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Archive for April 8th, 2009

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Greetings from Orlando! I’d say "sunny Orlando", but it’s not warm and sunny here! First I was in Chicago and it was cold and snowed. Then I was in Colorado and it was really cold and snowed everyday. So, I can’t wait to get back to where it’s warm, right? It was 49 degrees yesterday morning when I got in the car! I don’t know how all you northern people do it!

I am both disappointed and relieved that our spring break vacation to Colorado is over. How did my ski lesson go, you want to know? Well, it started off good, quickly moved to awful and ended up great.

I started off Friday morning by going up the lift to ski down the Kokomo run (the same one the kids were on). Of course I fell off the chair lift when I got off (and let me tell you, getting up from falling with skis on is NO easy task. I have to take one of the skis off to get up), but then we took off down the mountain. After two times of going down this run, I was kind of getting the hang of it. I saw my kids skiing both times and they were doing great.

Tony joined me and my ski instructor, Jeanette, for lunch. I was kind of excited that I was doing pretty well, so he decided to ski with us. Well, that’s where it started going downhill (no pun intended).

Jeanette decided since I was doing so well, we’d go up the next lift to a little steeper run. BIG mistake! It had snowed quite a bit that day and the Lumberjack run was covered in 3+ inches of snow. I don’t even know how many times I fell down- -I just stopped counting. Tony had skied ahead and was going to come up the lift again and meet up with us. After falling, again, flat on my face, I told Jeanette I had enough.

She asked me if I wanted to walk a bit (since I couldn’t go more than 50 feet without falling). She took my skis and skied ahead. So here I am, WALKING in ski boots down a mountain. Not fun, to say the least. When I finally got down to where she was, she said "I have a surprise for you. I called the ski patrol." So, a few minutes later the snowmobile showed up to take me down the mountain. That was way more fun than walking!

By that time, the kids ski lessons were over, so we all decided to go up the smaller run again. I managed to not fall getting off the lift, but I kept falling while I was with Tony and the kids. "Can we just ski ahead?" "Keep trying Mommy. You can do it!"

I was just devastated and embarrassed that I was failing in front of my kids. So when I got to the bottom, I decided to give it one more try. I got on the lift by myself, right before it closed and I was the last one on the mountain.

Well, that was the trick. No one was watching me. I didn’t have to worry about anyone skiing around me. I made it all the way to the bottom and didn’t fall once!

We were going to all ski again together on Saturday, but a major snow storm was coming and we didn’t want to get snowed in and not be able to get to the airport. So, we spent the day at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. It was a fantastic museum, if you ever get a chance to go.

I am still suffering effects from skiing however. From the pressure of the ski boots (probably from walking down the mountain), my ankles are swollen like I’m nine months pregnant!

I had my little camera with me, so I was able to take a few pictures (see below).

Congratulations to Jana Nelson from Washington! You are the winner of our Surprise Goody Basket! (picture below) We said it was going to be a $200 value, but I think we got carried away. We have so many items lying around the office (samples, only one left), that we kind of got carried away. We still have a bunch more stuff, so we’ll have another drawing coming up soon.

We have some really wonderful new collections this week! We have the Citronella collection (very fun and warm) from K&Co, Our Roots, Tennis and Karate from Moxxie, Baby’s First (boy and girl) and A Kite Day from Best Creations, Old Guys Cruise from Creative Imaginations, Latte from Die Cuts with a View and an adorable Easter collection from Reminisce. There are lots of new layouts for these collections in the Shop By Layout section.

The SYT designers were working on the following themes this week: Easter, Travel, Diving, Germany, Scotland, Austria, Washington DC, North Carolina, Southwest, Theme Park, Zoo, Spring, Basketball, Baseball, Soccer, Swimming, Rugby and more!

We have a custom paper this week that I think you’re really going to love. We’ve been trying to figure it out for a while and Nicole finally got it. It’s our Hearts in the Sand paper, but you can customize the names in the hearts and it looks just like you wrote in the sand! We also have several custom die cuts for sports. We’ve also added lots more colors to our custom die cut titles. Click here to see all the new items: http://www.scrapyourtrip.com/40809.html.

We also have 272 items on sale this week. Click here to see all the bargains: http://www.scrapyourtrip.com/clearance.html.

Need cardstock? We are having a Bazzill sale this week! Spend $75 and you can buy all the colors your heart desires for 50% off. Just enter Coupon Code "BAZZILL" at checkout. ($75 must be made up of non-Bazzill products. Offer ends Friday, April 10, 2009, at Midnight EST. Cannot be used on previous orders. Cannot be used towards future orders after April 10, 2009. Only one coupon per order. Coupons cannot be combined. )

And remember, if you can’t find what you’re looking for, we can always make it custom just for you! Click here to see all our custom options: http://www.scrapyourtrip.com/custom.html.

As always, thanks for your business.

Julie Swatek, President
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