First soccer victory

This is the kids first year playing soccer. Anna is the fastest player on the field, and Jacob has quite the ball control (so much so that he trys to dribble the ball, by himself, from one goal to another). Since I am the coach, I think I need to teach him the virtues of passing (we don't need a Kobe in the family). We had our 2nd game yesterday, and we won! Jacob scored two goals and Anna had some great assists. 

Stranded at Alta

A strom came though Utah this week starting late Wednesday night that was dumping large amounts of snow in the mountains. So I had the bright idea to head up to Alta for a half day of skiing before heading to work. Our CFO also liked the idea, so we callled a "morning meeting" on the mountain (which we try to do several times a year).

So we had a great day of skiing. There was so much powder -- the storm brought 37 new inches of snow to Alta. I have never skiied in so much powder. I even rented powder skis for the occassion which were very helpful.

At 12:30pm I was ready to call it a day and head into the office. And then they closed the canyon road because of heavy snow and avalanche danger. The reopened the canyon at 5:00pm, but shut it down quickly because an avalanche swept a carload of 9 people off the road (they are fine). Then Alta required us to "interlodge" -- meaning, everyone had to go inside. The order was enforced by the resort putting a chain over the door and a county marshall. The canyon remained closed all night.

The next day I saw a dozen avalanches, most caused by the resort firing cannons into the snow. They let us start to dig our cars out at 10AM the next morning -- my car had snow up to its windows. At 12:30PM they reopened the road, and I had the pleasure of telling the people I work with about our long, productive...meeting. Since I did not have a change of clothes, I worked the day in my ski gear. I was surprised by how so few people even noticed -- I hope I have a few more "morning meetings" this year.