Skiing!!!

Today we spent the day at Ober Gatlinburg skiing....I had not been skiing in about 6 years, while Shane had NEVER been! Luckily, it's like riding a bicycle!! (-: Shane on the other hand....well, he tried, but I don't think he will be begging to go back anytime soon! On a funny note...after about 2 refresher runs down the "bunny trail" I decided I was ready to really hit the slopes (while Shane was at ski school) so I head over to the ski lift and hop right on! As we make our way up the mountain (my co-passenger on the lift was a 10 yr old kid on a snowboard!!!!) I made a horrific discovery.....the chair lift that I was on was going all the way to the TOP of the mountain....not to the nice, friendly, gentle sloping run I thought I was headed to. Oh the horror! I quickly thought about asking to ride back down, but hell no, I could not do that...how embarrassing....so, we get to the top and I have no choice but to ski down. Luckily it was not the black diamond course that I orignally thought I would be forced down (imagine big white human snowball tumbling down mountain at 100mph) but a blue run...intermediate....just very,very long one with a few steep parts and several slick icy patches....I think I fell 3 times! LOL! But hey, it got me back in the grove pretty damn fast! Anyways, here are some pictures & a video of Shane about to bulldoze the heck out of me!