Family Vacation part 2

The girls arrived about 7:00 last night and had no better luck with climbing the hill in the van than Jr. did with his clan.  Ben and Dillon, his 7 year old nephew, went down the hill to help the girls with the children and bags.  Ariel said they "only brought up enough clothes to have a clean change of underwear for (Tuesday)."  Everyone was able to relax then and enjoy the house and the company.

This morning Ben and his sidekick Dillon walked down to the cars to try the hill again in the daylight but failed again.  They took the occasion to go into town for supplies ( and I think a break from climbing up and down the hill) hoping the sunshine will help thaw the hill shortly.

The children are having a party.  Ellie is friends with the bear now.  When I talked to her on the phone she said "he's not real" and she had named him Carson, her little brother's name.  Livvie was playing babies and Sydney was being the mother of them all.  I think the adults were just chillin', glad for the sunshine and for the men who run the errands up and down the hill.

All in all, it's just the kind of vacation that the parents will talk about in years to come and the kids will remember as the year they had their Winter adventure.