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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, PresidentScrap Your Trip®
www.ScrapYourTrip.com
‘cuz life is a trip worth scrappin’®
Jana’s Goody Basket
I’m smiling because I don’t know yet how many times I’m going to fall down!
Lauren tubing (much more fun than skiing)
Logan making a snow angel
The family on a sleigh ride
Logan in the lift line
Lauren "apres-ski"
21 Comments
1. Jennifer L in Canada&hellip | April 8th, 2009 at 9:07 am
Julie,
Thank you for sharing your life experiences and family with us. I don’t feel like I am buying products from a stranger way down in Orlando but a friend that I am hoping to meet some day! Congratulations on the ski run! Triumph is trying with a little extra – umph!
2. darlawelch&hellip | April 8th, 2009 at 9:14 am
Wow! That’s not a “goody basket” – that’s half a scrapbook store! Jana, you are one lucky gal!
3. Gail Brandt&hellip | April 8th, 2009 at 9:31 am
I’m so glad I was not the only one who fell all the way down the mountain:-) I know exactly how you feel Julie. I went skiing in Austria and did the same thing – fell so many times I lost count, then also ended up walking down the mountain in my boots:-)
I think what frustrated me was seeing these little kids whizzing past me and I could hardly stay upright for longer than 10 minutes:-) Glad you ended up having fun after all
4. Deborah Handley&hellip | April 8th, 2009 at 9:36 am
Julie,
I so enjoy your weekly email blogs sharing your family experiences with us all, including the wonderful photos. I too feel like I am buying scrapbook products from a friend who just happens to live in Florida.
Congrats on your wonderful last ski run of the day! I am so glad you decided to give it “one last try” before finishing up the day on a sour note (previous falls). Now you’ll be excited enough to try it again some day
I’ve been skiing since I took skiiing as a college PE course way back in 1979. Our little community college was close to a very tiny ski resort in Virginia. It was so tiny it only had three or four runs total in the whole resort! I just googled it and it has grown considerably. Anyhow, my instructor said on the last day that if we made it down the expert slope (as I said there were only 3, beginner, intermediate and expert, plus the bunny slope), he’d give us an A for the class. Well, that’s all he had to say. Even though I was an intermediate skier by then I was determined to get an A if that’s all it took.
Yep, I wiped out. Big time. I remember being spread eagle just spinning after I’d fallen before coming to a stop. I think I must have fallen as much as you did, but I made it down that slope and got my A. I haven’t been on an expert slope since then. I ski the intermediate ones. And just so you know, getting off a lift is very difficult at first, it takes practice so you did very well for your first time.
Thanks again for the weekly blogs. Take care,
Debbie Handley
5. Lisa Shuping&hellip | April 8th, 2009 at 9:39 am
I just love your newsy e-mails!! Feels like I’m part of the family! And that goodie basket – have mercy!!
6. Tracy LaGuardia&hellip | April 8th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Julie, it’s always great reading your entertaining stories and I of course, love all your products! You have stuff that I’ve never seen anywhere else! (especially musical things- I’m a musician) I’m also a Denver native- glad you enjoyed (mostly) your visit here. I’ve skied since I was 4 and always have done better when no one was watching! (you don’t care if you fall- so you don’t!) Hope you try it again.
Scrap Your Trip is amazing- THANK YOU!
7. Karen Quinn&hellip | April 8th, 2009 at 10:06 am
Julie,
I just love getting your emails every week! I look forward to hearing your stories and seeing all the new products! Love the hearts in the sand paper!!!!!
Thanks!
Karen Q
8. Lucia&hellip | April 8th, 2009 at 10:20 am
Brrr!! I enjoy your emails. It looks like you guys had a good time.
Thanks,
Lucia
9. Judy aka scrapylady&hellip | April 8th, 2009 at 10:21 am
Julie, I have a request/suggestion for you to please ask Nicole and team about…the “always a reason to dance” die cut SYT#5059 is great but how about turning that into a custom die cut. I would love to be able to make a comment on learning to play piano, or playing guitar on top of the notes rather than dance. I have a grandchild taking piano lessons and planning to start learning guitar. He “plays” for our family events so I always have pictures to scrap of him performing. There is not a lot out for young children’s music lessons
. Right now I have to use the same music note stickers and die cuts for him that I use to scrap all the concerts we go to..too much of the same embellishments being used. Thanks Judy
10. Peggy&hellip | April 8th, 2009 at 11:22 am
I am a transplant from Satellite Beach,but now live in Colorado, only on the western slope, and we ski, I am not very good, and usually stay on the bunny slope, but once I went to the top of the mountain with friends, fell twice, and ended up walking down the mountain, it took me an hour to do it, I was sore for two weeks, so lesson learned I stay on the bunny slope. I know that you had a great time, I enjoy reading about your adventures.
