Snowboarding 101

Today we went snowboarding with Kurston, Kevin and Stephanie! It was soooo much fun! I went for the first time 4 years ago when Justin and I just started dating. I guess I thought I would be better because I had done it before...but I wasn't! It took me a few trips down the hill with Justin holding onto me to figure it out again. I was thinking Stephanie would be bad because this was her first time, but I was wrong about that also! She zoomed past me on her first try standing up! Now, I will say she was good and getting up and balancing her self to go down the hill, but she SUCKED at stopping. I had told her before we got there that her fanny would be hurting by noon because she would fall on it a lot. But instead, her knees hurt. Her knees hurt because she didn't know how to fall on her butt, she only fell on her knees! And by noon, she was in pain! So we took a break and had some yummy lunch. Twenty minutes later, we were back at it! Kurston had also told me that she wasn't that good, so I assumed we could fall down the hill as a trio, but she managed to do just fine! After an hour of clinging onto Justin, I was able to go down by myself. And.....I quit falling! It was great! However.......this is when the bad part of the day comes in.....I hated the lift! The lift that takes you to the top of the hill! Why can't they just have an escalator! I can barely get on the lift and getting off is pretty much impossible for me. I fell every time! Even with the workers making it go really slow for me! I suck! So the reason it was bad was because I would sit there and dwell on having to get on and of all day. I loved going down the hill, but once I got to the bottom...I just sat there for a few minutes and contemplated weather or not I wanted to be air lifted to the top or just snowboard off the edge into the woods and disappear so that I wouldn't have to get on the lift....... Haha! That's how scary the lift is to me! And Kurston feels the same way! She hates it too! But besides all that, we had a great time! My tailbone hurts and I am really sore! Can't wait till next year!