{"id":10151,"date":"2025-03-03T19:51:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T03:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=10151"},"modified":"2025-03-03T19:51:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T03:51:37","slug":"ski-amigos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2025\/03\/03\/ski-amigos\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a1Ski Amigos!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Now that I&#8217;ve finally gotten the blog train rolling, let&#8217;s keep the momentum going!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the last three days of Bellarmine&#8217;s appropriately named Ski Week, I headed up to Tahoe with Finn &amp; his pals Malachy and Leo (a teenaged human, not a beloved old stuffed lion). Our 48-hour whirlwind featured donut-shop refueling, ironic pogo stick acquisition, and way too much hip hop (&#8220;Not nearly enough&#8221; \u2014 Finn, probably :-)).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/xFVLYcJuXcnDtUyXA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"592\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ski-Amigos-1-1024x592.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ski-Amigos-1-1024x592.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ski-Amigos-1-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ski-Amigos-1-768x444.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ski-Amigos-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Finn hadn&#8217;t skied in two years, and prior to that he&#8217;d been out for lessons just twice as a tiny dude\u2014first at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jnack\/albums\/72157632934269199\/\">age 5<\/a> and then at <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/t52d65dn4VVkS1oh6\">age 10<\/a>. Thus I was genuinely impressed at the rapid progress he made over two days, as you can see in the video below &amp; in our <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/xFVLYcJuXcnDtUyXA\">gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sierra Finnster\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EwQ2W89R1ec?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Honestly it&#8217;s not <em>that<\/em> far to get up to Tahoe, so we&#8217;re hoping for many snowy returns!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ski-Amigos-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ski-Amigos-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ski-Amigos-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ski-Amigos-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ski-Amigos-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"921\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ski-Amigos-3-1024x921.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ski-Amigos-3-1024x921.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ski-Amigos-3-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ski-Amigos-3-768x691.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ski-Amigos-3-1536x1382.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ski-Amigos-3-2048x1843.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ski-Amigos-3-1200x1080.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Ski-Amigos-3-1980x1781.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I&#8217;ve finally gotten the blog train rolling, let&#8217;s keep the momentum going! 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