Yeeee-Haw!

The kids and I went away this past weekend. R is in China, yes it is March, that means he is off for a few weeks to somewhere far, far away. While he is gone the rest of us are sad and mopey. The vibe is thrown off and we just miss him something fierce. That plus I think we have a bit of jealousy that he gets to go on a trip and we don't. We are stuck in the routine of work, school and small town living. So we try and do some fun things to liven things up a bit.

This year we booked a weekend at The Ridin' Hy Ranch . We had never been but the reviews online that I found were all very, very good. I'll admit, I was nervous. About a few things really.
1. Going somewhere we had never been, what if it was awful? What if we hated it?
2. Driving 3+ hours alone with just the kids.
3. What if we hated it again, this was a big one in my mind.

Well I'll tell you, we loved it! I can't say enough. It was just the right size (small), all inclusive (love that) and the weather was perfect (upper 60s). They had snow on the ski and tubing hills and had made a track for the snowmobiles. We did 4 trail rides over the weekend, won the BINGO coverall on Friday night, went swimming, tubing, rode snowmobiles for the first time, learned to ski, ate really well, played Apples to Apples and just had a really great time. No one wanted to come home. We really are aiming to return for a late summer weekend with R and see what summers are like there.  I think that now that we've all found our inner cowboy and cowgirl we'd be hard pressed to stay away too long.

And we'd really like to see R on a horse. :)