Thursday, January 1, 2009

Trying to be a Snow Bunny!

Nate recently got a new toy. Can you guess what it is?! Well yep its a Snowmobile. SO . . . before I said he could buy it, I told him there would be some terms and conditions. Here are the terms:

  1. Every other time that he goes, I get to go.
  2. For the same amount of time. (some exceptions.)
  3. One time this winter we will go skiing.
  4. Three times this summer we will go camping. ( REAL Camping!)

So the day after Christmas, we went night skiiing up at Bogus. First of all we both rented snowboards from Idaho Watersports, BIG Mistake! (Keep in mind that the only time I have been on a ski hill was about 10 years ago and only once.) How was I suppose to know wether I wanted skiis or a snowboard? Since all my sisters and brother all snowboard, and I wakeboard, I thought it wouldn't be bad, and I wanted to try to something different. ( I always gotta try something different) SO we get there and the first thing that I totally forgot about was the chair lift. I am terrifed of heights. Especially the chair lift! Its moving and your not strapped in and your clear up in the air! K well I got over that. But the first run was terrible! It probably took 2 hours to get down the hill 3 times. I couldn't stear, or stop or control the board. And I kept crashing because I would get going so fast that I thought I would fly off the mountain so I would crash instead. It definetly was not what I remembered the first time. After those 3 runs, I had had enough and I rented some skiis. Usually I don't quit that easy, but WOW! After CRASHING so many times, and with freezing weather, I was done. I do have to say. I was a good little ski bunny for only this being the second time. I didn't fall or crash once, once I got some skiis. We even went up the bigger hill on the bigger chair lift. And it was FUN! Until Nate ate it really bad and THOUGHT he BROKE his collar bone. It swelled up pretty bad, but he's ok. He just bruised his Clavical really bad. Thanks honey for following through on one of the terms, And for a wonderful evening. He even said we could go again! Yah! I also forgot my camera, so sorry no pictures this time.

2 comments:

Melissa Voss said...

I guess it's a lie when people say that snow boarding is easier than skiing eh? The whole crashing thing because you are going too fast... that's hat I did he one time I went skiing. LOL. Sounds like you had fun.

Boyd Fam said...

Thats what happeded to me the first time I tried snowboarding!! NOT FUN!!

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