Yesterday my brother Brice and I went snowboarding up at Dodge Ridge. It was a beautiful day with heaps of fresh powder and stunning blue skies. We had an absolute blast together and yes, my legs are KILLING me today. Here are some pictures from yesterday!
After boarding the entire day, Brice and I were absolutely exhausted, but still had to make the two and a half hour drive home. Needless to say there was lots of silly laughter and funny stories shared between us. My favorite was a story from a couple years ago when my brother, mom and I were up snowboarding at Dodge on an unusually powdery day [there was at least 4ft of fresh powder, and the grooming machines could not keep up with the snowfall, so there were NO groomed runs ANYWHERE. heaven.] For Brice, who was only about 4'5 at the time, this posed some problems, and it took him a full two hours to get down the first run, poor guy. For those of you who dont know, when you fall in deep powder, getting up and going again is a bit like trying to swim through air. It just dosn't happen. Well, getting frustrated, Brice decided that he was done riding his board properly, and thought that using it like a sled would allow him to avoid the teadous process of digging, unstrapping, re-strapping... you get the idea. So, he said, "I sat my board down, aimed my board downhill, [having lost his goggles] covered my face with my arms, and hoped for the best." HAHA! My mom and I remember ridding up the lift and seeing a huge storm of snow flying up from the ground as something very small went very fast down the hill. It was by far one of the funniest things I have ever seen.
Anyway, later that night, Brice and I stopped in at Panera and got some food [ah... memories of finals...] and got a bit silly. At one point Brice said both 'thank you' and 'you're welcome' and I fell over in our booth laughing. Brice said that his mental was asleep, and I laughed hystarically when he [sincerely] asked why the booths had flowery fabric, when it was a bread restaurant [I asked him if he thought the pattern should have included loavs of bread?!]. We spent the rest of the ride home singing [without music] Paramore and that Handlebars song, which neither of us really knew all the words to.
We arrived home to find we were locked out of the house, and after a few unsuccessful attempts at breaking in, my sister arrived to let us in.
Miss you all...
Bethany, I passed Wacko Packo and laughed and thought of you!
Lor, I thought of you as I was taking all the pictures!
Sarah and Sandi, You both would have thought me crazy that night!
love, em
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