Living it up!

Today, Alicia and I were determined to soak in a little sunlight. I told her when the sun came up, we'd hit the sled hill in Eagle River. She spent the morning checking out the window to see if the sun was up yet.

We left the house just before 10am when the first rays of dawn were streaming over the mountains to the east. On the way to Eagle River, we pulled over so I could take a photo of the winter moonset, which was lovely. It wasn't till later when I was downloading the photos to the computer that I noticed Denali, Hunter and Foraker were also in the moon setting photos.

We got to the sledding hill just after 10am. There wasn't another soul in sight. I thought perhaps it was too early for folks to be up and about on a Saturday morning.

We took about 4 slides down the hill and headed back into the warmth of the van, which I'd left running with the heater on. Alicia loves to sled. But even she had to concede that her ears were frozen after the 4 runs.

We went to the grocery store for an hour. Afterwards we returned to the sled hill to see if any other kids might be there yet. Nope. No one... I'm thinking the -12 degrees probably was to blame for our lack of playmates. Regardless, we took another 3 slides and headed for home.

On the way, we stopped by an antique shop which also carries consignment prom gowns. Tess has a cotillion dance tonight and we'd been trying to find either a red or ice blue dress. She met us at the shop and tried on a bunch of dresses. One in particular caught her eye. Not necessarily as a cotillion option, but certainly interesting. What do you think? (I Photoshopped out her sock feet, replacing them with someone else's black sandaled feet!)

Alicia also wanted to get into the modeling act. She's wearing the "cape" to strike a pose...