Friday, August 15, 2008

Wherein 2 kids, a mom and a grandma go to race camp...


WOW, there's a lot of details when its more than just me going! I just got off the phone with Sean Derris, the ski school director at Mt. Hood, and I'm so excited that he's going to help show me around the mountain and tell me about their family race camps. Apparently they have a new rock climbing wall, which I am sure the boys will love. Thanks, Timberline, for putting us up, we're looking forward to seeing what its all about!! Check out their website, the place is beautiful, the building is incredible, and BONUS POINTS, its where they filmed The Shining!!

NOW, all the details... my skis arrived in Hood ahead of schedule, but aren't mounted, so we'll have to try and figure that out on Sunday, Stacey said she'd teach me how to get dressed, although I think on Monday I'll probably just wear my regular ski clothes with some armor underneath (I'm gonna work up to wearing the speed suit, although my friend Steven said I'm a good enough skier that it'll help if I wear it... but Kurt is of the opinion that if I am skiing in a wedge and skidding my turns, better turns will help more than a spiffy speed suit... ha ha ha)...

Ben is loaning me shin guards and steering me around Hood virtually from Colorado, Jeremy Riss let me get my junk shipped to his house, in Hood... Mom flies in on Sunday in Portland, Chris Jones is trying to get up there for a day of skiing at some point in the week, if he can quit base jumping long enough to find his skis...

We have a place to stay Sun - Thurs, but still need to find cheap-o lodging for Thurs - Sun... Ben isn't going to camp after all, so the price of gas just doubled... but mom is coming, so babysitting is deleted as an expense...

Its still super duper tight financially (I think I'm about $375 behind my budget already), but we'll keep working on it... The truck is at Firestone getting serviced so we MAKE it to Hood, Hastings was kind enough to delete all our late movie fees without even asking, and let us rent like 13 power rangers movies for the drive...

On my way to tune Ethan and Bodhi's skis just in case they can get on snow, and grab their climbing gear, bikes... holy cow. Stay tuned, its gonna be an adventure!!

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