Our (Relaxing) Vacation

Well, we both admit that it was not the vacation that we thought it would be. Matt surprised me on Christmas with a planned trip up to Lake Tahoe to ski/snowboard for 5 days. I was so excited, it had been years since I had been skiing and the last vacation Matt and I took just the two of us was almost 3 years ago so I couldn't wait to spend some time with my love. It was sooooo hard to leave the girls but I knew that our week was going to be filled with fun. We woke up Saturday morning and (luckily) decided to ski Heavenly which is the best mountain and very close to our hotel. The conditions weren't great since they hadn't had snow for a while but they weren't horrible either. We were having a great morning. Then it all ended. My poor hubby took a REALLY bad fall. Thankfully I didn't see it happen but I knew the second that I saw his face that it was bad. We didn't rent a car because we figured we would be on the mountains every day and there were shuttles to each place from our hotel so we had to take a taxi to the hospital. After several exams, an x-ray, and a CT scan, the ER doc told us that Matt had broken 2 ribs :( He was so sweet he kept apologizing to me because he thought he ruined our vacation but I was SOOOOOO thankful that it wasn't worse (it really could have been, thank God he was wearing a helmet!) So after about 3 hours and some pain meds (thank you IV!) we went back to our hotel where we spent most of the rest of our vacation. It certainly wasn't what we had planned but it was still WONDERFUL! We slept in, took (many) naps, rented movies, sat in the jacuzzi, went on several walks and ate some fabulous food. I was with my best friend and couldn't have had a better time.

Pre-crash...


Not a lot of snow...bummer

Post-crash - Matt said it was almost more painful that they had to cut off his beloved Under Armour and Angels shirts!


Yummy dinner at the Charthouse - we spent our lift ticket money on some really good food!

We promised each other that the next vacation we take together will be somewhere warm, where we can just sit on the beach and have very little chance of injury!