I booked a cabin at Whispering Pines in Pinetop for myself, Stephen, Oscar, and Manny, and we drove up to the mountain on Friday. Quickly checked into the cabin and then headed back to my house since my dad had agreed to cook dinner for everyone. Besides enjoying some burgers, Oscar even made a friend- Mugsy (aka "Uncle Tony") just loved him.
After watching some strange foreign film...which I can't remember the name of but really want to call it Wasabi (no clue if that is correct at all so we'll move on), we went back to the cabin to chill out and prepare for our early morning snowboarding expedition. True to form, Oscar had to make his presence known at the cabin...
So we had a couple of drinks, watched "Wanted", and went to bed. Got up early the next morning and prepared ourselves to tackle Sunrise Ski Resort. Manny borrowed a friend's snowboard but the rest of us had to rent. Got our rentals and then waited for our "beginner's lesson" to start. I've been snowboarding once but it was 7 years ago...on New Years Day with Cherisse after a late night of work at Charlie Clark's. And then we both had to work that night...totally bruised and sore. Anyway, that's a story for another time.
I won't lie. The lesson didn't seem to help that much for me...I still failed miserably once on my own. I think we did the "bunny hill" a couple of times and then decided to to into the lodge for some food and drinks. Manny and I decided we wanted to take on mid-way so we left Oscar and Stephen in the lodge while we headed up. Manny made it down pretty quickly- my goal was slow and steady. Getting up once fallen was the hardest part for me so my goal was not to fall...then I wouldn't have to waste time getting up. However, when I say "slow", I mean S L O W. Sometime on my way down Oscar passed me....I thought I recognized him but wasn't sure. Until I got to the bottom and he was sitting there. I think Manny started another run because he showed up later. We waited for Stephen for a few minutes and decided to go get some hot chocolate in the lodge...so I sent him a text where we were. Considering we were there most of the day, I would not consider my second snowboarding experience a success. A few bunny hill runs and one mid-way wasn't a very efficient trip. But I'm glad I tried it again...which I'll get into in my next blog because it has its own section. The guys all took some falls and were pretty sore. I thought we might have to take Oscar to the bar in a wheel chair. Haha. But I felt pretty good, so I got off lucky. Slow and steady won the pain race at least.
It was a good group to get together- we had a good time up in the mountains. After snowboarding and some relaxation time, I even took them out to the Lion's Den, the happening place to be. We had some drinks and some good times. Oscar embarrassed me and got on his knees to beg me to dance...which he finally won. Some guy photo-bombed a picture (well done dude), and I made some random friends (who shouldn't be called friends because I never spoke to them again. But when they bought me a drink, they were my friends that night). Oscar danced with some older women (of which he only remembers 1) and Stephen documented it all. Manny did some dancing and drinking with us. And although neither of them remember it- Oscar pissed me off when we got home and Manny was the voice of reason when he did. I had to tell them both the story the next morning. So, overall, it was a good trip. We are planning another one for sometime this winter 2011-2012 and maybe we can get a few more attendees since some of the original planners couldn't make the first one. I'm looking forward to it.
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| He won- I danced. |
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| Photo bomb! |
A couple of points to clear out
ReplyDelete1) I had to show my Adonis body
2)They are called "cougars" not older women, they tend to resent that.
3) Uncle Tony loved me because i was imitating Inspector Gadget's "Dr.Claw" voice.