Duluth Ski Trip

We spent Dec. 2-4 weekend in Duluth, MN. It was our second trip to Duluth, but this time there was snow! One of the guys Lance works with had a bunch of free hotel rooms so a lot of the boys from Lance's work went, I think around 15-20 people total. Saturday morning we got up and went to Spirit Mountain (http://www.spiritmt.com/) to ski and snowboard. I was a little skeptical cause MN isn't known to have 'mountains', but Duluth actually has some or one! :) There was one 'blue' run open and it was a beautiful view from the top!

Spirit Mountain

The view that overlooks Lake Superior

Lance and AJ boarding

Some of the group

Cole, Patrick and Lance

Allison and me

Me and Lance had thought about letting Ansley ski, but since Lance was snowboarding, I would have been the one that she would ski with and since I'm not that good, we decided to just take turns. So while one of us was skiing or boarding, the other was in the lodge hanging out. It actually worked out cause Allison and Patrick went with Parker, so they were in the same boat. We all kinda took turns watching the kids so we could all ski and board.

Bri, Ansley, Me and Parker

Allison, Parker, Ansley, and Kimmy

Some of the group

After a fun filled day of skiing we went back to the hotel, took a nap, got ready to go eat dinner and check out Bentleyville. Bentleyville (http://bentleyvilleusa.org/Home.aspx) is nearly 3 million lights illuminating Bayfront Festival Park located on the shores of Lake Superior. It is the largest holiday light show in the Midwest and has the tallest steel animated Christmas tree in the U.S.

After Bentleyville, we meet up with the rest of the group to eat dinner and have a 'white elephant' gift exchange. We ate at Old Chicago, a delicious pizza place! Lance ended up getting a nice knife/leatherman.

Ansley and Parker had a great time at dinner!