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Woke up around 8am. Slowly got out of bed, got a nice, long, warm shower. I'm dressed REALLY warm today. Thermals, thick pajama pants, jeans, thermal shirt, white t, black t, long sleeve t..soon a hoodie and jacket on top of that...haha

It's 9:10AM.

At 9:05AM:
Mburg: 29/22, sunny, 8mph winds.
Philly: 31/21, cloudy, 13-24mph winds.
Blue Mountain Ski Area, PA: 26/16, cloudy 13-23mph winds.

Had another breakfast sandwhich. Yum :). It's 9:32AM.

And....we're off! 9:52AM.

We arrived about 2 hours later. I bought the beginner lift ticket/first lesson, rental for $50. By the time I got my boots and board and over to the building, I had missed the lesson by 5 minutes (12:05pm). So, I had to wait for the next one, at 1pm.

I waited half an hour for Jimmy to go get his stuff and come back, then he showed me how to stand and use heel edge and toe edge for 15 minutes. I went back inside to check in. The guy said I had everything right, and to meet outside soon. They came out and said they were ready to go. I went out and we waited until 1 in case anyone else showed. Nobody did, so I essentially got a private lesson (which are much more). This was my instructor's first time teaching. His name was Chase. He helped out a bit. After 30 minutes, I was sweating like never before, and I was very thirsty. He said I was catching on very quickly, which I'm used to hearing, haha. I had a little trouble turning on heel edge and going from toe to heel. The time was up at 2pm, so I headed to the car with Jimmy to eat our sandwich. I wanted to strip down so bad, I was soooo hot. I took off my long sleeve shirt and hoodie and drank an entire bottle of water.

Then, we headed back out. I went down the small hill one more time and then Jimmy and I went on the chair lift on the bigger hill. We did that about 5-6 times. I basically kept learning to stop using heel and toe and then eventually got to do my S's, turning from heel to toe to heel etc. I got 4 in a row down. I essentially need to take the turns slower to slow down. At first, I wanted to just slide right down! Thinking about it, it would be bad because I'd be going too fast to stop for my own good. I busted my but a good few times, especially on the right hill near the treebushes. My 4th or 5th run was when I did the 4 continuous turns pretty well. The last run, I did myself, as Jimmy went down to the bottom. I then went down the lower hill too, and we were done! We were in the car, changing and packing back up. I ran inside to return my stuff and then we were in the car, and he pulled up to use the restroom. We had left shortly after 4pm, and the drive took about 2 hours and we were home by 6. We basically sat here for a bit, relaxed, and he looked up places to eat for a while. He finally settled on some pub, so he got a quick shower and now he's out and we're fixing to leave! (7:34pm).

7:25pm
Mburg: 35/31, clear, 5mph winds.
Philly: 35/26, partly cloudy, 11mph winds.

Left, ate chicken wings and cheese steak pasta and celery and...oh and water. Left sometime after 9pm. It's now 9:39pm. We're home, I'm tired, worn out, sore, and cold. Can't wait to get a nice hot shower before I go to bed. I'll be waking up REALLY sore!

Sat around, talked, made them a DVD of my pics, then started to watch Gilmore Girls but Jimmy fell asleep. AGAIN! They went to bed just around 11pm. I took a shower around 11:50pm and here I am, laying down at 12:18am.