snowboarding
went snowboarding for the very first time this weekend! never been skiing/snowboarding before in my life before this! (ok… so i did go “skiing” when i was 6 at my cousin’s wedding/family reunion. but i was so little and so crappy at it that all i remember was “sledding” on the skis in the flat area by the ski lodge and drinking hot chocolate with my mom after getting bored)
fun: driving up and stopping at all the sporting goods stores along the way in search of ski pants. snowboarding class (came as a packaged deal)… the instructor was pretty patient and had good tips. unfortunately, he couldn’t do much in helping me learn how to execute his tips but eh, whatever. we saw one of the other classes going at the same time where they were learning to go across the mountain and weeeeeeeirdly, the instructor was behind one of the students gliding with her and holding her up. it was pretty funny to see.
no fun: ski lifts…. every single time that we got off the ski lift, i fell. and not just gracefully, like take out everyone and anyone on the ski lift with me. i kept gliding left for some strange reason and each time, i ended up sitting on the rightmost seat so i ended up cutting across everyone right as we got off and then falling right in their paths. the other boo thing is that i don’t normally get sore… but today, my neck just ached so badly! it’s gotten to the point where i use my arms to lower or raise my head since my neck just hurts so much when i try to use it. bah, a few times now i’ve actually dropped by head by accident because i didn’t realize the wall was behind me. idiot.
so… anyone up for curling?! there’s a curling open house in the DC area this thursday, saturday, and sunday. man! the olympics are so coool, always makes me want to go try to do those things i see on tv! on the drive up to the ski place, i was listening to nbc’s olympic theme song
February 23rd, 2006 at 4:02 pm
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