We woke up fairly early this morning to have breakfast in the hotel. We then gathered our gear to walk over to the slopes for our first day of Snowboarding school. We met our instructor, his name is Toast, who is from Germany. We learned to put our board, which is not as easy as it seems at first.
First, we learned how to come down the hill straight (board nose first). Next we got to learn how to come down sideways on the front side and the back side of the board. This was my (Tami) favorite way to do it, I am good at this. We also learned how to traverse, sort of. During class we did manage to fall ALOT!
3 hours later, we took off the boots and boards, and headed to lunch, we had worked up quite an appetite. We stopped in to eat at La Ferme, where we ate clear soup (beef flavored) and egg noodles with mushrooms. It definitely hit the spot.
After lunch I had to trade in boots for ones that fit better, then we headed back to the tourist office to book our husky sled ride for Friday. We were exhausted, so we went back to the room and enjoyed tea and a cappuccino. Then, it was off to the hot tub, much needed relaxation and work on the muscles. We headed back up to the room to get ready for dinner and early to bed, we needed the rest for day two of our class.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
We woke up very slowly and very painfully. We didn't have many bruises but we did have lots of achy muscles and pains in places that we didn't even know existed. We had our same routine, breakfast, then headed down to the slopes with our board and boots. However, this time we decided to look into renting a locker for our boots and board, so we would not have to carry them back and forth each day, it was about a 20 minute walk each way and the boards are heavy.
We started class by working more on front and back edge. The we began to learn turns. Once we worked on turns a bit we started to go up the lift. Greg was doing great with his turns and was able to get up the lift very easily, me not so much. I did struggle a lot on the lift, I fell off 4 times today, but I did keep getting up and trying again. I was doing okay with the turns but not nearly as well as Greg.
Greg boarding:
Another boarding move by Greg:
Tami Boarding:
This is how cold it is:
After another long, hard 3 hours we had lunch at Arvo Stuba where we enjoyed a wonderful cheese, tomato, and ham toastette. We then went back to the slopes for a little bit of practice and to take some pictures of us on the boards. After we dropped our boards and boots off at our lockers and decided to stop in at a bar to have a drink.
One of Greg's many bruises:
Next, it was back to the hotel for some time in the hot tub and to get ready for dinner. We had the most fabulous cheese and tomato crepes for dinner, yummy!
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