Shorts, Snow and Corona

Over spring break I went snow skiing with my college/career age group from my home church in Wichita. We went to Boulder, CO and had a great time. The weather was perfect...nice and sunny! At times I had to laugh to myself because I saw people all around me skiing in t-shirts or wearing shorts in the lodge. Shorts and snow, don't seem to go together, but they did this week.

Well on the last run of the first day, our group decided to go down a black diamond together. I had been skiing on blues all day and doing great. The only times I fell, which was twice, was when I just sort of fell over on my side, they were not wipe outs by any means. Well I told myself that I would go down a black at least once, and I was planning on doing it on our last day but...I got convinced otherwise, not only with coercing of words, but when my sister says she is going and then I see a little 10 year old girl going, one is left with no choice. I decided to tackle "Corona" --the black diamond run we went on.

So we get to the top of the mountain, I am definitely scared, excited all at the same time. Here is a picture of our groupSo our group gets going...some snow plow the whole way down, others "S" their way down, some fast, others slow. I was taking my time going very slow and just trying not to fall...it was a long ride down to the bottom! Andrew decided he would bring up the rear, just an case anyone fell or lost anything. Andrew and I were going slowly down the mountain and I was getting better and better, but something happened. Something rather unexpected.

It was at this moment that I started to freak out in my head a little bit. I was gaining speed and momentum and I wasn't able to slow down. As I was about to wipe out, I saw before me a big tree to my left and a big tree to my right and in the middle was as small tree. I decided to take the small tree. I wiped out, hard, and I side swiped into the tree. I cut my ear with my sunglasses, bruised my leg and hurt my right knee. After I hit the tree, I continued to tumble violently down the mountain with my skis still on for about half of my fall.

The next day I sat out on the deck of the lodge in shorts, close to the snow, and far away from Corona!

Now, two weeks later, I have found out that I have to get surgery. This will happen on April 10. They will repair my meniscus, my ACL and my LCL.

Thanks Andrew for encouraging me to go down CORONA!!!