Valentine's Day 2010

So for Valentine's Day this year we decided to just stay home and go out on the 16th.  Curt found this awesome Yurt (a Mongolian hut) where you snowshoe or cross country ski (but really you could just walk in your boots because there was a packed path to walk on) 1/2 a mile to the Yurt and then they cook you a 5 course meal inside it.  It was so much fun and the food was really yummy...stuff that I had never had before like polenta and golden beets and leek soup.  It was good!

Here's me in my snowshoes!

Me again!  Curt had the camera!

This is Solitude

Here we are at the Yurt.  See it in the background?  It doesn't look very big but it was big enough to hold quite a few people, maybe about 20 that were eating and then the chef and the guide/server.

This was me falling into Curt because I was trying to show my snowshoe in the picture and lost my balance and you can't put your foot down like you normally can because the back of the snowshoe gets caught on the snow and you fall!  Don't worry though...he caught me!

This was the couple sitting across from us.  They were very fun to talk to!

Again, here we are waiting for our dessert...I think!

This was after our "hike" back down with the buildings of Solitude in the background.

I decided to "chill".  Right behind those mounds of snow was an ice skating rink.

Here's an action shot!  Curt wouldn't do it so I had to.  Yeah...we all know who's the most courageous in the family!

This one doesn't tell the whole story like we wanted it to.  If you look at the lights in the background they are kind of fuzzy.  That was because there was mist in the air from the hot tub behind that fence.  So I was blowing a kiss to make it look like the mist was coming from my breath but you couldn't see the mist...so it bombed!

We had so much fun.  The guide even said that they do this in the spring and summer.  We are thinking about doing it again.  Anyone want to come with?