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Skiing in Breckenridge

We've enjoyed getting into the Colorado lifestyle with a little time in mountains every now and then.  I took Hannah and Ellie out skiing today and we had a really good time.  Spent a few runs on the bunny hill and then made our way up the mountain so they could get a few runs in on the green hills and try out the real thing.  Ellie really had to learn that you have to go across the hill to prevent going too fast.  In fact, on our first run higher up on the mountain, Hannah had fallen and while I was trying to help her up, Ellie took off down the hill because she was so excited.  She made it over a ridge to the next green while I was still working with Hannah and a couple of seconds later I decided I had to chase her.  By that time, she was already at the bottom of that first hill with a ski patrol guy having caught a crying Ellie.  So that was a bit of a lesson for her, but once we got all of that straightened out (after waiting for 5 or 10 minutes, I had to walk back up the hill to find Hannah), we worked out the back-and-forth, nice-and-slow approach and they started to figure that out.  Here is a little bit of video of the girls working out their new skills as they made their way down the mountain.

We also made a couple of stops for pictures along the way and caught a quick shot of them while we were chowing down on hot dogs and hamburgers for lunch at the Vista Haus up on the mountain.