Starting off Slow, Ending Fast March 09, 2006 02:11:03 AM
I went to my grandmother's today (grandpa's yesterday before the dentist), and it never ceases to amaze me how the elderly always have an interesting story to tell. After completely filling me up with rediculous amounts of home-made cooking, she always seems to have something to talk about from the olden days. I also noticed something that never really hit me before, my grandma is doing exceptionally well. I mean like, she is 88 years old, and she lives in her own apt, walks around just fine(a little slow, but just fine), does all her own chores, cooks all her own dinners, shes very sharp for her age, so you can't pull a fast one on her. She even drives yet! She is all about helping people out, so she takes other little old ladies to the doctors and out for breakfast and stuff on a regular basis. She is just so healthy for her age. My grandpa is very bright and getting up there in age too. So if any of this is any idication, then I should have pretty good genes and should be able to live to around 100!
So the other half of the day was completely different. I went skiing! I met up with Chris, Tiff, Emily and Ron, and we all went up to Ski-Roundtop, a ski resort in north western york. Now I was able to get lots of good FAST quality skiing in, but emmy, chris, and tiff decided to go with snow boards this time. They ended up going down the slopes only twice the entire time there! Emmy can ski, she just wanted to try something new, chris and tiff on the other hand, have never even been to a ski resort before, but they insisted on going with the snowboards. Now it is in my opinion, that n00bs, such as they, should always start off on skiis. Skiis are less difficult to learn initially, and can give the users a better feel for rapid progression down the hill. It will also help develop a better sense of ballance since the 2 feet are not latched together. All in all, though, it seemed like everyone had a good time, even if the n00bs did spend 95% of their time on their bums :-)
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COMMENT: Even though I did spend a lot of time on the ground and I'm pretty sore today, I had a lot of fun last night :o)