The Perfect Vacation

1. Close to home. Only an hour away. Perfect for when you forget something, need a doctor, or someone dies.  We've done it all.

2. Exquisite scenery.

DeRay's Watercolor

 

3. Clean fresh air and water. Amy tells us we need to drink a lot so we won't get altitude sickness. Snowbird has its own pure water system. 

4. Warm swimming pool one floor down; Jacuzzi, sauna, steam room; exercise room.

Judy and Eddy have been friends for a long time.

5. Activities, classes: watercolor,

water workout, Tai Chi, Meditation. Demonstrations: cooking; Lectures, Movies with free popcorn!


Sports: tennis, pickleball; Vendors: jewelry, essential oils, cards; Crafts; Games, Guided nature and adventure hikes, personal hikes; Storytelling for all ages.  Potluck lunches.

6. Time. Time to read; time to hike, time to listen to tapes, time to watch movies.

Vera gave me the picture of Jesus when I spent an hour with her again telling me how to make the best of each day.

We watched a movie in the condo each evening.

7. Good food. No restaurants. Just home cooking. I tried something new this year. For four dinners the week before we came, I prepared double and froze one to take to Snowbird. 1) Salisbury steak with mashed potatoes; 2) Cornbread salad; 3) Tuna casserole; 4) Squash soup w/sour cream and roasted pecans. We did sausage gravy over DeRay's delicious sour dough biscuits for one meal, Rotisserie chicken w/fettuccine one night, and Zucchini bake for our last meal. Harvest time: fresh tomatoes, kale, cucumbers, cabbage, beans.

8. Elevators – obviously invented for folks with arthritic knees. We have one unit on Floor 4 and one on Floor 11.

9. Good Company. I love my family.

   “Why do you keep a journal?” Amy asks one evening as I write. “You do the same thing at the same time every day,”

   “I don’t see a cougar everyday,” I exclaim.

   From the pool, she saw a moose; Pam encountered a badger on the trail and the next day, she saw two deer.  They tell tales of sitting by the dumpster after dark and watching the raccoons. 

Amy had a cold when we left. By the end of the week, teaching everyday, with the high altitude and meds, she had a head and stomach ache. We still swam the last day and hiked the handi-trail.

   Vera liked to join us for lap swimming each morning at 9.  DeRay and Ed did Water Workout with Judy each morning from 10-11.

   I generally went back in the pool with Amy in the evening when she got home from work.

   For over twenty years now we've owned a unit at Iron Blosom, Snowbird Resort. It’s sustaining to see our once-a-year friends from everywhere.