weekend getaway @ bretton woods.

we woke up bright and early friday morning to catch a 6.30am flight out of LAX. we were really, very tired, but the sunrise view of los angeles out the window during take-off was quite gorgeous.

john rented this townhome over in bretton woods, new hampshire for this year's annual ski trip. the view out the back porch was absolutely gorgeous. and we didn't even realize until later in the day when the clouds cleared that we had a magnificent view of mount washington.

this years trip was much smaller than last year's to sunday river, maine. it was just john+cindy and kids, greg+yoko and kids, me+james, chris (minus claire) and dustin. we all arrived sometime friday night, and saturday was the designated ski day over at the bretton woods ski resort.

i loved this mountain! it definitely helped that the temperature was in the thirties (as opposed to the high of SEVEN last year in maine), but in general the runs themselves are much nicer - especially for someone of my skill level. the green runs are really long, and it can actually be quite exhausting to complete an entire run without taking a break. and there are plenty of blue runs that are closer to a green than a black. i've been to too many places where the difficulty level between green and blue is so great, that i'm bored if i stay on the greens, and scared shitless if i go on the blues, so i'm just not having a good time. here i actually felt like i was being challenged but not scared, and actually had a ton of fun. i really hope we come back here next year.

here are a couple pictures from the top of a run. our red noses was due to wearing goggles all day. >.<

at the base of mount washington is the gorgeous castle-like mount washington hotel. while we didn't stay there, we did stop by just to take a look. the best view of it though, which i wasn't able to get a picture of, was from the very top of the ski resort. you see the entire valley, with the mountain in the back and the hotel nestled at its base. pretty awesome.

we even saw dog-sledders! how freaking cool!

oh, and i forgot to mention, we flew into and out of manchester, which has a dunkin' donuts! LOVE.

and since i started with an LA sunrise, i thought i'd end the post with a NH sunset. can't wait til next year's trip!!