Pocono Pines

This weekend was my first trip to the Pocono Mountains. I am lucky enough to have very generous friends from Chicago that allowed us to stay at their PA getaway in the Poconos. Thanks Steph and Tim! Their house is wonderful and perfectly secluded in Pocono Pines. Everything had a billowy layer of freshly fallen snow and it was beautiful.

This is Chip. We were not equipped with proper snowman making accessories so we used what we could find in Bill's Jeep. Chip's buttons are water and soda bottle caps (and one motor oil cap). The scarf is a bunch of bungie cords; the mouth is a red Twizzler; the nose is a paint brush and the eyes are chocolate chip cookies. Not too bad, huh?

On Sunday Bill, Cara, Wayne and myself went snow tubing at Big Boulder. Let it be said that when snow tubing with friends it is all about "speed" and "distance". The folks at the mountain make it so easy too. You don't even have to walk back up, they have a tow line that you hook your tube onto and it takes you right back up the hill. That's the tow line in the picture above bringing us back up.

The snow tubes are for single riders, but you can lash as many tubes together as you want, we decided that connecting all four of us together would provide optimal "speed" and "distance"... Yep, we were right! Note: mine is the red tube, in front, how convenient, thanks a lot guys!

At the bottom of the mountain was this little brook, it was so beautiful and really got me excited for the beginning of spring- only 17 more days...

During our short weekend in the Poconos, we visited many local shops and found lots of candles, copper art and best of all... cheesecake. I will end on that note! Yum!

Thanks again to Steph and Tim who let us stay at their awesome getaway.