Going to my Happy Place

Saturday I had two four year old students. We did 3 runs on the bunny hill. Everything went fine. Then we went up the chair lift and got off. Again everything went fine. The first part of the run is a little steep. The little girl I had was having a bit of a struggle. So I had the girl go first so I could help her down. The boy didn't like that, he wanted to go first. But I told him I needed to help the girl. All of a sudden his Head started to hurt. And then he started to cry. I could not figure out what was wrong. I let the boy go first again. It didn't help. He kept on crying down the hill. We got to another steep part. The boy fell and wouldn't try to get up. All he could do was cry and say he wanted to go home. And then the little girl starts to cry! saying here legs hurt. I had a friend help get the boy up. She loosened his goggles, but his head still hurts. And while I am trying to get the girl to come down a snowboarder slides in to her causing her to fall down on his snowboard. Then she really started to cry, saying she wanted to go home. Finally I am able to get them back to ski school and another instructor goes to get my supervisor to figure out what to do because I am supposed to have the boy all day! They are still crying so I just sit down in the snow with the girl on my lap and the boy to my side still crying, and so I start crying! To make a somewhat long story short the two were perfectly fine when the parents came. And I am left with the emotional scars of being the instructor who sat on the snow with her crying students, crying.

So after a day like yesterday I had to go to My Happy Place, my Utopia. Click on this video and let your cares drift away. And experience Utopia yourself. It worked for me.

Mishap #2

Another fantastic day at the resort. I got to go on a couple of runs this morning before my lessons. The snow was great. Untracked Mou Pow!
I had an all day lesson with four students. It was fun shredding it up with the little rippers.
After my lesson I went on a couple of runs with My tele instructor and abunch of Telliers. It seems that mishaps always happen to me such as getting hit in the head with a basketball, snowball or ran over by a chair lift. Well today was another one of those mishaps. We were all skiing the Head wall when one of the guys tried to pass me. In doing so he caught my skiis and swept my feet right out from beneath me. My first real collision. Good thing I was wearing my helmet. Luckily I did not get hurt. But I can't say that much for my skiis. Good thing they were my alpine skiis. I think I would have cried if it were my babies (my telemark skiis). I would have loved having that one on video, might have made best wipe out of the week.

Ann's tele turns

This is me Telemark skiing on one of the few blue bird days at the resort. It was such a great day.

Feb 7, 2008
After my "rough day on the hill" I decided to pamper myself. So I went to the dentist on Wed, for a cleaning. You might all think "pamper yourself at the dentist"? Yes, two times a year I can go to the dentist and have my teeth cleaned and relax with the "gas" aka Nitrous. I have a hard time sitting for very long, but the nitrous makes it so I don't want to leave the dentist chair. I had a thought that it is to bad I can't have it during church. I might not get so antsy, and I'd probably learn alot more

Febuary 8, 2007

Rough Day on the Hill
Today was really rough...............You try and ski in waist deep powder!!!! :)
Ok so I kind of did have it rough. Every time I ski with the younger instructors, I can't keep up with them. Not even on the chair lift. Today I went to get on the chair lift with three young uns. They Hurried to get on the lift instead of waiting for another chair (you know waiting for the next chair ruins your whole day). Any way I was not expecting it so I tried to hurry and get on with them. I didn't make it. I did make it in front of the chair, but it knocked me to the ground and started to drag me along. The only thing for me to do was lie on the ground and let it ride right over me. You know it wouldn't have been so bad but when you have your ski instructor jacket on and you get ran over by the lift...............it is a little embarassing!!!!!!!
Any way I am sure that you all wish I had a picture of this but, I don't.
I kind of wished I had a picture of it too.

Jan 19,2008
2008 is starting off great
Plenty of white stuff, which is what dreams are made of.
What more can I say other than Oh Yaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Pictures coming soon

Christmas 2008

The Christmas Story

Family Pic
I tried to talk them into going outside for a photo.

I was the only one woman (thanks Dan for being man enough to go out and take my pic)
enough to go outside for a really cool sunset pic. They missed out!