Oh I am crazy hurting today!! I just got back into town from snowboarding, and I think I outdone myself this time… Every muscle in my body is hurting quite bad, and especially my tailbone! My arm muscles and legs, hurts at every move… Why am I hurting so bad? Well we went to Niskiska yesterday for a day on the hills, and I was geared up and everything. Before we even hit the mountains, it was RAINING! So when we got to the parking lot, it was all muddy, and I was walking around in my SNOWpants in mud! And then we had to wait for about 1 hour in the tech shop so we can see if they can fix my bindings, because I snapped it off last time I went boarding. The tech guy who fixed my binding said he was gonna charge us $20, but when we went to go pay, the cashier was like, no… that doesn’t cost anything, so I got my bindings fixed for free! Bonus! We went boarding with my church group, and it was awesome. At some point in the day, we all actually made a run down the hill together. My brother went boarding too, and it was really awesome and encouraging to see him push himself out of his limit areas.

But on the first run down the hill, it was all slushy and goopy, there was no powder, and so when I fell the first or second time, I landed on my tailbone again and injured it pretty good. But I still made it down the hill. Because it was so slushy, my snowpants got wet, so it kinda numbed my tailbone for a while, and I pushed myself so good yesterday that I did about 6-7 runs, and I sored out my muscles. I’m so proud of myself, I can do blue runs now, but I still need to learn how to carve… just a couple of more times to go!

We stayed overnight in the Banff area, and the place was really nice… we had our own kitchen, fireplace, eating area, etc. We also went for dinner yesterday, and it was really really good… it was finer dining, and the food was well worth the trip. Have you ever tried grilled shrimp with slices of mango and palm leaves? The most exquisite taste I’ve had! Everything was delicious even down to the dessert. Yummy!

I think I’m almost completely healed of that infection I had, because last week Sunday, I was feeling really crappy still, and I had that horrible horrible cough. I still have the mucus cough, but I don’t cough as much anymore. BONUS! I’m going to try to get fully healed.

BTW, I was just watching the news… did you hear of the earthquake that hit Japan this morning???