Super Bowl Weekend

Colorado has seen very little snow in the last month.  December was a good month for snow, but we were out of town for most of it. We had a great ski day after the holidays in December, which happened to be the day the Panoramic Chairlift opened (not planned at all on our part).  We bought the Winter Park 4 pack this year - I think it was $169 but it was around $139 when it first went on sale.  That's an awesome deal for 4 days of skiing considering lift tickets are $100+.

We planned on going to Winter Park last Saturday with some friends who also have the WP pass.  We woke up Saturday morning at 5:30 am to see they got 6 inches.  That meant we were in for a great day of skiing!  We parked at Mary Jane and the lot was full right after we pulled in at 8:15.   We went straight over to the Panoramic Chair (the snow there is awesome) and started our day on blue/blacks in calf deep powder. Great start to the day but it didn't take long for our legs to start hurting!!

It was snowing over Berthound pass and the sun was shining on the upper half of Winter Park - this made for some awesome pictures!

Sunday was the Superbowl: Ravens vs. 49ers.  I can't say I really cared who won, I was more interested in Matt's office pool where we could win money.  Of course Matt needed the score to be Ravens 34 to 49ers 29 - which was the score. Until the last 2 minutes of the game when the Ravens gave up two points.  We could have won $200, so I was sad.

Carrie and I made Super Bowl themed cupcakes (6 sticks of butter later, yuck).  We kindly asked that everybody refrained from eating the dessert until after half time so we could enjoy our masterpiece :) Everything was edible - including the goal posts (but now what do I do with 12 packs of pocky sticks...).  I decided after this handwork I will take a break from baking - it took nearly 4 hours to make between the two of us!