I forgot to mention...

the fun time that we had tubing while we were in Idaho. The snow was on a north facing slope and it was quite crusty and slick. The tubes literally flew down the hill, giving us quite a thrill! (Hey, that rhymes!) Anyhoo... The stopping point at the bottom of the hill was a nice little muddy patch -- which if you were lucky, you slid over it and onto a little patch of snow so you could get off the tube and remain clean. However, if you didn't hit the mud patch just right, you ended up all muddy. Most of us weren't lucky! Mark, my dad, Randy, and Ryan were especially muddy. John had the snowmobile there to pull us up the hill, so that made things even more fun!