Our Ski Trip really was amazing. We left GSP around 5:50 in the morning with C at Nana and Grandpas and we made our journey to Salt Lake City. We took a shuttle up to the St. Regis and were able to cash in on a free lift ticket for the day at Deer Valley. It was a perfect way to start the trip and we got about 3.5 hours of skiing in and I got to feel comfortable on skis again.
After skiing the hotel has this adorable hot chocolate station set up. Brad enjoyed a few cups of it while browsing around the beautiful hotel grounds.
We went outside around 5 pm for a champage sabering. Where they toast the guests and every has a few happy hour drinks. We met some amazing friends from Chicago out there and spent a few hours talking. We then headed inside for dinner at the hotel restaurant.
After dinner we put on our swimsuits and robes and headed down to the heated pool and hot tub. There was hardly anyone out so we enjoyed hot tubbing and then stopped by the s'more station to heat up some chocolate on graham crackers before crashing for the night.
The hotel was everything I imagined it to be and was our favorite hotel to date. Everything was so precious! We had a fireplace in our room and our room opened up to a juliet balcony overlooking a blue ski slope on Deer Valley mountains. I spent the next morning at the Remede spa and had an ammmmazing spa experience. I soaked in the giant indoor hot tub and then had an hour massage with a parafin wax treatment and cucumber slices on my eyes. I was feeling great! We then decided to ski a half day because Deer Valley was so gorgeous and there was a ski jump competition going on that we were excited to watch from the slopes.
The hotel had ski valet. This means they would fit our boots on us and then carry everything outside and where we were ready they are they to wisk you on your way. Just an added little fun that you don't get when you are staying at a house.
We really liked all the tall evergreen trees (well that's what we called them anyways-the tall Christmas trees were all over the trails). It made for beautiful runs. The other two mountains we skiied had bare trees all around and the added bonus of the Christmas trees really made for a beautiful backdrop. We also enjoyed that there were no snowboarders there. They kinda scare me. I am always afraid one is going to knock me out. (which happened 2-3 times on the other mountain.)
We met out new friends (Brittan and Vido) at High West in downtown Park city for drinks. It had just started pouring down snow and it was a beautiful view from dinner. The restaurant was "western meets modern" but a really cool place. We shared this delicous bison burger and thought it was great.
We then transitioned our trip from the St. Regis Deer Valley to a condo right at the base of Park City Mountain Range. We had 3 other couples join us for the remainder of the trip. We were all excited to get out there the next morning because we had gotten a few inches of snow and were hoping for some great runs.
Brad, Meg, and I skiied and everyone else boarded. It was crazy to see the differences. I felt like the snowboarders spent a lot of time getting there boards on after getting off of a lift. It was interesting to see how much harder the boarding looked to me than my little skis that I could pizza wedge with when necessary!
Brad and I before hitting the slopes.
The guys (Tyler, Brad, Coop, and Zach)
I really loved that all the couples stuck together. It made for a fun vacation!
Every day Tyler was our tour guide. He was great at leading us to the different runs. I had never met him before and the first morning they got there he was like okay guys we're going to start with an easy blue square (I was thinking easy blue square oh I am in for some trouble). Well turns out he really was great at leading us down doable runs. Except that time he took us down the black diamond mogul run trying to get us back to our place...yeah I was just a little scared. I was literally sweating by the bottom (I guess my adrenaline was pumping).
We had the best times ever! We are sooooo forever grateful that Brad's parents gave us such an amazing vacation while keeping C. We got to skype with him twice a day. Below I am on the phone getting ready to skype and it made the trip so worthwhile to see C so happy back at home!
We had lunch mid mountain with the group on day 2.
I think I was always the first one in the hot tub! There is nothing better than sitting in a hot tub after skiing all day. It's even better when it's snowing out. It was a little disappointing that it didn't snow more. However, there was snow all over the place so you could kinnnnda forget it wasn't snowing.
We were excited for our first night "out" in Park City. We stayed in and cooked spaghetti the first night with the group and decided to venture out our second night.
I love that the girls enjoyed a glass of wine with me!
The group at dinner.
This was our 5th day skiing---I decided to venture out with all the guys as we were going to try out the Canyons. Our camera died so no pictures from that day. It was a very new mountain resort. We really loved everything at the base of the moutain verry cute! I really enjoyed the runs here as well. We experienced some ice on one side of the mountain so we went to the other side and had much better conditions. I was definitely the slowest perosn this day. We only went down blues and while the guys were doing jumps I was saying prayers that I made it down the mountain in one piece. At one point we got to the top of lift and the single blue square was closed so I had to go down a double blue. I really think it was more challenging than the black. After a few falls and a racing heart I literally slid down the mountain on my butt and was very discouraged.-ha. I am sure so many skiiers got a great chuckle out of me! It was a fun day and I really enjoyed the challenge. I could ski, hot tub, drink wine and repeat every day. It really it my favorite type of vacation and I see many more ski trips in our future!
If you look close you can see our awesome game of UNO. We all got along so well and it was great sharing a trip with friends.
Brad and I on the ski lift. I think it was really cold on the lifts and made picture taking on the lift rare!
Here is a picture of the St. Regis from the slopes. It was crazy that from the base of Deer Valley you can't even see this huge hotel sitting up on the mountain. We just can't say enough things about our experience there.
We skiied down all the way into downtown Park City --which is so cool! The lift back up the mountain is literally fooorever but it's neat seeing the town and the mountain ahead--it was a great ski city with the 3 different mountains all within 10 minutes of each other.
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