Lehamite

This weekend my Son and I went with another Father and son to Tahoe for the first turns of the year. Saturday we skied Squaw Valley. It snowed and blowed hard, but we all had a good time. The weather kept the crowds at bay.

On Sunday, we Skied Sugarbowl. I know that Squaw is everyone’s favorite, but when I am at Sugarbowl, I feel at home. It helped this weekend that the snow was much better an more plentiful than at Squaw.

My son hadn’t forgot a thing. We all enjoyed steamers, nice powder and open bowl. In the afternoon, I took the kids on Market Street. They did great, nice turns all the way down. I think they will have me licked by the time they are 9.

For the past 8 years, my family has visited Aptos, a hamlet just south of Santa Cruz. It is our favorite week of the year, because we spend time together with our family and our best friends.

We stay at the Seascape Resort, which is the perfect combination of resort and location. We stay on the ground floor,which allows the kids to roam freely to the grass belt just outside.

On Sunday we went to High School Musical, on Ice.  The kids have been waiting for this day to come.  We went with the Hymans x David.  I secretly like the music.   The show was great, although not the choreography you would expect from Disney.  Troy landed at least 1 triple, and Gabrielle did a backflip at the end.

As we were leaving, Darya said “So many memories”.

Today my son and daughter rode in the Ryan Phua Memorial Ride. The highlight for the community was the attendance. My son’s friend was number 902 – I am sure there were that many riders. The highlight for me was my daughter’s ride.

She decided, yesterday, she was going to take off her training wheels for the race. We took them off and practiced at Roosevelt school. Due to many hours on the Razor and good balance, she got it immediately.

Today at the race she rode like a pro. 1/2 mile with only one bump. Well, it wasn’t actually a bump, it looked more the a 5 year old. She saw that he had crashed. Since she had no experience with someone crashing in front of her, she could not decide what to do. So she stayed the course and ran over the kid. When she got about half way over his back tire she fell off her seat and stratled the frame of the bike.

She is a trooper: after crying for a minute she shook it off and took off again. I wasn’t going to leave her at this point so I ran with her. It turns out her max biking speed is my max running speed. I sprinted the whole thing. She, however, got the ice cream.

My congratulations to the organizers, what a great event. God bless the Phua family.