After church on Sunday, we headed to West Virginia to tube and ski at Winterplace. We had reservations to stay at Glade Springs Resort, which is really nice. We had decided to tube on Sunday evening and then ski Monday and early Tuesday. Didn't quite go that way. Here we are before we went tubing; all happy and excited.
Going into Winterplace...even with 57 degree temperatures there, ice was still lingering on the ponds.
And, here's the rest of the story....
We started tubing around 5 o'clock. It began to get slick and fast and fun!
At one point I couldn't dig my heels into the snow because it was icing over quickly and I went over the snow hill at the bottom of the lanes and into the safety net. Oh, but don't worry, it gets better. We took a break for something to drink and came back out of the lodge to tube some more.
16 lanes of pure fun!!
The moon was setting beautifullly over the horizon. (By the way, I'm using Camryn's camera until mine gets fixed).
Around 7:30 or so, I went down the very last lane because it was the fastest. At the bottom, I tried to stop, but frozen snow wouldn't let me dig in. I was flying. And yes, again I went over the snow hill and into the safety net. Huge difference this time though; I was going so fast that I continued on through the net (busted a hole in it) and flipped head over heels down a steep enbankment and landed on the road. Scared the daylights out of me. One nice gentleman whose family was right along with ours while tubing headed down the enbankment to help me since Thomas was still at the top of the hill. All I could think of while I was headed face first, belly down (after flipping) was " Oh Lord, I hope I still have my teeth. Please don't let my teeth be broken or cracked." Stupid, huh?! Anyway, I was in shock supposedly and told Corbin and Adam (ski patrol dudes) to check my teeth and Adam said, "you have them all, but don't worry, we're in West Virginia. If you didn't have them, you'd fit right in." HEHE. My face was cut up and dirt was everywhere and my left foot was throbbing so horribly, they had to cut my boot off. To make a long story short, all I broke was my left, big toe at the base nearest my foot (the doc said the bone broke completely in two), have some bruises and scratches all over my face and an ornery attitude because they told me not to work out. HMPPH, I DON'T THINK SO!!! I have a shoe thing to wear with crutches for a little while. Besides that, I'm good. It could have been a lot worse.
In ski patrol room.
Facial scratches and bruised bone under my eyebrow. I think what scares me now, is what scared Thomas in the middle of the night. He helped me to the bathroom and in just a few seconds I told him I was going to pass out. I did, in a big way. Probably because my blood pressure was 104 over 55 at the clinic and demorol does a number on me. But anyway, we're back home a day early. As soon as I can walk well, I'm taking the girls and Arden (a friend of mine who skiis) back up there so they will get their chance to ski, even if I don't get mine.
Cute, but I don't know how to get this off of this post.
3 comments:
hope ypu feel better! Im soooooooo excited to get tooo gooooo skiing again!!
You need your buddy there to entertain and console you!! Maybe I need to take a day off - Ha! Hope you're feeling better today - How many exercises have you dreamed up to get in your workouts?
Love Ya!! AJ
If you had tarheels you would have been able to stop. Hate that happened, but glad you are ok. The girls looked like real snow bunnies. Cp
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