveyor belt that you stand on that takes you to the top instead of a lift or tow rope…

Here is Nathan helping Josh down the slope…

It was the first time Nathan had skied backward. However, Josh made a run later backward himself. I think he actually did better going backward then forward because he tries to do his wedge the wrong way. :) Nathan got more practice later when he took Samantha down the beginner slope. He said she would get scared and fall so he ended up skiing backward down the hill with her holding on to him. Here is Timmy, Samantha, and Josh while they were on the kiddie slope.

The last few runs down the kiddie slope I figured out a good way to help Josh that was a lot of fun for both of us. I crossed my poles in front of him and put my skis on the outside of his skis and we went down as fast as the small slope would allow. I meant to have my mom get a picture but she was helping Timmy get to the lodge to take off his skis and boots because the slopes were closing. Oh well… another day without me in the pictures. We had a lot of fun so we have decided we may have to look for more slopes on our travels. :)