Valentines Ski Trip

Last week was officially the peak of the cabin fever syndrome.  All the gray sky's and snow was driving me crazy.  So Kevin and I decided to spend Valentines weekend outdoors snowboarding in upstate NY. 

It was a first for me. Probably going to ruin the whole story here, but let me just say it was great...except this week I'm sitting on a donut!  Yep...pretty sure I have fractured my tail bone. hahaha.  Figures!

We went to Holiday Valley which is near Buffalo NY.  There was tons of fresh snow and lots of people.  We spent the weekend hitting the slopes (for me it was more bunny slopes) and even stopped in at the casino one night.
I have to say snowboarding was a lot more physical than what I expected.  There is a lot of getting up and sitting down, taking your shoe off and on, 20 minutes going up the lift to spend 2 coming down, ya know that kind of thing!  I learned that if you are going to fall, you probably want to fall on your rear end instead of your face...but too much falling on your rear end leads to this! :)

 But by day two I could tell that I was really going to enjoy it once I was able to learn it. 

Holiday Valley was a good place to start and learn they even had night skiing, which was cool. Kevin is a natural of course, but he did good giving me pointers and helping pull me up when I got de-railed.

So it was a nice weekend, but it was also exhausting!  I was sore and bruised in all the wrong places.  But on Valentines Day... I came home to this!  Kevin had cooked dinner and chocolate souffle's for dessert!  yummy!!!  He had flowers, candles and even music.  So sweet!!!  Perfect way to end the weekend.  I am lucky enough to have a husband who is patient while trying to teach me to snowboard, and loving enough to treat me on Valentines Day.