Snowbird Ski Resort Tram Ride

Every year the Snowbird Ski Resort has customer appreciation days in October. If you bring a can of soup to donate to the food bank you can ride the tram up the mountain for free. This has been a fun family tradition for years. I didn't think it would be very cold, or snowy up the mountain this year because of the unseasonably warm weather lately, but much to my surprise it was snowing...HARD at the top of the mountain. We got their early since we had other things going on the rest of the day and it was a good thing we did. We were on the first tram that went up the mountain at 11:00. As we went up the mountain we went into some thick fog and then heavy, heavy snow. As we got off the tram the snow fun began. Paul and Spencer immediately started throwing snowballs at each other, and at me (I was good at dodging the snowballs).

Kaylee has some amazing fashions that she sports. This was no exception. As we were getting ready to leave our house she realized that her coat doesn't have a hat so she found a hat...a big, bright sunhat, and of course she couldn't leave without a purse to hold her "essential items" such as: money, Swedish fish, etc.

With all the snow falling Paul was having so much fun. Well everyone was in the warming hut he decided to build a little snowman. We were watching him out the window and of course Marla and Spencer had to join in the fun. It turned out to be a cute little snowman on the picnic table.

We were ready to head on the next tram down the mountain and just as we were heading over to the tram the tram operator came and said they needed to clean ice off the lines and to go back in the warming hut until they were ready. The guy came and had everyone load onto the tram and then they were still sitting there. They had to make sure that everyone was off the top of the mountain because they were shutting down the tram due to the weather getting worse and weren't going to bring any more people up on the tram until the weather improved. So, since we made it up on the first tram of the day we were able to play for a little bit, and went back down the mountain on the second, and last tram of the day. It was crazy, but fun to play in the snow.