Skiiing!

Arielle and I were invited by a family from the chapel to go skiing with them today. Arielle and I have never really done skiing, but we were both game.

It was a lot of fun! I don't have any pictures...I meant to take my camera but forgot. It was raining most of the day, but we don't mind rain! lol Mr. D took us to the top of the bunniest bunny hill and showed us how to do everything. I went down and didn't fall! Arielle almost made it, but she decided to stay on the bunny hill for a while.

There was hardly anybody out there to worry about running into, except for the crazy snowboarders who would be flipping all over the slope! I jumped onto the ski lift (nearly knocked the other person off). From the top of the next slope I tried going down and didn't fall again. I was happy! We skied for a couple of hours and then got some lunch. Hot ramen soup tastes soooooo good after skiing for several hours!

While we had been eating, a fog had started to roll in. It got to the point where, on the ski lift, you could only see the cart in front of you. IT was sooo extremely foggy! And that was when I started to crash. I fell around 4 times the whole day, and it was during this time! The fog really did make it hard to see. On my last run there were people lying all over the floor and so I did some fancy maneuvering!

There were a bunch of trees that I kept trying to steer through...I almost had it twice, but each time I crashed epically. Mrs. D pulled up and said, "I really wish I had a camera!" one ski was sticking straight up in the ground, both poles were scattered here and there. And I was lying face first.

Alicia and I were going down the middle of the main slope (we both decided to stop trying to swerve through the trees). She nearly fell and said something to that extent while we were going down; I looked back to congratulate her on not falling, when I lost my balance and fell. It was foggy...we couldn't see anything, but we could hear the sound of snowboards and whatnot zipping all around. And then the snowboarders came! It was a wild few moments on the ground, with both skis scattered, one pole was about thirty feet down the slope, while the other was like thirty feet up the slope.

Arielle and I both had a blast! I'm really tired and I'm sure I'm going to be sore in the morning, but it was worth it!