My misfortunes on my Snow Trip

Last friday, saterday and most of sunday, i was up at tahoe. Its really beautiful this time of year and we were blessed with great weather. I really only had two misfortunes on this trip and one of them wasnt even really mine, wait no, i had three for me and one for my bro so that would make 4 misfortunes altogether. The first thing that went wrong, happened while my brother was driving me, my mom and dad up to the snow. As i looked around outside the window along the freeway, i spotted at least for policemen who were pulled up along side a car giving them a ticket, or standing between the two people who's cars had smashed into each other. As Justin came to a gentle stop behind the line of cars stuck in traffic i again looked out my window to see a cop on a motercycle directly across from me. "Hmm, thats funny that we stopped right across from a-" CRASH!!!!!!!! A huge semitruck came careening down the highway to smash full speed into our tiny honda.....!!!! Just kidding. ; ) it was only a land rover going half speed but he hit us hard enough for me to jerk slightly forword in my seat. My mother gasped, justins eyes went wide with panic and my dad started twisting around in his seat calling, "What was that?!?!?!" Remembering the police man across from us i quickly looked over at him. He had seen the guy rear end us and was writing down, i guessed, the guys license plate on a yellow notepad. We pulled over on a shoulder of the highway and i heard the cop tell my dad that they had had 8 accidents in the last hour. He's certainly got his work cut out for him today, I thought pityingly. So the next three things happened on the slope. My family used to ski, but this time, we decided to all try snowboarding. I have been snowboarding once before, with Catie and Michelle and let me tell you, they are great teachers. As soon as i got up on my board i remembered everything they had taught me and made it down the slope in a record breaking 30 seconds. (I just won't mention the fact tat the slope wasnt very long) The second day is when it all happened. We went to north star and man was it packed! Everyone spoke a different language; Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, Germain, Spanish and a whole lot more. The people who did actually speak english spoke it with a british accent which i thought was very entertaining. So anyways, the first thing that happened was when i was half way down the slope(this slope being VERY long) and was waiting for the rest of my family to catch up with my. I began to feel a little bit worried when an asian boy who was seemingly having a hard time steering, started coming directly at me. My fears were justified when right as i decided i had better get out of the way before he completely took me out, he regained enough balance to steer around me, but unfortunately, not enough to not clip the edge of my board and send my flying down the hill. " Sorry!" I heard him call as he continued zumming down the hill. The second misfortune was much like the first, except this time the positions were reversed. I was the one who actually lost my balance and starting flipping down the steep slope twords a guy who was sitting in the middle of the snow, probably waiting for someone. i managed to stop myself before i hit him and i could see the relief on his face that i was feeling. "Wow, im sure glad u got that cause for a while it was looking kinda ---" for those three lines just use your imagination and you'll probably come up with what he actually said. The third and last thing that happened was probably the worst. My brother and i had decided it would be fun to go to the back side of the mountain, so, seporating from our parents, we took a different lift and started over to th other side. There came a part when it was flat and we had to unstrap on foot to propell us onto the next part. Watching my feet to make sure i didnt slip, i saw a drop of red appear on the white snow. "Oh no...." i murmmered hoping with all my might that it wasnt what i thought it was. To bad. It was. I groaned as a fountain of blood burst from my nose and stained the snow crimson. Staggering over to a wall of snow i dropped to my knees and watched with disgust as all the snow around me was dyed a bright red. Justin stumbled back to where i was and sat down next to me. "Here" he said, stuffing a fistfull of snow in my hand and motioning for me to cover my nose with it. So thats how it went for about 25 minutes. Justin would hand me a handful of snow, i would stick it under my nose and when it became too saturated with blood, i would toss it away and he would give me another clump of snow. By the time it stopped it was getting late and we only had time to go twice down the mountain. So those were my misfortunes on my snow trip.

Princess Pink

Beth's home!!!!

As you can most likely gather from the title, my sister Beth is home from college. She's only home for a little while though, *tear* and will soon, as of this tuesday be going to the San Fransisco airport(i think) to be getting on a plane to Ecuador. She is going to be spending her whole 5 weeks of christmas break down in south america in a country named Ecuador in a town called pifo with the Baez family. Two summers ago our whole family(and the rowlands family) went down with other families from our church on a ten day mission trip. The men and boys helped build and construct a new classroom, while everyone else ran a 4-5 day VBS for over 400 mexican children. It was so much fun, even though i had no idea what the heck they were saying. Almost everybody came home sick, but it was worth it to look back and see the things we had accomplished and the lives we had touched. And now my sister is going back, by herself to get better at espanual( thats spanish for those of u who didnt understand) = ).

Pink Princess