Many a times I feel we live life in weekend bites. Slog through the week just to get to Friday evening, to be relieved from "schedule", to not have to worry about an alarm clock. Saturday mornings are always the best, when I get to sleep in long enough that my alarm clock is a cute walking talking one in pajamas and usually comes in saying "Mumma, good morning Mumma, I love you Mumma" :-) Oh those moments are to live for!
On Saturdays, Rian goes to learn Tae Kwon Do. His classes started from 12 Jan this year, and he's started his second quarter now. This class is a great mix of physical strengthening, discipline, honor, and self defense. Rian enjoys Dad's company for these Saturday morning classes.
This weekend was super crazy, nothing new there. We wanted to go skiing, so Amit and I packed on Friday evening. On Saturday morning, Daddy duo were ready, and out for the Tae Kwon Do class, and Mommy finished the last bits of packing and food assembly. When they came in, we went to Ansh's place to cut his and Parikshit's bday cake - black forest from Hot Breads, best Indian pastry with fresh cream. Then it was off to Rian's favorite Auntie Andrea's house. Andrea, my officemate, has a special place in Rian's life - he loves playing with her, talking with her, eating with her, everything. Andrea auntie made special cheese fondue for Rian, and filet mignon steak, with green beans.
After checking out all cameras of Andrea's new car, we were back at the Tae Kwon Do place, as Sir said Rian was ready for testing. Rian had learnt Kee Bong 1 sequence from 1 through 16, and he tested very well. He got a promotion from white belt to the next yellow belt. Rian was super thrilled!
After that, we came home, and put our bags and food into the car. At 5pm, we started driving to Tahoe, and we were a bit unhappy with our 9:15pm ETA. The roads were empty and it was such a quick drive that we were in our hotel room at 8:45pm and done with dinner at 9:15pm. We stayed at Motel 6, and the Dominos next door has our favorite thin crust pizza, and we order it half plain cheese and half Pacific Veggie. It was delicious, we all overate :-) and slept at 10pm.
We woke up at 7:15am, and were all ready and driving off at 8:30am. Our room had microwave and fridge, so we carried our milk, sugar, coffee, butter, bread, jam and peanut butter. In the morning, as Amit made Rian ready, I quickly made coffee and 3 PBJ sandwiches. This has been our standard for most ski trips this season. We have the routine worked out to such a T that we're pros at it now!
We had Rian enrolled for ski school but he was not very happy. He kept telling us ski school is too easy, and everyone goes too slow. I think the problem is there are 4 kids to every teacher, and Rian does not get enough attention. With us, he's used to too much attention, and all praise every time. He cried and didn't want to go in. At 10am we got a call saying he's out and wants to talk to us. We cajoled and sent him in again, this time with a ziploc full of Mike and Ikes. At 12:30pm he was out again, crying for us and refusing to go in again. He kept saying I want to ski with you. We checked on what he had done since morning - the kids were on a bunny slope since morning. No wonder this kid was bored. We decided to take him with us.
Unfortunately in the morning, I had 2 bad falls, and Amit too had hurt his knee. Now we are not used to falling as much, since we ski well. These falls were kind of unexpected, and my right knee was badly twisted. To top it all, I didn't realize when I fell, how bad it hurt. I kept skiing. By 1pm, I was definitely limping. The weight of the ski boot was also too much for my knee.
We all had lunch at the top of the mountain, at BBQ Smokehouse 360 - nice restaurant that we had not tried till then. All 3 of us skied down Sugar n Spice. Then I called quits. Rian and Daddy went for 2 more runs on Sugar n Spice. On the first run, they went through the tunnels and forests, did a blue run called Shortswing in between, and also did a second blue run called Lower Castle! My babe was awesome! He was so excited that at 3:20pm, these 2 went up again for a second run through Sugar n Spice. This time around too they did the short blue Shortswing! At 3:50pm when I finally met them, both were exhausted and totally done for the day. I was in line for the hot chocolate already, when Rian said - Mumma, I want a second lunch, I am too hungry! He had a whole pizza slice! Our drive back was peaceful as Rian unexpectedly went to sleep. I guess he was too tired, and his tummy was full. We also bribed him that if he slept, he can watch Diego at home. Our drive back started at 5pm and we were home by 8:15pm. Record time. Record weekend. Awesome weekend. Fun family times. This is life and we are totally loving it!!
