Deer Valley celebrity encounter

On Saturday we went skiing (once again, I know) with our friends the Hendersons. We scored some amazingly cheap tickets to Deer Valley (thanks to Carine and Randall) and decided to take the last chance to ski this season. It was an amazing day despite the winds in the first part of it and slushy snow towards the end. What made this day out of ordinary is that we've come across Dr. Rey, his wife Hayley and their kids!!! Anybody who watches Dr. 90210 knows exactly who Dr. Rey is.

This was so cool! I've noticed that almost every time we go to Deer Valley we see a celebrity. Wow! We actually had to chase them around before we've built up the courage to ask them for a picture. We first saw Hayley out the window while we were having lunch in the Silver Lake Lodge and we ran outside to ask her for a picture. She disappeared into the store and we stood outside for good 15 min before actually realizing she came out of a different exit. Then Randall saw her in another store and to our surprise Dr. Rey was there too! Poor Dave stayed behind in the lodge watching our stuff while Carine and I, like a couple of 15 year-olds, were running from store to store trying to take a picture with celebrities and Randall was our cameramen. It was worth it though. They happened to be very nice people and even had a conversation with us.
The rest of the day went smoothly on the slopes. The winds calmed down and the view of beautiful Deer Valley down below was breathtaking.


What a fun day!

Alex likes to have fun!

My AeroGarden experience

For Christmas I received AeroGarden from Dave. If you know me at all, this was the best gift I could possibly get (well, actually I can think of a couple more...). So I planted tomatoes, dill and cilantro on the 25th of December and 1 week later this is what I had. Tomatoes (and dill) actually sprouted!

3 weeks old. They're growing fast! Who knew? Cilantro didn't ever grow...

Seedlings are 4 weeks old. I planted some dill with the tomatoes although I wasn't supposed to. I figured we'll eat it before tomatoes choke it out because they're going to get big it seems.


About 7 weeks old, tomatoes are flowering. Seems like so far this "garden" is working.

This is 8 weeks from the planting date. Tomatoes are really starting to show up and flowering like crazy.

Apparently, it works! This is my tomatoes 12 weeks after planting. So now I'm just waiting for them to ripen. If anyone doubts the validity of this expensive toy, look at my results! I think anyone who is capable of adding water to a container can grow these. No green thumb required!