Jay Peak, VT

Spending a weekend at Jay Peak is becoming a tradition for us.  When the winter set in, the kids started asking if we were going to Jay Peak again this year.  This year we headed out early to beat the rush hour traffic making our drive 2 hours less! 

 While Micah & Victoria attended ski school, Izzy attended John school.  John was on the ski team in college.  This added to his teaching abilities makes him a patient ski instructor which is what Izzy needed.  The first half hour was typical anxious Izzy including a few tears... "I'm not good at this", "Why am I doing this", "You're better than I am", etc...  John took her to an open, flat area to work on her skills.  In the midst of her lesson, she then announced "Wanna race to the bottom?" with John then taking off after her.  The rest of the time John and Izzy enjoyed green and blue courses.  They even "got lost" at one point.  At the end of the day Izzy had a blast and is ready to do it over again.

 Victoria's main enjoyment with skiing is being called my Snow Bunny.  Regardless, she does pretty good but is certainly not a daring skier.

 Micah did well enough this year to be solo with his own instructor.  He'll be on the regular slopes before Victoria.

 While Micah and Victoria were at Ski School, I attended Snow Boarding School.  There were a total of 7 adults including me.  I even road the magic carpet up with Micah once.  So fun and humbling to be in the same area as kids.  They are fearless learners while adults are timid.  That shows in how quickly they can attains skinning/snowboarding skills.  I very much enjoyed snow boarding and would do it again.  It was much kinder on my knee than skiing and more protective being on the board together with me other knee.

The highlight at Jay Peak continues to be their phenomenal water park.  We are going to try and convince Oma to join us a some point as the lazy river here is amazing.  I don't think we would be able to get her out of the river at the end of the day! 

 Micah's favorite again this year was the Flow Rider.  The instructor was assertively encouraging which was helpful for everyone.

 He even went out with Izzy to help her learn how the kneel on the board.

Izzy was daring and did La Chute (red slide) with John.  La Chute stands 65' in the air, drops you with speeds reaching 45 miles/hour and a full 360 degree rotation.  All this in 6 seconds.  She was quick in saying she wasn't going to do this again in the near future.

Another year wrapped up at Jay Peak!