Anyway, we had great weather all day Saturday for our bike ride, picnic, unsuccessful attempts at a nap in the tent, dinner, making s'mores around the campfire, and bedtime. Sometime in the night, though, our luck with the weather ran out, and we awoke to a gray, drizzly, drippy day. Our options, as Mark saw them, were 1. Struggle in the rain to set up the canopy tent over the picnic table for breakfast prep and eating, pack lunches, and pack up a wet tent and gear to head home early or 2. Drive into Girdwood to take the tram to the top of the mountain, have lunch at the restaurant in the mountain-top lodge, and pray that the weather cleared by the time we got back to pack up. Guess what we chose? :)
Having never taken the tram before (we generally don't do too much tourist-y stuff), the boys didn't know what to expect. But after seeing one of the trams "fly" up the mountain (fly being Jacob's terminology), they were enthusiastic about trying it themselves!
Before the tram started up, they asked if it would be scary...we told them that we didn't think so, but they could decide. They were too absorbed in the trip to be scared!
The tram operator included in her speal a question directed at the boys "Aren't you excited to see snow up here still? You can go play in it!"
And then we told here where we're from, and she said "Oh-never mind then!" And they didn't seem any more excited about it than we did...considering all the snow has been out of our yard just over a month!
I stayed up on one of the observation decks to get this pic of Mark and the kids. Even though it was cloudy, it was still a beautiful view!
The tram on its way back up...
The lodge and the "docking station" for the trams.
The view on the way back down!
We were very glad we took the opportunity to do this with the kids...we all had a great time, and they're still talking about it. Jacob was telling Aunt Becca about it just the other day
"We flew in the tram up to the castle on the mountain!"
PS: Yes, it was a little clearer when we got back to the campsite, just sprinkling off and on. No, the tent wasn't dry. But we were in good spirits after a fun relaxing day of not enduring kids camping in the rain. Mission accomplished.
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