I have felt this kind of pain before, but this time it’s different. I decided to go on a ski trip this weekend to Aspen Snowmass and it was a great time. Just after I stopped, I was already in major pain.

On Saturday morning, we arrived at Two Creeks lodge where everyone went on the slopes. I was the only one renting equipment so I had to venture out on the slopes myself during the morning. I decided to rent a snowboard instead of skis partly because it seemed that most of our group was snowboarding instead of skiing. And it looks more fun. Skiing probably would have been easier to try but I felt venturous. Ha. Let’s just say I did more picking myself up and carrying the board than I actually snowboarded. There was one point where I was going super fast and had the boarding down. However, I never learned out to stop properly. Todd told me that I should take lessons before I try but I first didn’t want to pay the money and second no one would have come with me. Oh well. :)

Well, after I made my way up to the top of the first ski lift, I decided I was gonna just stand and sit around to see if I could find anyone I knew. No doubt that it was like waiting in Times Square to meet someone that had no idea you were going to meet them. So that was a lost cause. I finally decided to go find a green path (the easiest one). Well, because the green wasn’t very steep, I couldn’t get a start very easily. It was slow going. I finally ran into some Blue paths and they were much easier to run because of the steeper slopes. But stopping was a constant problem that I almost never learned. It took me quite a while to stop most of the time.

After being late for lunch (and everyone knew I was going to be late because I let someone know by cell phone call) I wanted to try it out once more. Probably not a great idea since I was already tired. So I went out with two girls and after about 30 minutes, I decided they should go on and I’d go back down. Well, I was at a point where I didn’t know how to get down. So after walking 100 feet up a hill for 45 minutes to a lift, I took it down. I was the only one going down on the lift! It was rather amusing. So that pretty much sums up my skiing/snowboarding experience.

The best part of the trip for me was that night we went to Glenwood Springs Hot Springs for the hot springs pool. It was wonderful just sitting there in heated water in the freezing cold weather. I highly recommend it after a long, hard day of skiing.

And now the pain is just throbbing like there’s no end. I took some Aleve but it’s still very present. Bring on the drugs!!