At the top of the Outback in Keystone

The four of us had not been up to Keystone all ski season. So, when my my birthday weekend came around (today was the big day) I said I want us all to go and ski both days. Jude was not that happy about it because he had to miss a soccer tournament for it and he said he didn’t like skiing any more. But it was my birthday so up we all went Friday night.

My two favorite kids wishing me a happy birthday

Yesterday, we took it pretty easy as it was Jude and Marcy’s first ski day of the season. And I was recovering from being sick on Thursday. Marcy cooked a nice dinner last night and we had my birthday pie (I prefer it to cake). This morning the kids were super excited about my birthday and gave me my presents before breakfast.

Then it was on to the slopes. What was crazy is that Keystone was pretty empty today. The longest we waited in line all day was 2 minutes and most of the time we just skied straight on to a lift. We went all over the mountain including a couple of epic runs through the trees on the Outback.

The kids did great skiing the trees

The kids also wanted to race against each other so they did the race course both days. While Jude won both times what was interesting is that their times today were four seconds faster than yesterday. And this was at the end of an epic day. We skied 15 runs and over 20,000 feet of vertical today, longer than either of them had ever skied before. And Jude ended up having a blast and said he wanted to ski again next season.

The start of the kids official ski race