step into powder...

well, it's official. elizabeth and i love skiing. yesterday we went to 7 springs, a local top-ranked northeastern ski resort, with a group from the seminary and skied for the first time ever. i am pretty proud of us, as we did it without any lessons. we were supposed to take lessons from someone that goes to the seminary, but it was chaotic when we were getting our gear on, causing us to get separated from the group. we decided to just figure it out ourselves (well, we had some help from a friend who had been skiing a few times). i must say that even a beginner slope is quite terrifying when you have no idea how to stop or control yourself. also, i was super scared on the ski lift, which took us up about fifty or sixty feet with nothing holding us in. i was pretty sure that i was going to slip off and fall to my death. any way, i didn't, and after two or three times down the mountain, numerous falls for me, and one run-over kid later, we had the hang of it. it is exhilarating to be able to rush down a mountainside on snow. we don't even hurt today (except for a strawberry on elizabeth's thigh that occurred when she ran over a snowboarded who had decided to take a nap in the middle of the slope at a very steep turn and a bruise on my hand that i like to say occurred when i punched an annoying snowboarder in the face). we can't wait to go again!

here are some pictures (sorry we don't have more. our camera actually froze and wouldn't work again until we got it thawed in the car going home!):