Ready, Set, Wait

Day one of our adventure was not what I expected. We woke up, got all our last minute gear packed, ate breakfast and had most of our bags and boxes moved into a truck to go to the airport when we got a call... It turned out that our flight to London was cancelled due to a volcano eruption in Iceland! What is it with our family and volcanoes? Thank goodness we found out before we were stranded in Seattle. The next available date for our flights is Monday, so we checked back into our hotel room and got a rental car. It was really difficult to break the news to Nate and Henry that we were not getting on the plane today because they have been looking forward to it for so long. What they got out of the conversation was that a volcano exploded and broke our airplane. Well, close enough.

Since the sun was shining and we had new snow on the ground, we decided to take Henry and Nathan to Alyeska for skiing lessons. This was their third lesson and they did great! They can stop and make turns. Henry even rode on the ski lift! The picture below is Henry skiing down the 'advanced' bunny hill.

While I am disappointed that our trip is delayed, we will try to make the best of the situation and have some fun. Four days isn't that long anyway, right?