God, You Reign!

I went to the mountains yesterday for some skiing and it was quite the trip. I had gone by myself the week before to Keystone and stayed on green's all day. I tried one blue, and did not like it one bit. Saturday we went to Breckenridge and it was way cooler. First of all, it was the most beautiful day, blue skies, no clouds and pure sunshine. Yahhh Colorado

I didn't get much sleep the night before because my body is on night shift schedule and hates me, so I slept the whole way up. When we got there it was kinda cold but by the end of the day we were all sweating and gross haha. I went with Erin and her friend Dana and her friend Matt. They are all awesome snowboarders, and I was the little skier who was still trying to figure out the dang pizza wedge to slow myself down. I talked them into doing a green for the first run, even though they usually do blue's and blacks. I felt pretty good on the green, so we advanced to the blues. Bad idea. While I kept it together on some of them, the majority of the time I was trying to pizza wedge, flailing my arms and saying out loud " I don't like this I don't like this I don't like this!" The whole feeling out of control thing isn't my favorite =) Surprisingly, I only fell once while going down the slopes, however I knocked out a little kid in the process and his dad was NOT happy with me (um, hello, I didn't try to hit you guys but you were both sitting on your butts in the middle of a slope and I was out of control! haha) I think the kid was fine.

 The whole day I kept having the songs "God You Reign" and "Our God is Greater" because the mountains are just so majestic and beautiful, and his Creation cries out that we have an awesome Creator!
 Now the funny part. I HATE the chairlifts. Part of it is because I remember them tripping me up when I learned to ski back in the Dells, part of it is because the people I was with were all too cool to pull the handle bar down that keeps you in the chairlift. The beginning of the day was fine. No problems. Except every time the chair lift would stop midway I would get really nervous and hang on super tight to the chair and Erin would laugh hysterically. Um, we'll see who's laughing when YOU fall out of the chairlift 20 feet above ground! haha.

So towards the end of the day, we're preparing to get off the chair lift and the inevitable happens. My skis get caught on Dana's snowboard and pure embarassment and pain is on it's way. I completely wiped out and landed hard on my hip, underneath the chair (somehow Dana escaped just fine.....=) All I see is the next chairlift full of people coming straight at me with their skis and snowboards. Not a nice feeling. Thankfully they stopped the lift and as we're all laughing hysterically, I get back up. It hurt a little at the time, but now I have a massive bruise on my hip that hurts super bad. I can barely walk haha.What's even better is that right before we left, we went up one more time, and Matt and I were trying to get on the lift, and I have no idea how it happened, but he wiped out and was hanging on to the lift with one arm, while I'm thinking "Let go, let go, let go, don't take me down with you!" It was awesome. Between the two of us we got some pretty good laughs  about our misfortunes. Now do you all see why I hate chairlifts?
Anyway, over all, super fun day. But our bodies hurt real bad today. Oh, and this is just a super awkward picture of Erin and me...we totally weren't ready, but I find it hilarious.