Ski resort trip

Koreans like to put on concerts in weriod spots...this is at the bottom on the hill at the ski resort.


The Black Diamond slopes.

We spend the weekend at a ski resort about 2 hours outside of Seoul, which is ironically about 3/4 of the way across the country. We left saturday morning and headed up there with a large group of people. We were on the slopes untill 10 pm and then headed to our cabins for some korean bbq and beer. It was the first time i had ever been to a real ski slope and the first time i had ever been on a real snow board. Granted Jason and I would buy crappy wal-mart brand snowboards and act like we knew what we were doing... but knowing now what it is really... We were way off man lol. Marie rented ski's but the slopes were a breeze for her becuase she knew what she was doing. Me however, took a little work to perfect my incredibly novice style of snowboarding. I started on the beginer hill, although at first i was thinking about going for the intermediate hill. And i have to say that if Jason was here with me, we would have went big or went home... but anyway, it took me about 35 minutes to make it down the hill for the first time. I was on my butt every few feet... not exsagerating. Well you have to carve with your board, in other words turn your board sideways so that you don;t fly ten thousand mph down the mountain. Well when you turn your board to have shift your weight so that the board is tilted up the hill not down. Yeah i know, common sense, easy enough sounding...... not so much. If the front edge of your board catches the snow... face first, sliding down the hill like it is a frozen ass slip and slide! Well the same goes for carving in the other direction, when you have your back faceing down the hill. This carve was a little harder to do becuase lets face it, you stand backwards on the top of a mountian and tell me how camfortable you feel lol. So as the day went on and i kept picking myself up off the frozen ground, i quickly started to find my groove and was managing to only fall roughly 4 times in one trip down instead of the 16 or so like when i started. At the end of the day i was comfortably going down the intermediate hill with Marie, yes still falling, but not nearly as often and as a plus, i had learn how to catch myself from all the falling practice i did earlier in the day. Well as the day ended, I was pretty happy with myself and the progress i had made on the snowboard. But.... let me tell you about the morning after. I woke up in pain all over my body. I legs hurt becuase it took alot of leg strength to control the heavy snowboard. My arms and wrists hurt from falling and catching myself so damn much. But worst of all... My butt hurt sooooo damn bad that i had to ask Marie to check it out and... Bruised! My butt has three GIANT black and blue bruises on it! No joke. It has made sitting on wooden chairs a little difficult here at work :(. But over all... I loved out ski slope experience and would go agian anytime. I can confidently say that (hopfully) i would be confident enough in my skills that my butt would come back unscaved!