First practice!

Well, we now have one practice under our belts and no idea when the next practice will be!  It has been such a struggle for the mountains around here to make snow, the temperatures have been so warm.  The first team practice was last night but they're not doing night skiing anymore for the time being so no practice tonight and we'll see what happens next week.

So we left the house and it was raining!  The good news is that the sun was peaking out when we got down there.  Sweet Pea got some of her gear on at the car and we walked down so she could get her boots on.  She met some of the crazy boys on the snowboard team and two of the coaches.  The rest of the group slowly gathered.  Last night there were 11 kids total, 9 boys and 2 girls.  The coaches thought that was going to be about everyone.  There's one more coach who wasn't there last night.  At 5:30 they set off to do some get to know you things then headed up the mountain for some boarding and evaluating by the coaches.  I got to hang out in the lodge, where it was warm and dry.  There were a few other moms there waiting; I'm sure by the end of February we'll know each other pretty well.

I didn't really get to hear much about what they were doing on the mountain but it sounds like Sweet Pea had a good time.  The other girl is about her age (nice) and it sounds like one or two of the boys are as well; the rest are much younger (from what I could tell).  The Wednesday night practices are an hour and a half, so she was done by 7:00, slightly wet, and starving.  We loaded up the car and stopped for dinner on the way home.  Not going to happen after every practice but it was what we needed last night.

Here's hoping that we get a long cold, snowy spell!  We need cold to make snow and having some real snow would be a bonus.