Monday, March 04, 2024

Bittersweet snow skiing

We went snow skiing near Ostego, Michigan at Bittersweet snow skiing on Saturday, February 24th.  There was hardly no snow on the ground besides where they made snow on the hills.  With the warmer weather the conditions were really good for them making the snow.  See the pictures.  We arrived at Bittersweet around 9:50am and got on the slopes by around 10:45 am.  I have my own skis but my wife and 2 daughters rent their ski and snowboards so that took awhile.  We skied until around 5 pm and then went home.  I could have skied a couple more hours but everyone else was tired.  Snow skiing is one of my top 5 hobbies.  

 

Monday, August 21, 2023

Splash mountain in Disney World

My family and I were at Disney world's magic kingdom last Wednesday, August 16th.  I knew that Splash Mountain had closed back in February.  I was very disappointed in not being able to ride it. You can see from the pictures I took the only remnants left of Splash Mountain is some briars.  The penny coin machine, statue, and signs are all gone.  They should not have taken out Splash Mountain and replace it with Tianna's Bay.  They could have kept Splash Mountain and built Tianna's Bay somewhere else on the property.  I will take a good guess that Splash Mountain would have had more people than Tianna's Bay. The top picture shows us when we there in 2016. Well it was nice to see a little bit of Splash Mountain.  The woke police won that battle.




  

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

2022, wow what difference 2 years make

I have not posted for a couple years, since January 2020.  We all know 2 months later COVID hit and life had never been the same.  My wife and I went on a Christian marriage cruise in February 2020 and that was the first time I had my temperature taken due to COVID.  COVID had not hit the USA until March however it was in China in Jan/Feb.  Our cruise had sent an email saying no one from China or who had traveled to China would be allowed on the cruise.  Then in March things started shutting down.  Cruises, NCAA basketball tournament, schools and even churches.  The shutdowns were unprecedented in my lifetime.  Life changed having I wear masks, events shut down, public events cancelled and eating out was not allowed for awhile.  Now 2 years later things are getting back to normal but not like before COVID.  I have heard recently that China is shutting down things again due to another COVID outbreak.  I am hoping that doesn’t happen here.  A lot of changes have taken place in my life since January 2020.  My oldest daughter got married, my oldest son moved off to college(though he is only 45 minutes away), had a grandparent pass away.  Right now there is a war in Ukraine started by Russia.  Hopefully that will end soon.  It will take years for Ukraine to recover from that.  I will write more later.  I just wanted to post to say I am still out here.