learn to snowboard

I wasn’t sure if this was going to be possible for January (my intention is to go the first weekend after New Year’s), but since Sunday there has been a LOT of snow. December looked like it was going to be brown, but it’s white out now. Let’s just hope it holds out for a month, and conditions stay good!

My wife and I had to cancel our snowboarding excursion last weekend. Never mind the reasons why; the point is that since the weather has been so nice lately we don’t see ourselves going snowboarding until the snow falls again in October-November. So, it’s a little disappointing, but my wife pointed out a silver lining: this way, we can go early in the season, and then practice a few times before the snow melts away, as opposed to taking lessons again in the fall which we’d likely have to do anyhow. Not taking this goal off my list, though: just keeping it on as a gentle reminder to actually do it early this year.

After adding this to my list about a year ago, I’m finally going snowboarding this coming weekend! For my birthday my wife got us some lessons as a present, so we’ll be going out on a cool (and possibly) Saturday to finally try it. I can’t wait; I’m a pretty good skiier but I’ve never snowboarded before. It looks like a fun challenge. We’ll see how exciting it is after I actually try it…