skiing in Blue Mountain

Today was a beautiful day and the weather was great. My boss’s family and I decided to go skiing in Blue Mountain. Our plan was to wake up at 7 and leave at 8:30 am. Well, we woke up at 7 am, but we left at 9:30. We were one hour late in leaving the house which was not too bad.

We got to the ski area at 11am. My boss’s younger daughter Peta is just two years old so she wasn’t able to ski, so Vaclav told us that he will watch her, because he was also feeling lazy today and didn’t wish to ski. So Lenka (the mom of the family), and Kaja (her daughter who is 4) and I went for our skies and we set out for the slopes. Once we were on the mountain, Lenka held Kaja because she was afraid to ski.

I left them behind and I had two hours of free skiing wherever I wished. “Where should I start?” I thought. To start I began with an easier hill, and then when I was sure that I really remembered how to ski I went for the harder ones. The snow was perfect – it wasn’t melting or icy – it was just right. I chose the hardest hill and I spent an hour there. It was really great. I met one lonely snowboardist on the chairlift. He asked me if I could go downhill with him. I thought why not, because I think it is more fun with someone than alone, and it was true. It was so much fun! He let me borrow his snowboard for a while. I used to snowboard, but it was long time ago so it took me a while to get the skills back to be able to go down the hill on it. I finally did it and I was so happy that I still remembered it how to snowboard I was beside myself. Then it was time to say bye to him and go back to find Lenka and Kaja.

I found them very easily - they were on the easiest hill. When I got back to them, I promised that I would take Kaja with me and Lenka can go skiing somewhere else. Lenka left and I tried to teach Kaja how to ski. I tried to instruct her the same way my dad did when I was 3 years old. She listened to me carefully and it took just a few minutes before she could turn herself and she went all the way down the hill down. I didn’t even have to hold her. I was so happy that she did it! Then we skiied with her another 2 hours and she started to like it very much. We had great time together. It was so much fun, especially, when we were on the chairlift and she started to yell, that she needs to go pee and "right now!!!!" By this time it was already 5pm so we decided to find Vaclav and Peta and tell them that we were ready to go home. We couldn’t find them, but we found our friend Scott (boyfriend of our Slovak friend Martina). While we were talking, Vaclav found us and told me that he would be waiting in the car. We called Lenka and we explained that we were ready to go home. It was a great day, with tons of shining sun (in fact, I got my face burnt). We were tired on our way home, but it was all worth it.