Vanessa's first snow experience

We have been planning to go up to the mountains for the last few weeks but the storm and the birthday party deterred us from really making our plan final.Finally after seeing that the weather will calm down on Thursday and Friday we booked for our cabin and off we went.We left around 8:30 and got their towards noon.We just checked in and left right away to the area where there are a lot of snow activity going on.It is called Snow valley.We went to snow sled for about 5 hours resting in between.I have been to Big Bear before but was so timid to do it.This time I finally did!Vaness had a blast.She loves ding i so much except that she got me worried because she wont wear her parka.She must very uncomfortable in it so we decided to just let her wear his sweater.It was a very nice day to be out because the weather was perfect.Not too cold nor hot.In California you get the best of both worlds.Beach just 5 blocks away and mountains a 90 minute drive to see the snow during winter.

The next day Joel decided to try again his passion years ago which is skiing.He stopped doing it because of work, health problems and the distance.I urged him to try it again because you don't unlearn skiing.And he did it!...for 6 long hours..All Vaness and I did was wait..and wait..and wait and oh by the way did I mention wait? I have to endure being out there not sure what to do except eat and feed vaness because he has not done it for the longest time ad I want him to feel good about himself and he did!.so here are some of the photos...