Lizzy and I love this annual ski trip, and we hope that it will survive into us all having kids. Lance and Alisa share this dream and have been single handedly making it happen, last year bringing 3 month old Skyler to Utah and this year bringing 15 month old Skyler to Breckenridge.
Baby Skyler, and his parents by extension, haven’t yet had the easiest of ski trips. The first challenge was getting here. Between the flight delay and the terrible road conditions on Loveland pass, Skyler was stuck awake and traveling for almost 12 hours. After a long travel day in, he went to Peak 8 Child Care but caught himself a bad case of the snowsies and has run a fever since.
When asked my silly non-parent question ‘does having a baby impact your ability to do ski trip’ Lance and Alisa responded “I mean, obviously it does, right? I haven’t skied yet. But we’re hopeful that once we get him started and stretched and used to stuff like that, we’ll get to a point where this won’t be an ordeal.”
“We don’t want to change our life significantly having children. Alisa’s parents would take trips out west, doing multi-week road trips camping in Wyoming. My parents would take my brother and I to state parks and museums. We’re trying to introduce Skyler to that early and also to build the muscle ourselves because it’s a lot harder to travel with kids.”
“I think that’s the main motivation is to expose him to lots of things when he’s growing up and give him opportunities. So you gotta start early.”
“We want our kids to want to do the same things that we like to do. I don’t think they necessarily have to like those things, but we want to at least give them the chance.”
“To be clear, I’ll be extremely sad if Skyler doesn’t like skiing.”
With a pair of plastic sticks, Skyler is going to get his first attempt on the ski hill this week, and we fully expect he’ll shred.