Christmas Day, 2014
Even though dad keeps greeting Merry Christmas! And mom gets ready a sumptuous breakfast. Both kids still don’t want to get up. This might because we had a long drive yesterday and followed a long Christmas Eve celebration dinner. As a result, our manager has to change his plan. Instead of going to Jaypeak resort in US, we will have to choose a nearest one .
Montreal really is a perfect place for skiing fans. You can easily find an awesome ski resort in one hour driving distance or even less. Our manager chose Orford today. One reason is, it’s one of the highest ski mountain in Quebec, and it’s near us. My measurement is always based on the comparison with the biggest mountain in Ontario, which is Blue Mountain. The Vertical Drop in BM is 750 fts while Orford is 1900 fts. Moreover, due to pretty high temperature today, a lot of trails are closed in some other resorts, however there are more trails open in Orford today.😄
Although it only took us 20 mins drive. However it’s already 11am when we reached there. 😉
Nice weather @ 5 degree, less people, real snow without ice. We were all excited when getting on the gondola. However, it’s different story when we reached on the top mountain.
It was so so windy.😠
We had to quickly came down and chose the trails very carefully with Green Trail for me.😂
Surprisingly when I hear the sound from the skis chafing the snow, the skiing joy easily came to me again after one year. I skied quite few times with my snowboarding buddy. We chatting, chasing, taking pictures and videos while skiing. Then we met our 2 sweethearts who came down from other challenging trails.
It was a short and quiet skiing day. At the end, our Santa Claus believer missed our home Christmas tree and chimney. After he received a best Christmas gift ever 4 years ago, he and Mr. Santa became good friends. He wondered what his dear Santa had brought to him this year. He also recommended that we have to stay home and wait for Santa from next year.
Sure sweetheart, nothing will be better to make their kids happy for parents. Let me hug and kiss you more and more, I wish you a very Merry Christmas in Montreal!🎄🎉🎊🎁
Lucy Fanlu 