We finished our clinical duties Dec 14, and left for a long drive to Colorado on the 15th. Paul and I along with 7 other friends from medical school enjoyed a week in the winter wonderland. Our first adventure was on the drive up to Colorado. 5 of us drove up in a rental mini-van and drove through the night on a 16 hour drive. As we drove through New Mexico, Paul woke up and noticed that we were getting low on gas and reminded Scott to get gas at the next stop. Well about 70 or 80 miles later, we had a couple jerks and came to rest on the side of the road in the middle of no where... out of gas. We attempted to knock on some houses that were around ... but only a small dog would respond. Luckily a kind family stopped and picked up two from our party and took them to the gas station -- 10 miles down the road. We were so close ... if only Scott would have been more fuel efficient. A cop had to bring our friends back in the back of his car -- a comical scene. They bought two gallons of bottled water, poured out the gas, and filled it with gas. I'm sure this is very non-legal and environmentally wrong, but the cop did not seem to mind. So an hour added to the trip, and we continued on down the road.
We skied for three days and had a great time. Scott did his first black, on like his 8th day ever of skiing. Than shortly after we had him go down a double black. He was able to roll mostly down this one, but no injuries and much laughing.
Also, is a video of us all skiing.
We also went to our favorite sled hill and went sledding. The hill always has large bumps that kids like to add in. They cause you to go flying, but the painful part is when you land back on the snow right on your butt. We all had a pretty fun time with this. Again, no injuries except I think Paul left with a pretty good headache.
The last day, we went snow shoeing. This was also pretty fun, except I don't think any of the snow shoes stay on very well. And everyone had to keep stopping to re-adjust the straps. We hiked up hill for about 2.5 miles and than came back. Here is the greatest video of Megan, Scott, and I racing through the snow in our shoes. It makes me laugh every time I watch.
On the drive home, we hit a major snow storm. At times we were driving 5 mph and were only following the tire marks in front of us. This turned our 16 hour drive into 22 hours. But we made it home safely for Christmas!!
If you would like to look at all my photos from the trip ... go here http://picasaweb.google.com/rhassan11/Breck2007
