What time is it?
Well I'm still having trouble with the jet lag - I was up and doing school paperwork before 7am this morning and then sleeping at 1pm.
Anyway, it's time to write about my trip.
I had a great time - I didn't ski as many challenging runs as I would normally do, I was with C and she can't ski the tougher runs and I hate to ski alone so we went at her pace.
There was plenty of snow and plenty of sun which is a good balance, although there was some rain and quite a lot of heavy cloud - the last day skiing was cut short cos we couldn't see more than twenty feet in front of us which is a little dangerous.
After eight years, I reached a goal I'd been promising myself - I took a day to learn how to snowboard. it was great fun and I'm glad I did it but if I do it again I'll do it different. The instructor went too quickly, trying to put too much into the day and this meant that we spent a lot of time falling and getting annoyed - I gained my first snow-related injuries in about 7 years, I have a sprained thumb and a sore back, the thumb was from falling off of a chair lift and the sore back was from C ploughing into me when I was on the ground and my back took the full force of her weight through the edge of her board. I want to try it again cos I couldn't do it and I like a challenge - perhaps several short lessons rather than one long one.
I did feel guilty for cheating on my skis with a snowboard, but we've made up now!
Also went to my first ice hockey game (in fact my first professional sporting event) - that was fun too albeit confusing, I still don't understand all that went on other than the local team, the Calgary Flames beat the Phoenix Coyotes. My only complaint was how sticky the floor was! I think that years of spilt beer has turned the floor into fly paper.
Banff was just a beautiful as I remembered and the people just as warm. As ever I ate too much, but didn't drink too much - booze and skis don't mix.
The only sad point was that a guy died while we were there, in fact we were present around his death - the guys son fell through the ice on the frozen river and the guy went in after him, he got the kid out, but sixty seconds (only 60 seconds) in sub-zero water gave the guy a heart attack and he died there on the ice. C and I were walking along the river when we came upon the scene just as the emergency services arrived - I think it was already too late then.
I feel really relaxed now and am looking forward to seeing the kids in school again - the trip made me realise again what a great thing skiing is, so when I get back I'm going to start the prep for a school ski trip next year.
I have 50+ photos from the trip (mostly of snowy mountains), I may post a couple soon.
Right now I'm going to try to go to bed to see if I can get my body clock back on track.
Anyway, it's time to write about my trip.
I had a great time - I didn't ski as many challenging runs as I would normally do, I was with C and she can't ski the tougher runs and I hate to ski alone so we went at her pace.
There was plenty of snow and plenty of sun which is a good balance, although there was some rain and quite a lot of heavy cloud - the last day skiing was cut short cos we couldn't see more than twenty feet in front of us which is a little dangerous.
After eight years, I reached a goal I'd been promising myself - I took a day to learn how to snowboard. it was great fun and I'm glad I did it but if I do it again I'll do it different. The instructor went too quickly, trying to put too much into the day and this meant that we spent a lot of time falling and getting annoyed - I gained my first snow-related injuries in about 7 years, I have a sprained thumb and a sore back, the thumb was from falling off of a chair lift and the sore back was from C ploughing into me when I was on the ground and my back took the full force of her weight through the edge of her board. I want to try it again cos I couldn't do it and I like a challenge - perhaps several short lessons rather than one long one.
I did feel guilty for cheating on my skis with a snowboard, but we've made up now!
Also went to my first ice hockey game (in fact my first professional sporting event) - that was fun too albeit confusing, I still don't understand all that went on other than the local team, the Calgary Flames beat the Phoenix Coyotes. My only complaint was how sticky the floor was! I think that years of spilt beer has turned the floor into fly paper.
Banff was just a beautiful as I remembered and the people just as warm. As ever I ate too much, but didn't drink too much - booze and skis don't mix.
The only sad point was that a guy died while we were there, in fact we were present around his death - the guys son fell through the ice on the frozen river and the guy went in after him, he got the kid out, but sixty seconds (only 60 seconds) in sub-zero water gave the guy a heart attack and he died there on the ice. C and I were walking along the river when we came upon the scene just as the emergency services arrived - I think it was already too late then.
I feel really relaxed now and am looking forward to seeing the kids in school again - the trip made me realise again what a great thing skiing is, so when I get back I'm going to start the prep for a school ski trip next year.
I have 50+ photos from the trip (mostly of snowy mountains), I may post a couple soon.
Right now I'm going to try to go to bed to see if I can get my body clock back on track.
posted by nykk at 8:35 PM
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