We had planned to go tubing on Mt. Baldy Christmas Eve, but postponed our trip until this three day MLK weekend. Lydia's kindergarten classmate Cy and his mother Chantalynn joined us on our first visit to Mt. Baldy. We left around 10 AM this morning and dropped by a Taiwanese breakfast place and a Vietnamese sandwich place before we finally made it to the mountain. We enjoyed tubing for a couple of hours (the kids a little less) and then headed back down the mountain so we could get situated in our cabin and have dinner. Unfortunately, the place where I reserved was a very shady place and no one was there to check us in. We took the advice of a nice man living on site and not affiliated with the lodge, and decided to find another place to stay. All the places down the mountain were either fully booked or only had single beds left. Somehow, we ended up at Chantalynn's aunt's house in Riverside and had a good night's sleep in a gorgeous home. Getting there (and just finding a place to stay the night) was certainly an unexpected journey, but at least everyone was happy and safe.
Going up the mountain on the longest ski lift ever
Our family with Chantalynn and Cy
Our second ski trip as a family
Sophie insisted on pulling the tube, until she realized that it wasn't moving
Wheeeee
Chantalynn took a turn with Sophie, who she nicknamed "Snow Bunny"
My sweeties
Cy and Lydia tubing together
It was a long, bumpy ride down
It's fun going down, but then you have to pull the tube back up. The kids didn't last the allocated two hours because they got tired of trekking back up.
The workers were helping our family tube down at the same time that they forgot to wait for the lane first.
Running start
A long ways down
I got a different companion on the way down
Such a gorgeous day
Chilling
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