Snowshoe Weekend!

This weekend was all about Snowshoe!!!

I was off Friday and had time to go to Sports Authority to get some knee pads (since I messed up my knee last snowboarding trip) and a stomp pad for David. This is the picture of it.

5 hour drive from Northern Virginia to West Virginia, over a lot of winding roads, through some deer infested woods and along the edges of some pretty steep mountains. Sounds like fun, eh? It is when you have an awesome driver and AWD to back you up :) That was a scary drive though...Diana, Sunny, Erik and Dorsa all left early Friday morning so they missed the snowfall and the ice that accumulated on the winding roads through the mountains. David and I left at 4 pm but we also hit traffic so that delayed us a bit.

At one point during the trip we were following the navigation in David's CTS when it seemed like we were driving in the middle of nowhere. There was the road but there was nothing around it so it was a little sketchy (especially at night and there are just woods and woods all around so you can't see anything). I had to get a pic of it.

We finally arrived but ended up driving right past the village we were staying in because I was expecting it to be on the right...not the left (because it was on the left when we passed it) so we drove about 10 mins out of our way and realized we should probably turn back.

Oh did I mention we brought our dog Achilles along with us? He was stuck in the back the whole way there but he kept trying to come up front to be with us since we were pretty much ignoring him since we were more concerned about not dying while driving those snowy, icy roads up to west virginia. Poor little guy. But we made it safe and sound! Yaaaaay!

We played apples to apples that first night...that was a lot of fun :)
The next morning was the first day of snowboarding and it was foggy...like horror movie foggy where you can only see about 10 feet in front of you so you have no idea what's ahead of you or behind you. It was really spooky but we made really good use of that day despite the weather. Go figure at about 4:30 (when the ski resort closes) the sun came out and the fog started clearing so we were all pretty miffed at that.

But everyone had a good time. David and I stayed on the green slopes. There were a lot of people there so at times it seemed like the slopes were crowded but then there were times when there was no one else around and that's when it was fun because you could go as fast as you wanted and not worry about traffic ahead.

Afterwards when Snowshoe slopes closed we went down to Silver Creek to continue boarding. It was already dark and it seemed even colder then Snowshoe and way more icy. There was this one flat bend that I got stuck on for about 5 minutes because it was so flat it was hard to get moving on it. So I did a lot of jumping up and down to get my board in motion..that was tiring but eventually got to the end of it. David and I were both tired after that second run so we went inside and found Dorsa. She was apparently very hungry and bored (I do not blame her) and all of us had concluded we wanted to go back home and be warm, eat and be happy :)

That night we had what I like to call "Honey Pig" at home. It was so good!!!!! Gilbert and Eunyoung brought all the food and did the preping and cooking...it was amazing :) I am droooling just thinking about it. Literally we all just kind of shut our mouths and ate it was so good and we were all starving!

Haha and then we played....catch phrase!!! I will admit I was actually very tired before we started this game. I was feeling achy and happy/full from all the food and I just wanted to curl up in bed. But once we started playing it was the best times we ever had all together :) Lots of laughing and being silly. What made it so much more awesome was Eunyoung who speaks english as a second language so there were some words and phrases that she wasn't entirely sure about and she would mix up certain words so half the time we were confused and the rest of the time we were just laughing and having fun...And then there's a big..ummm....and errrrrrrr...Valet Stripper.....and David Leno/Jay Letterman.....and Yup!! You had to be there it was awesome!!!

The next day was the second day of boarding..we all woke up and Sunny made us breakfast, eggs and sausage. I made a egg and sausage cheese sandwich. Yummm. It was still foggy but not as much as it was the day before. I was so sore that day I wish I had more time to sleep but David and I were leaving that night so he could go to work on Monday so we had to get in as much boarding as possible. It was much colder outside that day but not as icy. On the slopes there were certain areas that were more icy then others...the edges are all powder since those parts are barely touched by skiiers. We took a long ride down one of the greens. It took a while...David didn't like how icy it was but we eventually made it down.

David decided to join Dorsa at the Starbucks after that run and i decided to try a blue since I had not done one in so long....it was so much fun...it was scary but still worth it :)

We went back shortly after that to the house and Dorsa made us all lasagna...like too much lasagna but it was delicious and it made me happy!! Dinner and a pizza I do say!

Before dinner the Ravens played the Patriots in the play offs and David wanted the Ravens to win so he was really excited about it. But the Ravens didn't win and we were all sad but the dinner and a pizza was the best!!!!

David shows his dislike of the Raven's loss.

But then he remembered Dinner and a Pizza :)

Then we had to drive home. So we packed up the car and headed out around 7:40 pm. That was a long drive home. Both David and I were tired and achy and at first 5 hours didn't seem so bad but then 10 pm rolled around and it started raining a little bit and it was just awful. David drove the whole way (what a sweetheart) even though I offered to drive...but he didn't see the point since it was only and hour and half more until we were home. We did make it safe and sound a little after midnight and we both crashed into bed. It was a long weekend but so much fun :) I am so glad we did it!!! Yaaaaay!!!