Ty and Melissa Sleight: From Sun to Snow!

Well last week Ty and I were in the Caribbean enjoying the sand and sun (Blog post Pending) and this weekend we're in the mountains of central Idaho...with 34” of fresh powder over the last 48 hours. Holy Crap! It’s been a VERY LONG time since I’ve seen this much snow fall in such a short period of time. (So, if you’re a powder hound with lots of cash come check out the slopes).

Our friends had an available weekend at their condo in Ketchum, so they asked if we wanted to go. And we’re always up for an adventure!

We took the family up Friday after school and weren’t expecting nearly so much snow. But we WERE expecting very cold temperatures, and we had a free pass to the indoor pool and climbing wall, so we didn’t bring our snow gear! Ha!!

Friday night we toured part of the art gallery at Josie's request and saw this neat panting.

We ate at Despo’s Mexican Grill, which was packed!!! But yummy! Then we crashed. The kids slept in the loft and we got the master suite of course.

The next day the kids were up at 5:45 am (WHY???) and apparently Rhett and Kate started calling 911 which was a lovely callback to get first thing in the morning. We apologized profusely and said everything was fine, but we must not have sounded that convincing because about 15 mins later a knock on the door brought a policeman by. Uggh! We apologized again and told him really everything was fine, we just have a 3 and 6-year-old. ☹

We had cinnamon rolls and orange juice for breakfast and relaxed watching cartoons. Then we ventured out to see if we could find a sled as there was 12" of new snow on the ground and still heavily snowing.

We found a sled and came back to the condo, but it wasn’t steep enough, so we tried to head up to Penny Hill, but got on the wrong road. We were turning around at the end and didn’t realize the road dropped off about 2 feet on the shoulder and the truck got stuck. Really stuck!

We worked at it for about an hour before a friendly passerby tried pulling us out and when it didn’t work, they gave the kids and I a ride to the Sun Valley Club to warm up while Ty waited for the tow truck.

We felt like hillbillies in Westminster Palace. Yes, there were a few Nordic skiers coming in and out that were also all wet, but 3 rambunctious kids make you stick out a LITTLE more. We mostly hung out in the changing rooms, which is the size of our whole house and way fancier with expensive couches and benches, fancy showers, soaps and sinks (and very fragile dried flowers) but lots of good places for playing hide and seek.

After Ty got unstuck we gave up on the sledding, got some lunch and went to the pool.

We hung out in the lazy river and splash area and steam rooms for the rest of the afternoon before we checked out the game room. I wanted to note that Josie beat Ty at checkers BADLY!! After we stopped off for some fresh cookies, we ate dinner and headed to bed.

When we woke up the next morning there was additional 20” of snow on the ground.

These are stairs. Ha!

We got ready for church and when we pulled up to the building this is what we saw.

Oh well. At least we tried. We headed back and did a little of our own scripture study.

Then the kids went out to play in all the snow about 5 minutes later Josie came in and said, “Kate’s really stuck, and her boot has come off and I don’t know what to do”. Ty headed outside to help as I watched from the window. He was up to his chest in a snow pile getting her out! After a few tears they gave up that and decided on a nice warm soak in the tub instead.