Casey's Chronicles: Waterbrooke Ski Trip

Just two days after our extended trip to Las Vegas, I headed off on an overnight ski trip with the kids from Waterbrooke Fellowship. Paul had to skip the trip this year, since he had mucho to do to get ready for the Sunday service after being gone three extra days that week! We headed to the Three Crosses Retreat Center in Cannon Falls, Minnesota. What a wonderful place!

We spent Friday night playing games, snacking, hanging out, and watching movies on a huge wall screen on comfy couches at the farmhouse.

They used to have a family style pool here, but it didn't conform to public regulations, so they remodeled the pool room and turned it into a pool room! There was also ping pong, foosball, a "firepit" with no fire, and an indoor picnic table for snacks and more snacks provided by our hosts!

The kids had a blast in this room.

Evan (on the right) brought a game he loves called "Killer Bunnies" and taught anyone who came near how to play.

We did some team competition, and this group wouldn't give up on the "Build a Crossword Puzzle" challenge - use the 26 letters of the alphabet and try to use as many letters as you can.. Each letter had Scrabble type scoring on it. The winning team scored around 100 points!

Our hosts had another building (formerly a hog barn) they converted into a dining facility and large group meeting area with a stage, and wonderful food! For breakfast we had french toast, bacon, juice, coffee, and milk. And ... we didn't have to do the dishes or the cooking!

We headed to Welch village to ski on Saturday morning. Well...most of us skiied. Good thing I brought a few games so when the kids went in to warm up, they could play a game with
Alex. He held down the fort and saved our tables for us:)

I'm sure the bananagrams had a few misspelled words, but who cares?

Jacob comae in and said he lost his little brother! Turns out Luke didn't want to go down a black diamond( smart boy) , and the other two went without him. Then they couldn't find him when they got back to the top! They came back to the lodge, and told me. I went back out with Jacob and we found him as soon as we got up the chairlift and down the far left hills. He was coming down the hill by himself. Good thing he was wearing the orange hat - we spotted him right away!