As you probably know by now, Britton and I like to take walks and bike rides to stay active here in Colorado. In the winter, our desire to be outside decreases dramatically as the weather turns cold, grey, snowy and/or windy. Living in Colorado you’d think we would be ski-bums, but skiing and/or snowboarding is a full-day commitment (need to wake up at 4am to get to most of the mountain towns on time) and pretty expensive for just a day pass. Plus I just don’t really like cold weather sports that much. I tend to gravitate toward the lodge for hot cocoa and a warm fire.

Some days it is nice enough around here that we can get outside and do some fun activities on the weekends, but during the work week now that the time has changed, it is dark (and therefore extra cold) before we even get home from work.

So we were trying to think of something we could do together this winter to stay active. In the past we have taken salsa dancing lessons, walked around indoor plazas and have done push-ups, sit-ups and treadmill walking/jogging in our house, but we were trying think of something new and engaging.

One day we said, “Why not try the Wii?” We knew that they had gone down in price since they first came out a couple of years ago and that we could get it for even less if we looked on Craigslist. Sure enough, we found a Wii with the balance board, extra remotes and numchucks and four games for $100! Not bad for something that would have been about $600 new!

So we have been playing it just about every night since we got it three weeks ago. We are getting a lot better at it! On the Wii Fit game we really like the balance games like this soccer head-butt game. I also like the yoga and aerobics games too.

We also got Wii Sports Resort and so we turn on the fireplace and turn on some tropical music and then we can go wake-boarding, cruising, ping ponging and more at a tropical resort all in the comfort of our basement. I guess it will have to do until we go back to the real thing! 🙂