Tubing

Saturday was spent in the most beautiful place ever. Honestly I can't think of a better place to go tubing.

We had the mountains, the reservoir, the snow and a whole lotta fun!

All just 20 minutes up the road.

 

It took a little bit of walking to get back around to the tubing "dish" as it is called but it was certainly well worth it! Here's Dad B and I where we parked the car and the arrow is where we tubed and sledded.

This is the view from the dish. Two freezing fishermen and the storm on the horizon.

Our 2 Aussies soaking it all in.

 

This is from the top of the tubing/sledding hill. Quite the trek to get up to the top but well worth it...especially for the trip down. :)

The hill or "dish" is behind and all around us. The photo makes the hill look less daunting but it was quite big!

We concluded that the tubes were great and added some good padding to the bumps in the snow...if you kept your bottom up that is. They also went at a quick speed but had enough surface area that you weren't zooming too fast.

The saucer on the other hand torpedoed us down the hill.

Chantel and I braved it.

See for yourself...

Such great day! All just 20 minutes up the road in the beautiful mountains.

Dad B.

We are lucky enough to have Dad B. visit with us this past weekend and this coming weekend. With freshly falling snow we couldn't pass up an opportunity to hit up Park City. While we didn't ski (the fresh powder came the following night) we definitely had some fun exploring. 

This massive moose greeted us on our way in. He was having fun prancing along in the snow white fields.

We went on a tour of Utah Olympic Park where they take you to the top of the luge and skeleton/bobsled courses as well as the top of the nordic jumps. I don't know how the athletes do the nordic jump. It was frightening just thinking of what they do...looking down and hoping for a good landing.

 

Here we are enjoying our non-athlete safety...

 

 Above is the beginning of the luge course. Solid ice my friends. Apparently the skeleton is much safer because the sled is so much heavier and provides a greater center of gravity, keeping you on the course.

The South Korean bobsled team was there training as well as some training skeleton...ers. skeletons? skelethletes?

Whatever.

It was just cool to see ok!?

I wouldn't mind doing a tourist skeleton run next time.

Dad was one page ahead of me though. He thought he'd give bobsledding a go this time around...non-athlete style. :)

They were even kind enough to give us Aussies a royal welcome and let Dad carry the Olympic torch.

How kind.

Doesn't he just look so thrilled?

 

Here's a snippet of live action.

Twas a good day and I think my Asian-eyed buddies would agree. :)