Oh, the Excitement!

Last night was the first practice that we were able to make it down to since the season started. Whitney was SO excited to be back on the slopes again. Things didn't go super smoothly though. The main coach hurt his knee earlier in the season. I kind of had to laugh at that one, it's mid-December and the last few years she wasn't even on the slopes yet but now we're a couple of weeks into the season so there was an "earlier in the season" for the coach to get hurt. Hope you feel better soon, Scott! Anyway, Scott's hurt, there was supposed to be a sub coach there but there were communication problems. A coach finally showed up about 20 minutes late and practice got going. Tonight she's feeling a bit under the weather. She really wanted to go but realized that she wouldn't make it through practice.

Last night we got down there early enough for a few warm up runs before practice was supposed to start, just enough for a reminder to the muscles on how they were supposed to work on snow. Once practice started, the joy began. She told me after that she was so happy to be back snowboarding again. This is one daughter I expect to move away after high school, either for college or to work, and I'll be visiting her in either New England or the West (Colorado probably). She loves the cold, the snow, winter days, snowboarding, and won't be happy living somewhere where these things are out of reach.

Now the hard work begins with the goal of an invite to Nationals again in March. Looking forward to our Colorado vacation!

Snow Even Here Now

We've had a pretty good cold spell that has included ice and snow, even here at our house. All the local ski areas opened the weekend after Thanksgiving this year, then closed for the week, opened last weekend and are going strong now. We've had enough cold that they could make a lot of snow, then we had a couple of good storms come through bring more of the natural stuff.

Practice has already started, at least on the weekends. Weeknight practices start next week so we'll be making the long drive starting then. We're planning on spending a lot of time at the ski slopes over Christmas break. There's plenty of snow now and I'm sure there's more to come since it doesn't look like we'll be getting out of this really cold snap anytime soon.