February 22, 2009
10:50am

Lee and I just got back from an amazing trip to the snow with Lee's good friend Eric. We had soooooooo much fun. We went up to Shaver Lake for the day to go snowmobiling! Eric's family owns 4 snowmobiles, so we each got to ride our own! It was Eric, his dad Tim, Lee and me. Considering, I've never driven a snowmobile before, I was having the time of my life.

Here are a few pictures:
(these pics were all taken with my phone's camera, so sorry if they are poor quality, I forgot to bring my camera!)


The weather was perfect up there. We even started to shed some layers towards the middle-end of the day. The area we went to had lots of trails of all kinds for us to explore on. We took one trail up to the top of the mountain and took a few pictures, the view was gorgeous!


On our way back down the mountain, we stopped at this one spot called "the meadow" where, as you can imagine, it was a huge open field of fresh powder. Oh man, was that fun! The snow was probably about 5 feed deep, so it was a little scary going through this huge field...if you stopped, you would sink and get majorly stuck! (which I did once HA). So we played around there, hit some sweet jumps, and headed back down to explore more trails.

We had a few set backs throughout the day though, while trying to start one of the snowmobiles (which have a lawnmower type start), the rope snapped. So we were unable to use that snowmobile for the rest of the day, which was a bummer. But it wasn't until later in the day, so it worked out. Then, one of the other snowmobiles was having belt problems? the track wasn't quite catching correctly, but we managed. And finally, on the way home, we heard this weird rattling noise coming from the truck Eric's dad was driving. We were following behind him in another truck on the highway trying to figure out what was making the noise. A few minutes later we see the wheel fly off of his trailer and into oncoming traffic. So after weighing all of our options (we were still about 1.5 hours from Erics house, and from there 2 more hours to our house). We decided we had to leave that trailer behind because the axle broke when it hit the ground. So that meant the 4 of us had to lift these 700 lb. ish machines into the back of each of the trucks. It was nuts. Man am I sore, but it was pretty awesome, I can't believe we managed to do that.

So, that was our snowmobiling trip. Overall we all had a blast! We came home last night and got to spend the evening with John (Lee's brother). I will have to post some photos (and videos!) of the boys doing karaoke once I get them uploaded. It was definitely a fun day/night!

As for today, John is coming with us to look at a few more houses. Our Realtor sent us a new house that we are really interested in! It is way bigger than the one I previously posted, and cheaper! The only drawback is it's a really old house. But from the looks of the pictures, it has undergone major remodeling, so we'll see today I guess.

1 Comment

1. Anonymous on February 22, 2009 at 11:16 AM

   What a fun day in the snow -- minus all the trouble! ANd, I can't wait to see the karoke !! Linda