So, we got a first taste of how we might have been taken in this fabulous too-good-to-be-true vacation package when we arrived at the hot tub after skiing on Saturday to find probably no less than forty or fifty kids plus their accompanying parents stuffed into 4 rather normal size hot tubs. The crowd sort of ebbed and flowed and when we saw our chance we nabbed 4 seats in one hot tub and stayed there for the next hour or so while we talked to some guy from Nevada City, California tell us all about the TED talks he had just been at. Pictured: Alex and Walter, with the legs and feet of other Mammoth Mountain Inn patrons in the background. Luckily, there was no crowd any other night. Once the weekenders had left, we had the spa more or less to ourselves the other nights, even right after the lifts closed.