The wife wants us to go on a snow skiing trip with the kids at the end of March. Being a Florida boy, I know less than nothing about these things and am trying to learn what I can to determine if this is going to be a family trip or a “girls trip” with her and our daughters. I haven’t ever even seen real snow, to put things in perspective. Some specific questions I have:
1) where would you go? Let’s assume a good balance of cost:features, an area where there’s other things to do besides skiing, good for kids, etc.
2) speaking of, I assume we wouldn’t actually be skiing for a full 7 days, right? So what other kinds of things are there to do in such environments?
3) exactly how hard is this going to be? I’m pretty much inactive these days between work and family, so I’m assuming a dexterous activity like this is going to be hard to learn, and probably maddening?
4) We are able to rent everything, right? We don’t have even so much as warm clothes. I’m down to go buy myself a puffy coat, but I’d prefer to rent skis, snow suit (do I need a snow suit), etc.
Any other input, information, or feedback would be great.