Spring Break

On the Tuesday of Spring Break in March, we decided to go tubing at the Brian Head resort.  It was $15 for 2 hours of tubing so we figured it would be worth it.  We borrowed snow gear and took off for the mountain.  The kids had wanted to go skiing, but that is just too expensive and tubing is just as fun, I think.

Now, Brian Head has taken care to get rid of all the main thing I hate about tubing... having to hike 5 minutes up the mountain just for a 10 second ride down.  They had tubes with a rubber ring on them.  On the side of the groomed hills, there was a cable that they would hook your tube to.  Then, as you sat and enjoyed the scenery from your tube, the cable would pull you to the top.  You would hop off, grab your tube and pick a tubing run.  It was fabulous!!

We thought that it would be cold, we ended up taking off our ski gear pretty quickly and just went tubing in our pants and t-shirts.  (I got pretty sunburned because I didn't put sunscreen on my arms thinking they would be in a jacket all day.  Oops.)  And there weren't many people at the resort, which made it so much more fun.  We went up and down for 2 hours and didn't have to wait in line longer than 1 minute.  The runs were fast too!!  

Courtney wasn't so sure when we got there.  But she got in a tube and tried to go down....but only made it halfway before her tube lost momentum and she stopped.  There was another family there with an 8 year old girls also.  That mom and little girl worked on Courtney for 30 minutes before they got her to go back up and then we didn't see much of her after that.  She and this other little girl just went up and down and up and down.  Courtney loved it!!  And she had a great time with a friend.

Ethan had so much fun racing us and we worked trying to figure out which run was the fastest.  I flew past the boys on numerous occasions!

When our 2 hours was up, they closed the hill for the day.  We loaded up, ate some lunch, Ethan had some hot chocolate but we thought it was too hot of a day for hot chocolate, and then we headed home.  It was so much fun!!!