After not much sleep last night, we had a very late morning today. The morning rays of an Alaskan February, or lack thereof, didn’t help much either. We made it out of the hotel at the crack of 12:30. We drove over the hill and through some woods to visit Grandmother’s house. Glenn & I enjoyed a lovely visit with Grandma over a Costco meal (hot dogs and cheap pizza). We took advantage of Grandma’s dining room to soak up the sun—another beautiful day here. Grandma noted how the “snow diamonds” sparkled, ice particles that reflect more light than snow powder. To us, however, this just meant that it would hurt more when we fell snowboarding this afternoon. We were right. We left Grandma’s in search of the adventures of the slopes. We went to Hilltop,
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