Day of Dissapointment

The tiredness continued into today. Pat let me sleep in until 5:45 before getting me up for skiing. We were planning on leaving at 6am, but I had a headache early this am and did not sleep until the Tylenol kicked in. That combined with the exhaustion from yesterday and I was off to an interesting start.

The first run was the worst skiing run I have ever had. I felt awful and the trail was crowded. I seriously wasn't sure I was going to do any more runs. Exercise always makes me feel better so I did a few more. The first 4 runs took over 2 hours because of the lift lines, apparently my plan of avoiding crowds on super bowl Sunday was not such a unique idea. As a matter of fact the discount lift tickets combined with that idea must have seemed like the obvious best skiing day of the year, it did to me.

Anyway I was starting to feel better when I hit a 4 year old girl (age not really known). I was heading down a steep icy part of the hill and instead of turning I kept going strait (luckily fairly slowly). Stopping was not going to happen I was on ice after all. I had no choice but to sit down and try to catch her so she wouldn't get hurt. I think It worked. Her dad said she was fine, though she was crying (a few minutes after he came over). I was Soo worried. Hitting a person is bad enough but hitting a little kid is horrendous. I stayed around until I was pretty sure she was ok and that my worrying would just upset everyone more.

A few more solo falls (er, runs) and I was done for the day.

Snagging a seat in front of the fire I continued to read the Soprano state. People started to clear out around 2:30, unfortunately my boots were drying by the fire and once they are off they don't get put back on. They are uncomfortable.

***update***
When we were on the lift a gentleman informed us that Belleyare had put in a high speed lift to replace a slower moving lift. That would have been a great plan if it weren't for the fact that the new high speed lift has 100 less chairs. That may have only slowed it down a little if it were running at full speed, but for some reason in the morning they were running slow.