mt high w kat
i never thought i’d go boarding with kathy… every time i mentioned it to her, she always acted like she’d never ever wanna go boarding again! but this time, i had some extra vouchers and i invited her to go and told her i’d stick with her the whole day making sure she’d get her confidence back again....
so here we are all excited and ready to go up the mountain… you can’t really tell but we’re wearing sweatshirts and jackets and by the end of the first run, we realize that we may have on too many layers of clothing… after a couple more runs, we decide to sit there and watch the jump contest they’re doing… and then we ended up signing up for the “dash for swag” contest, where they put a whole buncha free ‘swag’ on the top of the jump, they drew a line in the snow, and had us race UP the mountain for free shirts, sweatshirts, belts, etc…
the dude in charge promised me that there’d be enough swag for everyone who signed up, but the first, second, and third place winners thought that they deserved more than one prize for being the first up the hill that they grabbed all the stuff… i still made it up there, though, and was sorely disappointed while trying to suck air into my lungs. geez, we already had gotten winded just walking up to the slopes, and then we ran up the snow in boots? craziness!!!
when i got back down to where the main booth was, i pointed at the guy in charge and said, “you lied!! there was nothing for me up there!” and so he tossed me a mt high shirt. kat was there too, so i said, “hey, she didn’t get one either!” and he tossed her one too…
so here we are in our mt high shirts:
we boarded like this for the rest o’ the day cuz it was that warm, and i made kat go over the jumps, and then by the end of the day she was actually jumping! doing small stuff, but still… it was fun =) she even went thru the half-pipe and down a black diamond, so it was pretty awesome.
kat conquered the mountain!!
it was a good day… i even was able to do a 180! =) hahaha… good stuff =)
oh, and the best part (if you’re a nerd like me!) was that we saw darth vader there! skiing down the mountain! hell yeah!!! check it out!
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