Snowboarding: CHECK!

One more item completed from my To-Do List Before Leaving Utah!  

And it was SOOO FUN!! I am so hooked.  It hurt, and actually after a whole week my tailbone is still in pain if I sit down for a long time. Ha!  (Not broken, dont worry, just a little bit overused haha)

Oh my gosh, I have NEVER FALLEN SO MUCH in my life! Yet I have never had so much fun doing it!  HA I seriously laughed almost every time!!!  Well, Until I got myself into a foot of powder into some grove of trees...now, imagine this:  

Your feet are about hip width apart, strapped to this board that is almost as tall as you are.  (well, about 8 inches shorter than you)  You don't know how to control this thing yet, and the only way you can learn is by just doing it.  So you get on, and you expect it to move down the mountain.  You have to wiggle a little bit to get it going, and then it just makes sense by the law of physics to point the board down.  Right?  Like going down a slide.  But you know, snow actually gets you moving pretty fast.  So pretty soon you are careening down, forward, and whichever way the front of the board is pointing, and sometimes it points every which way, cause it takes some skill to make it point where you want it to point while you are careening down a mountain at about 30 mph.  And then before you know it, you get scared at your speed and you put your hands out to stop you and lean forward, and then you land on your stomach and your legs naturally continue to whip forward, until they reach your back, or your head, or whatever is in front of them.  (Good thing I used to be a dancer haha!) 

and then at some point you end up on this trail you probably shouldn't be on, and its like a mile wide but of course you slide uncontrollably to the far right and sail into a grove of trees with about a foot of fresh powder in the midst.  Haha, oh man how are you gonna get out of this one?  Well, your feet are strapped to some board (which, might I add, as a newbie, its really hard to unstrap and restrap those things, so you keep the board on...but you can't just get up and walk out of the trees, because of the board, so you sit on your bottom and scoot yourself forward inch by inch with your legs and arms.  And when that gets tiring, you get on your hands and knees and move forward--kind of like a dog with its hind legs tied together.  

OH BUT IT WAS SO FUN!! PLEASE LETS DO IT AGAIN!!