Spring Break

This year over spring break my family took a trip up to a cabin in Idllywild that belongs to one of my Dad's work friends. We did this maybe 2 spring breaks ago, and it was lots of fun, we had about two feet of snow and Kyle and my Mom and I went sledding and such. This year, it was tad different - Kyle wasn't there, but Scott was, so it was me, my Mom and Dad, my older brother Christopher, and Scott. On Saturday during the day it wasn't snowing yet, so Scott and my Mom and I went for a hike up some big mountain. Here are some pictures from that:





That last one is my favorite - Scott is helping my Mom up the trail...so cute :)

Anyways, the cabin was fun, we got about a foot of snow the last night and so my Mom and Christopher and I went sledding the next day. Scott wouldn't have it - he kept saying how dangerous it was and looking freaked out everytime my Mom or I went hurtling down the hill headfirst. It was strange, really, considering how risky he usually is. But the sledding was definitely fun, although a little bumpier than last time as there wasn't as much snow.

The other fun part of my spring break was trying out two new recipes from my British baking book. I got this baking cookbook at Borders about a year ago for like $10, and it is so awesome! Sometimes I have to look up definitions for the ingredients that the recipes call for (for example: caster sugar = extra fine granulated sugar), but the recipes are very different and the ones I've tried have all been good. So over break I made I a Hazelnut Torte:

And a Linzertorte, which I got to use my cool new zigzag pastry cutter to make:

Overall I guess it was a pretty good break, though it was way too busy and I didn't have enough time to see everyone I wanted to...although that seems to be the case almost every trip. Only about a month until my Mom comes out to Bloomington and then we both fly home to SD a week later :)