Sugar sweet defeat

Saturday, February 11th, 2006

I have to admit, we really didn’t plan to stay in the US as long as we did, but one thing led to another and between taxes, website, blog writing and family events (two birthdays and a double bat mitzvah), we sort of got a bit stuck. Nevertheless, this didn’t stop us from having fun! Boris, Shurik’s brother in law, invited us to go skiing with him and his friends to North Carolina, and if anyone knows Shurik, it’s like asking a bear if he would like some honey, so of course we went. Sugar Mountain in North Carolina was pretty nice. The weather was just right — cold enough to ski, but not too cold to arrive at the end of the lift as a popsicle. We were supposed to ski for four days, but of course our newly acquired adventurous spirit could not let it end at that. Anna, our fourteen year old niece, got bored of skiing by the end of the second day and spent the third one snowboarding her butt off (literally) which looked like a lot of fun. And even though the next day she was saying every bone in her body was sore, and she could not move her neck, me and Shurik were determined to try it out.

Tags: health, skiing
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