The Weekender

Sunday, January 12, 2003

So one of my New Year's Resolutions was to try snow boardin!!!!! And I have finally tried the damn sport....ON MY ASS!!! hahahhaa

Let's start off with Friday night... I had gone to Avis to pick up an SUV for the weekend...THANKS AGAIN SQUEAK!!! Low and behold....we get a 2003 Explorer with only 1800 miles on it!!!! HELL YEAH BABY!!!! This thing is HUGE!!! What sucked for you future renters...Avis only allows 25 and older to be legal drivers of the rental...this meant in my ride that I was the ONLY LEGITIMATE DRIVER!!! ugh....I totally thought this was goin to suck..especially since I've NEVER DRIVEN IN THE SNOW!!!! Mind you...I've only seen snow ONCE and this was back in 1995!!!! Ok...so this meant for me.. first time drivin an SUV and first time drivin in SNOW!!! And friends weren't helpin me by sayin how whindy (is that how you spell it) 50 is...Oh yeah..by the way...we were stayin in South Lake Tahoe!!!

So we're finally off pickin peeps up and i'm gettin the feel for this ride... Oh man...I LOVE IT!!! I'm already thinkin of gettin an SUV for myself... I know i know...I always talk about what a waste it is to have one in the city unless you plan to go off-roadin or up to the snow a lot and how there is NO WHERE TO PARK these things... but damn...these trucks are NICE. I totally enjoyed driving this truck and since I had to drive EVERYWHERE.. the comfort of this ride totally helped...I didnt' mind drivin the whole trip!!!! It had leather seats, automatic driver seat and of course HEIGHT BABY!!!

Ok back to the story of Friday night....well the other truck caravannin w/ us was in front of us and we started noticin that the driver was swervin...OH MAN....being cautious I had pulled over and was their ride JACKED!!! They're engine check light has been on since they left San Mateo and it was totally RATTLIN!!! NOT: DO NOT RENT FROM E-Z RENTAL!!! These fools stated that the light is always on and they find nothin wrong with it...JACK SHIET!!! There is somethin definitely wrong... Anyways..the other driver had stated she was in the middle of the road to be SAFE!!!! Oooooooooooooook! That's the first i've ever heard that before.. So we get back on the road and immediately a frickin raccoon crossed my path and OOOOOOOOOOOOOH GOD!!! MY FIRST ROAD KILL!!!! I totally screamed, let off the gas and felt the "da dug da dug" under my feet!!! Oh man..I was dyin of laughter and sadness..I didn't know whether to laugh or cry over the whole situation...

Well it's 1am and we finally arrive in South Lake Tahoe...We finally find the house which is about 5 minutes from the casinos! And it's soooooooo cozy!!! There were 3 bedrooms , 2 baths, kitchen, fireplace, W/D... pretty cool!! So finaly time for bed cause we were drivin up to North Lake Tahoe to board at North Star... WHY COULDN'T I SLEEP!!!!! ugh...I only had 2 hours of sleep!!! One reason was that I had a grande triple hazelnut mocha in Davis to keep me up and secondly...my frickin brother HELLA SNORES!!!! OH HELL!!! I'm goin to be strugglin!!!

Welp we finally get ourselves together Saturday morning and leave almost 8:30am and it takes an hour to get to North Star, mind you we still gotta rent boards and gear. The road gettin to North Star is pretty dope!!! It was a beautiful morning, with snow on the hills and lookin down at the lake, it was a perfect crystal reflection of the mountains above...OH MAN!!! Too bad I was the driver...I couln't totally sightsee. We finally get to North Star to only find that the parking lot is full. So we had to drive back to Airport Road and park our rides there and take a bus up to the resort. At this point..I was getting pretty excited and anxious.

We get to the resort and our initial plan was to take lessons but the peeps we were with insisted that it was a waste of time and that they'd help us out.. No doubt they did help us out, but I pretty much was on my ass the whole time... As I got off the lift, my girl's board and mine crossed, causin me to fall and pretty much i toruqued my knee... I felt I strained my medial collateral ligament in my right knee... We rounded the corner and I finally sat down...and it took me DAYS to for me to bind in my left foot. Don't ask me why...it just did.. So now comes the hard part...STANDIN UP :( This is what I pretty much tried doing all day. Tryin to stand up onto my board and balance on the frickin thing! No doubt. this was totally frustratin. I would sit on the snow tryin to figure out different ways to get up on the board. There was a point where I was ponderin if my eyes were waterin due to frustration or because of how cold it was startin to get because I wasn't movin... Nevertheless, I did finally make it down the damn hill. But I think I had it for the day. I taken off the latch from my boot to my board and saw my board sailin away...OH SHIET!!!! NO ONE TOLD ME NOT TO DO THAT..Thank god the employee was pretty fast in catchin my board and didn't yell at me...oh man...I would have felt like shiet if my board caused an accident...

Today is Sunday and I'm hurtin....Not as bad as I thought I would be ..but my shoulder joints, my right knee, and my coccyx are pretty bruised up... Hopefully I don't have to use my arms too much tomorrow at work. I think I'm goin to have one of the therapists work on me tomorrow :=) Wish I had brought one of our machines w/ me to help w/ all this soreness. I know i'll be cool in a couple of days.. But just wanted to let you all know...I have not given up! I will try boardin again. I'll try the lessons next time around. And if I don't like it then, then maybe i'll try skiing??? Overall, I had a pretty good weekend. I totally lucked out, if I hadn't need to make so many stops, I would have been home maybe in 3 1/2 hours!!! Goodluck to those who are goin MLK weekend!!

posted by The Weekender @ 6:40 PM

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