Tremblant

We went back to Mont Tremblant...... again.  We are beginning to become creatures of habit, doing the same vacations year after year.  Way back in October, we booked the vacation, knowing that we could cancel and get our money back until two weeks before leaving. As the trip approached, we thought about going somewhere else-- Ottawa, Quebec City, Jay Peak, etc. but when it came right down to it, we all concurred that we wanted to go on a ski vacation and knew we'd love it here. We have had so much fun here in the past,  it's only three hours away by car, and the Canadian dollar is rather weak.

We drove up on Tuesday and stayed through Friday.  As we drove up north, we were shocked to see snow on the ground (as it had all melted in Vermont).  We promptly checked into our hotel, soaked in the hot tub and hit the tubing hill.

Our room at the Homewood Suites was spacious and comfortable (a view from the loft)

We had a great day skiing on Wednesday.  The kids loved riding the gondola and riding all the lifts as a "4 pack of Abbott's".

 By noon, the snow started to fall:

We woke up on Thursday morning and took full advantage of the resorts "First Tracks" tickets for hotel guests.  We were on the lift at 7:45 and getting fresh tracks on the back side of the mountain for 4 runs in a row.  It was that moment when, for the first time in our families history, we were skiing as a family down slopes that I would have been skiing on my own at a pace that did not involve waiting for anyone.  It was the sweet spot that John and I have been waiting for-- for 7 years!

But it wasn't all about the skiing..... it was about spending time as a nuclear family, laughing a lot, eating wonderful food, and making t-shirts and hats at a really cool (and overpriced) design studio.

On the way home, we stopped at a Space museum in Laval, a suburb of Montreal.  It was a nice break and fun to explore space.

Mont Tremblant is one of my favorite places to vacation.  I love that we don't need to get into a car once we are there.  I love that we feel like we are really far away and surrounded by a different culture.