The long weekend’s big adventure is a ski trip with the local church. We left late afternoon for a long drive up to our primitive cabin. Unfortunately the weather turned very nasty, lots of blowing snow and ice on the highway. Mom found it a rather challenging driving experience. Still, we arrived without incident at a gas station plaza at the turn off from the highway to a local road. They had some very nice meat snacks there. After verifying everyone had made it, we drove another half hour or so to the cabin. This had three rooms of bunk beds and two bathrooms. Two bunk sets were designated for boys and one for girls, but the bathrooms were split evenly. We all used sleeping bags because there were no sheets for the beds (I think next time, bringing some sheets might not be a bad idea, although I would still bring a sleeping bag).
The big change for us was that movies are no longer such a big deal while driving with all three kids having Nintendo DS games. The three of them slept and gamed most of the way up, with just a bit of movie watching.