well it's almost 9 in the morning and i just got home from sunny corner. I have to work 10 to 4 but after that i can do whatever the hell i want. I think i will end up staying in tonight and nurse my bruises. For the most part i'm not too sore for the day after a whole day of snowboarding and skiing. For some reason the boots that crabbe had (these were step in bindings which were wired too tight and i was trapped on my board most of the time) had a really tight ankle brace which was straining the tendents or muscle or something in my left claf only. Since this leg is also my forward or downhill leg it sucked shit cause that leg has WAY more work to do. So i'm carvin it up down the hill and half way down i have to flop, try and take my foot half way out of the boot and go AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH cause it's was burning and ripping my leg apart. But i was bound and determined to practice my new art of snoboarding so i had a few mroe runs like this and said "fuck it i know i can snowboard so what the hell is there left to prove to myself? nothing..." so i boarded down the hill and didn't stop until i was right infront of the rental shop. I was like "gimmie skiis". ( i have only ever skiied once in my life and it was for 5 hours and i was 12...it was also at sugarloaf CAN) So I'm putting the friggin robot lookin boots on and i'm thinking not only do i know how to ski anymore i dont even know how to get these boots on. And what am i supposed to do with my poles when i go on the pony tow up the bunny hill? Well i just pretended i knew what i was doing and before you knew it i was infront of the shop trying to cross country ski with these things up a hill. I felt like i had duck legs. So i finally make it to the bunny hill and i have NO idea how to work ANYTHING. So i'm sloshing all around and trying to use each ski as if it were a snowboard on each foot, like the carving effect. This is not how skis work....at....all. By the time i reached the top i had almost knocked 3 five year olds down. Oh well i got off the thing and i didn't know how to move out of the way. So i pointed myself down hill and took off like a mother fucker. Half way down i remembered how to snow plow for brakes. This was really good. So i did that but i still couldn't turn because i was trying to carve like a snowboard. So after ross and mary jane took off down a real hill and i had to follow half way down i figured out how to turn so it was all good. And i hadn't even fell once yet. Ross and MJ were on snowboards so i had to wait up for them while they knocked themselves silly against the snow and ross found a new found appretiation for my determination to conquer the snowboard. So anyways we all finally get going on a good stretch and i decide to yell 'look at me i'm a snow bunnieeeeee" and theat when all the snow came out from underneath me and i fell on my ass but kept going on the friggin skii's. Ross tols me later that i just looked like a set of knees strapped to some skii's zooming down the hill. Oh well i finally got myself stopped but those things are WAY harder to get back up on than a snowboard. So in the end i had to use my pole to poke in the ground and climb up them. That was the only time i fell on skii's so i was pretty proud of myself.

Oh and what was really funny was that the chair lifts were 4 person and there were only 3 of us so a stranger would get on everytime. HAHAHA cause ross and MJ would always fall gvetting off and i would be able to stand cause i was on skii's but sometimes we would almost wipe the stranger out. Good times.. Also the ski patrol rode with us once and were trying to teach us some pointers cause they didn't wanna pick s up on a taboggan in 15 minutes. Nice guys, really social. There were kids everywhere cause the schools get to ski all the time down there. There were some exchange student there and one girl said hi to me and i was like your from australia. And she's like yeah. and i told her about my trip and i knew her accent was from somewhere around where i was and it turns out that she lived in Woggawogga which in NSW which is the state below the one i was in but their accents are similar. Anyways thats not a good story. But there was liek 40 year old lady on the bunny hill tow ride trying to learn how to ski and she couldn't get off the tow and so she fell on her ass but didn't let go and she was being dragged right into the machine lol and she finally let go and it looked like her legs were broken cause she was all so tangled. The funny part was is that she turned around and looked at me as if she wasn't on her ass and looking stupid. It was one of those "what are you looking at nothing to see here i didn't fall looks" so i pissed myself laughing. She also fell like a camel on ice at the bottom of the bunny hill. I wonder who she was there with....cause who ever it was must have left her there by herself.

All in all crabee is only 3 hours away and it';s an awesoime ski hill,.... not so much for boarding though cause there is a lot of board walking you have to do and that sucks if you hate undoing your back binding. The hills that you can just board onto the lift are awesome. I recommend Val d'irene for that. But if you wanna ski Crabbe is awesome. I think ross and i are going to go back next year.

Krista Experienced Paradise at 8:59 AM
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