Today started before the sun woke up. The alarm went off at 6 am and it was snowing outside!! The driveway and car was covered in snow and we actually had to scrape the windows. Our flight was at 8:00 am but we had to drive 30 miles in the snow without crashing, fill-up the tank, return the rental, check-in our bags, and get through security. Luckily we made it and the crappy Cobalt got us there safely. The snow was so awesome. It made me so sad that we had to leave. The mountain today would have been even better than yesterday.

Once we boarded, the captain announced that there wasn’t enough visibility to take off. So, we actually had to sit on the plane (at the gate) for another 30 mins. For some reason, it wasn’t bad. We watched the beginning of Superman Returns on Jes’ laptop and when it was time to take off, we got to watch the plane get de-iced by a dude in a contraption with a big hose to spray the de-icing solution. I must say it was quite entertaining to watch the snow melt right off. Call me a simpleton but watching the snowplows on the runway was really cool too.

The flight from Vail to Denver was short (minus all the weather waiting) and we didn’t miss our connection. In fact, we had another hour and a half to kill so we had some steak sandwiches and I wandered around taking some photos. On our two-hour flight from Denver was uneventful and we were home by 1 pm.

I had a three and a half day weekend and the Colorado snow did not disappoint afterall.  Here are the photos.