Girls Ski Weekend

We started our trip as planned for Thursday night. I 90 from Cleveland towards NY became a a good old fashioned blizzard. By 4 am we called it quits. Found a hotel room off Peach St. in Erie, PA, wound down and finally slept. This is a picture of a rest stop Fri. morning when we finished the rest of the drive. The snow continued to fall non-stop until Sun. morning. Even the locals in Ellicottville would look out the window and exclaim, "WOW, it's STILL snowing!"

Here is the lovely chalet we were so lucky to stay in.

Here is Cynthia shoveling off the lid of the hot tub for the first time of the weekend. The little building next to it is the sauna. The process was run out in a towel and slippers and leave them in the sauna. Next run to the hot tub, pray you don't slip into the snow and then soak away muscle aches from skiing. Once you are nicely cooked, run to the sauna, rewarm or cook some more, wrap warmed towel around you, slide on slippers and run to the house. Ahhhh. Fun even if you don't ski.

This was the view from the dining table Sunday morning when it had finally quit snowing. It was a beautiful place. 14 women in all spent the weekend. The skiers had ideal conditions with no one falling or getting cold. The non skiers had a trip to Ellicottville for spa treatments and a tiny bit of shopping. We all enjoyed each others company, great food, drinks and lots of cards, scrabble, bananagram and Mexican train games. Lots and lots of laughing. Even squeezed in a movie.

Here we are after a long weekend of fun before traveling home.