Skiing with Anna on my birthday

Anna was on Spring Break this past week and since it was my birthday on Friday we came up to Keystone for a day of skiing. It was a fantastic day. Jude and Marcy came up at lunchtime and Jude joined us for the afternoon on the slopes.

Anna took a tumble in the powder on the North Bowl

The thing I was most excited about for my birthday is our Sleigh Ride Dinner. Marcy and I did this 20 years ago and had not been back since. We met at Keystone Lake and took a shuttle out past Keystone Ranch. Then we took a two-horse open sleigh to the ranch house for dinner.

On the sleigh ride to dinner

We arrived at the homestead just before dark. There was no electricity here, so they were cooking with gas and had to truck in all their supplies. We were a little chilly when we arrived but had a bowl of piping hot beef and barley soup ready for us.

Arriving at the homestead

They had a country and western guitarist there who provided some great entertainment. The dinner itself was excellent, Anna and I had the steak while Jude and Marcy had the salmon. Then it was apple pie and ice cream for dessert, mine had a candle in it and everyone sang happy birthday.

Being serenaded during dinner

It was a memorable evening and it was over too quickly. On Saturday Jude and I skied at Keystone and we managed to get in 10 runs on the coldest day I have had skiing in many years (6 degrees with 20mph winds). We came home Saturday night and had a relaxing Sunday.