Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. weekend o' fun

With today off from school, my friends and I were able to enjoy a nice long weekend away from campus. Ginger's parents so kindly invited us up to a mountain-side place they rented at Winter Park Resort so we could go skiing all weekend. Ginger was able to take me, and three other of our friends, Sorry, Smiley, and Wallace. Ginger's brother and his friends were there as well, so we got to ski with them, too. Out of all of us, only Ginger, her brother and his friends, and I had skied before (Smiley had been snowboarding several times). So Sorry and Wallace had to learn how!

Saturday was our first day and Sorry, Smiley, and Wallace took lessons while Ginger and I shredded the upper part of the mountain with her brother et al. Since Ginger loves glades ("tree skiing"), I was forced into a lot of them... and it turns out I like it! The trees are like one big maze you have to get through, but with bumps and sometimes rocks. There was this one run that took us half and hour and completely kicked my ass. (Thank goodness I had a warm-up day at A-Basin on Friday with Uncle T!) It was amazing though!!! The level of difficulty really made me want to get so much better so I could just rip through it someday. I continued to push myself for the rest of the weekend and definitely felt like I was improving :)

Yesterday Ginger and I tried to teach Sorry and Wallace how to ski ourselves, since they told us how much they loved it on Saturday. BIG MISTAKE on our part! We had no idea the level they were still at (um, they didn't even learn how to turn yet. kinda important!!) so we took them up to some greens that were still way too difficult. It was a challenging hour for sure: we tried to explain how to turn, tried to teach them about their skis, tried to keep their spirits up when they kept falling because of our directions, and tried not to get frustrated with each other. 

By midday, we were ready for lunch and a break, during which we laughed at all our stupidity on the mountains (I even fell trying to teach Sorry how to turn). In the afternoon, Ginger and I tired ourselves out by hitting up Mary Jane, where the most difficult trails on the whole mountain are.

In the evening, we watched the Golden Globes and then had a good night's sleep. We meant to go skiing this morning, but sideways snow and wicked winds kept us off the slopes. Instead, we got back to DU early and now have plenty of time to rest, unpack, and get ready for chapter.


xxo, S