Summer trip
Jul. 5th, 2003 09:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
azziriaI've been thinking a lot about our planned summer trip this afternoon. We're driving over to the Swiss Alps and camping in Grindelwald for about 10 days, then returning via 3 days in the Black Forest (a campsite with a major pool/waterslides complex attached, which the kids should love).
I can't wait to get back into the mountains. I know we won't be able to do the really long high days we used to do before we had kids, but we'll still be able to use the cable cars etc to get up quite high and do some walking - DD walks well now for 3 and a half (she's done over 6 miles in a day), and DS will walk anywhere if there are rocks to scramble over (I'll be taking a bit of climbing rope for him, for my own peace of mind!) . Hopefully we can arrange it so that we both get a 'day off' to do something a bit more serious while the other does the childcare. I value these lone days one hell of a lot now - a whole day walking/scrambling in the mountains with no one to please but myself, just enjoying the scenery and thinking - bliss!
I think that one of the reasons I don't like skiing is that I like my mountains peaceful and deserted, which most ski resorts aren't! (The other reason is, of course, that sliding out of control down a mountain is not my idea of fun - I'll happily abseil a 300 foot drop (and have), but strap my feet to two boards and send me down a snow slope and I'm a gibbering wreck. Oh well, we can't all be good at everything...)
I can't wait to get back into the mountains. I know we won't be able to do the really long high days we used to do before we had kids, but we'll still be able to use the cable cars etc to get up quite high and do some walking - DD walks well now for 3 and a half (she's done over 6 miles in a day), and DS will walk anywhere if there are rocks to scramble over (I'll be taking a bit of climbing rope for him, for my own peace of mind!) . Hopefully we can arrange it so that we both get a 'day off' to do something a bit more serious while the other does the childcare. I value these lone days one hell of a lot now - a whole day walking/scrambling in the mountains with no one to please but myself, just enjoying the scenery and thinking - bliss!
I think that one of the reasons I don't like skiing is that I like my mountains peaceful and deserted, which most ski resorts aren't! (The other reason is, of course, that sliding out of control down a mountain is not my idea of fun - I'll happily abseil a 300 foot drop (and have), but strap my feet to two boards and send me down a snow slope and I'm a gibbering wreck. Oh well, we can't all be good at everything...)
