We went up to the cabin twice this month. The first weekend in February the house was almost buried in snow. On Saturday, we had beautiful weather and everyone had a good time skiing. Mousse and I took a very long walk that day.
On Sunday, it was snowing and only Tom went out to ski. The kids and I worked on packing up the house so we could head home once Tom was home. Well, the weather and the Highway Patrol had a different idea. After it took Tom over an hour of harrowing driving to get home from the ski spot (our house is only 10 minutes away under good conditions), they ended up closing the highway. Oh boy. I was pretty stressed about the situation, but Mousse was not.
We ordered a pizza and hoped that by the time we were done eating the road would open back up since it stopped snowing. And that's exactly what happened. Of course, the driving was extremely slow and a bit slippery, so we got home very late.
We headed back up to the cabin for Presidents Day weekend. There had been lots of travel warnings because it was expected that a lot of people would be traveling to the area because of the record snow fall. We waited until pretty late Friday night and got there with no issues. Saturday and Sunday the skiers couldn't ski without extra costs because of the type of season pass they have, so we did other mountain things like take Mousse for walks and stroll around the adorable town of Truckee.
Here's Mousse loving every minute of being in the snow, including on the beach at Donner Lake.
Tom and Mousse taking in the view of Donner Creek running into the lake.
Here's a video of Serafina skiing on Monday.
Unfortunately, Leo fell that afternoon and they ended their ski day a little early. I picked them up, and Leo seemed fine. He was hurting on Tuesday so he didn't ski, but Tom and Serafina did. They wrapped up early again and we got on the road right as the snow was starting to fall. We got home with no issues and I'm very glad we got out of the area when we did because they have had some extreme weather these last couple days with more to come!