On Saturdays, Rian goes to learn Tae Kwon Do. His classes started from 12 Jan this year, and he's started his second quarter now. This class is a great mix of physical strengthening, discipline, honor, and self defense. Rian enjoys Dad's company for these Saturday morning classes.
This weekend was super crazy, nothing new there. We wanted to go skiing, so Amit and I packed on Friday evening. On Saturday morning, Daddy duo were ready, and out for the Tae Kwon Do class, and Mommy finished the last bits of packing and food assembly. When they came in, we went to Ansh's place to cut his and Parikshit's bday cake - black forest from Hot Breads, best Indian pastry with fresh cream. Then it was off to Rian's favorite Auntie Andrea's house. Andrea, my officemate, has a special place in Rian's life - he loves playing with her, talking with her, eating with her, everything. Andrea auntie made special cheese fondue for Rian, and filet mignon steak, with green beans.
After checking out all cameras of Andrea's new car, we were back at the Tae Kwon Do place, as Sir said Rian was ready for testing. Rian had learnt Kee Bong 1 sequence from 1 through 16, and he tested very well. He got a promotion from white belt to the next yellow belt. Rian was super thrilled!
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| Rian received his promotion at Tae Kwon Do to yellow belt |
We woke up at 7:15am, and were all ready and driving off at 8:30am. Our room had microwave and fridge, so we carried our milk, sugar, coffee, butter, bread, jam and peanut butter. In the morning, as Amit made Rian ready, I quickly made coffee and 3 PBJ sandwiches. This has been our standard for most ski trips this season. We have the routine worked out to such a T that we're pros at it now!
We had Rian enrolled for ski school but he was not very happy. He kept telling us ski school is too easy, and everyone goes too slow. I think the problem is there are 4 kids to every teacher, and Rian does not get enough attention. With us, he's used to too much attention, and all praise every time. He cried and didn't want to go in. At 10am we got a call saying he's out and wants to talk to us. We cajoled and sent him in again, this time with a ziploc full of Mike and Ikes. At 12:30pm he was out again, crying for us and refusing to go in again. He kept saying I want to ski with you. We checked on what he had done since morning - the kids were on a bunny slope since morning. No wonder this kid was bored. We decided to take him with us.
Unfortunately in the morning, I had 2 bad falls, and Amit too had hurt his knee. Now we are not used to falling as much, since we ski well. These falls were kind of unexpected, and my right knee was badly twisted. To top it all, I didn't realize when I fell, how bad it hurt. I kept skiing. By 1pm, I was definitely limping. The weight of the ski boot was also too much for my knee.
We all had lunch at the top of the mountain, at BBQ Smokehouse 360 - nice restaurant that we had not tried till then. All 3 of us skied down Sugar n Spice. Then I called quits. Rian and Daddy went for 2 more runs on Sugar n Spice. On the first run, they went through the tunnels and forests, did a blue run called Shortswing in between, and also did a second blue run called Lower Castle! My babe was awesome! He was so excited that at 3:20pm, these 2 went up again for a second run through Sugar n Spice. This time around too they did the short blue Shortswing! At 3:50pm when I finally met them, both were exhausted and totally done for the day. I was in line for the hot chocolate already, when Rian said - Mumma, I want a second lunch, I am too hungry! He had a whole pizza slice! Our drive back was peaceful as Rian unexpectedly went to sleep. I guess he was too tired, and his tummy was full. We also bribed him that if he slept, he can watch Diego at home. Our drive back started at 5pm and we were home by 8:15pm. Record time. Record weekend. Awesome weekend. Fun family times. This is life and we are totally loving it!!
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| Rian and Daddy after 3 back-to-back Sugar-n-Spice runs |
Congrats Rian on the new belt and like I said before this while skiing trip and experience is very impressive :)
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