This
Friday, I went on a skiing trip with my brothers and my dad at Sunrise. This
ski trip had been postponed two different times, so I was pretty excited to
finally go. What made it even better was the fact that I was missing school to
do it. The reason that I was doing it on Friday was so we could get the
discount for scouts. All scouts could go and ski for 60 dollars.
To
go on this trip, I had to wake up at 5:30 in the morning, so we could get the
most time skiing as possible. When I got there, I immediately got my rental
skis on, and shot off for the lift by myself. I went up and down the runs a
couple times, but eventually I got a little bored skiing by myself. I realized
that it wasn't as fun just doing it by myself. So I came down the mountain and
looked for my family. They were just finishing getting their skis and their
clothes on. I felt a little bad, because of how slow they were taking. I went
with my dad and took them to the bunny hill to help them learn how to ski. I especially
tried to teach my youngest brother, Jonah, who is 8. He quickly got the hang of
it and wanted to go on the bigger runs. So I took him up to the easiest run on
the resort, fairway run. He took to skiing like a monkey eating bananas. Pretty
soon, I realized that it was more fun teaching him how to ski, then skiing off
by myself. After a while, I decided that he was ready for a bigger and better
run. I took him on a blue run. Now, if you don’t know the levels of ski runs,
they go like this. Greens are the easiest ones, blues are intermediate, blacks
are difficult, and double blacks are just plain intense. To get a scale of what
these runs are like, a green would be something like skiing down 8th
avenue. Blues are much, much harder. So anyway, back to the story. I took Jonah on a different lift, a high speed
quad (a lift that seats four people). This lift took us to the top of the
mountain to the harder runs (the view from up there is absolutely amazing by
the way). When Jonah first saw the run we were going on, he thought we were
skiing off a cliff, and indeed it did look like that until you started down it.
Jonah did very good until he got to a steeper part of the run. He crashed and
was unable to get down for 20 minutes. He had to crawl down on his but down the
run. It was quite amusing to watch. When he got down, he acted like he had just
finished climbing Mount Everest.
From
this experience, I realized that is better to be with other people and not just
be by yourself. You will probably have more fun if you stay with other people.
Also if you crash and hurt yourself, you have somebody to help you get down off
the run. We always need a buddy to stick
with.
I love this story. It's so good to see that you have younger brothers that look up to you so much, and even better to see that you take the responsibility to be there for them and love every minute of it. I know that big brothers are really important in any younger child's life. My older brothers have taught me so much and they are my best friends. I bet it was really nice to have some one to spend you time with on your ski trip, but I bet to your little brother this trip was so much more! I'm glad that you are able to teach them to ski and so much more and i hope you always will do that for all three of them forever. Thanks for the post!
ReplyDeleteBen, that is a great story. I like how you were able to go and ride down the mountain a couple times before your parents and the rest of your family was even ready. It really is fun teaching little kids things. I can relate because I coach a basketball team that is Jonah’s age and really fun. It is cool because at that age they can pick things up so quickly. However, I think we all want to rush through things even if it means that we have to go by ourselves. I think that we need to not do this. We need to slow down and enjoy doing what we love, with the people that we love.
ReplyDeleteFREAKIN JONAH!! I love that kid. So you basically took him threw the fire and brimstone that day. How fun, I truly wish I could have been there to witness such a sight as Jonah at the end of the run, with success beaming in his eyes. I feel like that can in a way relate to how our father in heaven puts us on this earth full of slopes to overcome. We may be sliding on our butts for a while but in the end we will be successful and will be able to look up as smile with success. That’s what our spiritual father wants to see from us. Our progression is everything, especially because that is all we will be able to take with us after our death. What we have learned will become most precious. Thanks Ben for the visual!
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