Life of Sophia: Arizona & Utah

We finally got back from an epic vacation. First we flew to Arizona to see Granny and Grandpa. Although Granny is sick she looked very good when we met her at the hotel. We spent most of our time at the hotel swimming in the pool. They had great slides at two of the pools we went to. We also went to the zoo again. And we saw some friends of ours at Rawhide. A kind of cowboy/western-themed 'amusement park'. We had lots of fun. Here's the video.

We then went to Park City, Utah for our annual skiing getaway. Both you and Caden are excellent skiers and both of us couldn't be more proud. We went skiing with you one morning and you are a fast skier. You like to go straight down the hill. We didn't ski with Caden but he had very good report cards from his instructors and moved up in the experience slot while he was there. The other boy he was skiing with seemed very sad when he moved up.

Here is the video.

We also ran an app on our iPhones that kept track of the skiing we did each day. The first photo shows some basic metrics (max speed, distance skied, vertical distance skied, max altitude, number of runs, etc. The second shows a track of where we went and each run is outlined. For Day 3 I made it a satellite map. The last one shows the change in altitude and speed over time. You can see when we stopped for lunch.

I don't think it's terribly accurate. I'm pretty sure we didn't go 84 km/h on Day 1.

Here's Day 1:

Here's Day 2:

Day 3:

Here's some much bigger pictures of the ski tracks by day. You may notice if you are observant that on the last day we seem to have veered far right from the other days (the sort of trapezoid looking shape on the far right). Turns out daddy ended up going across the border from two different ski resorts (Deer Valley resort and Park City resort). I didn't realize it was a dividing line for the two resorts so I went through some 'do not enter' ropes. When I got down to the bottom and had thoroughly lost mommy I realized what I had done. Some fast talking to the life operators was able to get me back up a chairlift and down throw the ropes again.