11. Elaine&hellip | April 8th, 2009 at 11:29 am
I love your weekly emails! Like the others, I feel as tho I’m buying “stuff” from a friend and not an impersonal company. Thanks for that. And Oh. My. Word. That Goodie basket! Outrageously wonderful.
12. Lori Andrew&hellip | April 8th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
OMG, I’m LMAO! I’ve been a skiier for years – haven’t had the chance lately but skiied for years in my 20′s-30′s and your description of the day just left me rolling! Sorry you didn’t just love it because it can be such fun. Glad the family did though and you all LOOK WONDERFUL!! Know what you mean about the temps. It was 79 here in Charlotte on Sunday and then 37 this morning….bbbbrrrrr!!
13. Liz Lowe&hellip | April 8th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
I LOVE vacation pictures !!!!! It does not even matter that they are not MY vacation !! Always happy smiling faces !! Thanks so much for sharing !! As for surviving “here up north”, what we do is put on hat, scarves, gloves and boots and dream of someday retiring to sunny warm ORLANDO
14. Donna&hellip | April 8th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
My husband taught me to ski when I was 53 yrs. old. We skiied for 10 years together, some of the best times we ever had, however, in those 10 years I sure did my share of falling, sometimes gracefully and other times, not so much!!!!!!! I even broke my nose, but that did not stop me. We skiied in Pennsylvania, New York, West Va., Vermont, and New Hampshire. Don’t give up, if you have another opportunity to go, by all means do it.It just gets better and better. Looks like the kids had a grand time. Thanks for sharing your photos, I enjoyed the story and the photos.
15. Janet&hellip | April 8th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
My husband and I started skiing 30 years ago, and I chuckled at your experience which was so similar to my first time skiing – right down to the ski patrol – which was fun now that you mention it. Our children and grandchildren join us on the hill now, and although knee surgery keeps me in the daylodge I still love to go skiing with the family. All of us from oldest to youngest enjoy the day. Keep at it, it will get lots easier and is so much fun.
16. Betsey Holzhauer&hellip | April 8th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Julie, I, too, thoroughly enjoy hearing about your family activities each week, and seeing the pictures is great, too. I do feel like I know you all already.
Have you ever done a die cut or paper for the Special Olympics? Since this is a sport-based activity, it would fit right in with all your sports themes. I have a grandson who participates several times a year, and I would love to have something special on my LO’s of him doing these activities. Thanks for considering it.
Betsey
17. Cheryl&hellip | April 8th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
I had a good laugh reading about your ski trip because it was an accurate description of my experience on the slopes when I was a new skier. I was in my late 20′s when I moved to NH from FL and decided to take up skiing. I was determined to learn how, but was terribly intimidated by other skiers whizzing by me while I struggled to stay in an upright position. I tried so hard not to fall because I could not master getting myself up by using my ski poles. After one particularly frustrating day of falling down and sliding down the hill as I tried to stand back up, I yanked off my skis and proceeded to walk down the hill. Total humiliation came when a guy from the ski patrol stopped to ask me if I was hurt and needed help. I never became a great skier but I didn’t quit either.
18. Tricia Douglas&hellip | April 8th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Loved reading about your “snow adventures.” Glad it was YOU and not me doing the falling. I wanted to thank you for all the attention you always give me. I feel very special. Keep up all the good work!
A special fan, Tricia
19. BreckSkiInstructor&hellip | April 9th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Julie – I am an avid scrapbooker and love your website because living in Breckenridge, CO it is difficult to get supplies. I travel a lot for work and have found wonderful supplies for my China, Mexico, and Brazil pictures on your site. I am also a part-time ski instructor at Breckenridge (just down the road from Copper). I am sorry that you did not have more fun on your recent ski trip. However, I hope you will come out again and give it another try. Skiing is an awesome sport – what other sport on the first day of trying can you say you actually did it. YOU SKIED! Even the best skiers in the world have to sometimes take off one ski to be able to get up from a fall. I have been told that if I don’t fall, I am not pushing myself. Three inches of fresh powder, especially in April, is a gift from above – cherish it. We love it and I hope you will come to love it too. Come back next year. I would enjoy teaching you in a lesson. My one piece of advice when you come again, is spend a day or two in Denver before coming up the mountain. That will help you acclimate to the altitude more and maybe the kids won’t be sick. Don’t give up on Colorado. It is God’s country. It is great in the summer too!!
20. Peggy&hellip | April 9th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
I see you have new baseball paper, but what about softball!!!???
21. Mary&hellip | April 13th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
My boyfriend is a race car driver and I order your go kart stickers all the time! Unfortuantly, he’s moved up to the Legends Car Series, and I can not find any stickers or anything to use for his scrapbook. )= If I send you a few pictures would it be possible to design something? Thanks a bunch!