ALEXA

I'm really tired.... my legs aren't in skiing shape and I'm still a little sick. When we stepped off the plane and walked down the steps and into the airport (they don't have those attatchment thingys that you walk through) I remembered why I love it out here so much. It was snowing softly and the air smelled so fresh and nice.
Yesterday was the first day I've skied all season. We skied with my cousins and aunt and uncle. It was fun, as usual. When we were in line for the tram early in the morning, my dad was acting like possibly the most embarassing person on Earth. In front of us there was a group of 6 boys, one of which I recognized as a sophmore from WHS and another that I knew from middle school. I discreetly pointed this out to my father and when we next passed them as the line snaked through the corral, he turned to the latter boy and said "so you're (name with held)!" The boy just looked at him like "who are you? don't talk to me" and i just pretended I wasn't with him. The thing dad doesn't get is that I know the boy's name, but I have never talked to him in my life, and frankly I have no desire to. I just hope we don't see him around the Club, but I think he's staying here because I saw him here last year.

Today was really really fun! In the morning we got all of packs (to carry skis; we were planning on hiking the Headwall, but it was closed) and peips (transievers to find people who are buried in case of an avalanche). Luckily we didn't need to use the peips, but I always feel kinda cool when I'm wearing one. We went OB (out of bounds of the resort) and skied a bowl called Rock Springs. It was amazing! I did the same run last year and it was my first time going OB and this time it was my brothers' and my cousins' first times. Last year I was a little nervous because it definitely is more dangerous, but this year I wasn't really all that nervous. My aunt and uncle live here and they know when it's safe or not and they know what precautions should be taken, so I mean i trust them completely, but there were some other skier and boarders that didn't seem to know proper safety for skiing OB and I was kinda wary of them.
In the afternoon I stayed back at the Club with my cousin Michelle because I was really tired and wasn't feeling too well. It was really scary: when we were skiing one of the shoots [chutes --ed.] all of the sudden I like, couldn't breathe and had to sit down and have a little coughing fit. So the two of us went down to the slopeside hot tubs and watched other skiers. Then we had a solitare marathon and we were sick, we won almost every time. Then tonight we're going to see a string trio in the village and it sounds like they're wicked good.