Mietzke's Holden Adventure

Yesterday was another stop day, which means it's like a holiday, every one including the kitchen staff have the day off. They put out food fixin’s last night after dinner, and we were all on our own for meals today.
Ang and I had planned to go hiking today because the kids still have school and we would have the whole day to play. Nyrie stayed home from school Wednesday with flu symptoms, she still wasn’t feeling well this morning, so Ang decided to stay home with her. I decided to go on a short hike and come back for lunch with the family.
I decided to go up to Copper Basin, it’s fairly steep but short hike up, and a real pretty (as if it’s not real pretty every where up here) vista once you get there. The conditions were abysmal; the trail was an ice chute from railroad creek all the way up. I struggled up to the second level and then half way up to the third level I ended up putting on my snow shoes just to have the traction offered by the crampons. As soon as I could I got off the beaten (and icy) path. It was much easier off the trail on the snow shoes. Once I got to the basin it was well worth the effort. I dug a seat on the side hill, and sat back and just relaxed for about a half hour. I wished I had thought to bring a book along, next time I’ll remember. On the way back down I walked out on the third level tailings, called Ang on the radio and told her to go out on the porch so I could wave to her.
When I got home I discovered that Nyrie was feeling much better, but Ang was down for the count. She had the living room up to 80 degrees and was huddled under three blankets. She spent most of the afternoon that way, and then she got a little loopy. I couldn’t make sense of what she was saying. I woke her up and put her in a warm bath. That and some ibuprofen seemed to do the trick. She perked back up and was able to have a little dinner and pack and prepare for her week in North Vancouver. I think I’m going to sleep on the couch tonight.
Jordyn was great this evening, we had planned to barbeque with some of the other families for dinner. Since Ang was feeling so bad, I decided to stay at the chalet with her. Jordy took our chicken breasts to the barbeque and ran all of our errands for the evening.
Nyrie was a great comfort to her mom all day, caring for her and just snuggling up with her and watching movies. She was running back and forth all afternoon with cold rags for Ang’s forehead, or a hot compress for her chest.
It was great to see the whole family caring for Angela while she was out of commission.