Banzai!

* *Skiing in New York * *

This winter I went skiing with my family in New York at Happy Valley, and man was it freezing! I think the warmest it got was 20 degrees. The whole time we were skiing snow was slowly drifting down, it was so pretty. Although, on the ski lift when they are making snow it blows right in your face to the point where you wonder if your face is still even there.

 

 

                  

 

 

 

 

At first when I got back into skiing my first hill was definitely the most challenging. When we were supposed to go down a green (easy) run to start off with, my mom took a wrong turn and we ended up going down a harder one. I was so nervous because I didn’t want to fall since getting back up on a mountain is hard. My calves were tensed up so tight but I made it down perfectly. To bad the tensing turned into pain for the next 3 days. But oh well it was worth it. 

Traditions??

In my family we go skiing for Christmas, This year on Christmas I spent 7 hours in the car driving to New York. Not the most fun thing to do. When most people were opening presents and spending time around a fire with family (you know the perfect family scenes you see on TV) I was in the car eating gas station food because no one was open on Christmas. As I was in the car I just stared out the window and saw families together in their Christmas sweaters and only dreamed of having that. I want a stereotypical Christmas. I want the food, family, tradition. The celebration of Jesus Christ being born and not just focusing on the materialistic aspects. I want tradition. All I want for Christmas next year is that kind of Christmas. I only have 2 years left before college to spend vacations with my family and I just want a story book ending. Skiing is fun but I still just want that tradition and I want the magical element of it all put back in. You see little kids eyes light up when you talk about Christmas. They get snuggled in bed and all ready so Santa will come, but now for all the years I’ve known he isn’t real the magic has slowly been dying out of this holiday for me. I just want that back.