I’ve been sick since January 12th (before our wedding) with this nasty sinus infection that just won’t go away… probably because I was doing a little of this on our honeymoon while sick.. But could you blame me? I mean look at this view:
Deer Valley Resort Mountains/Runs in the Background
Cheesy picture courtesy of my husbands suggestion to have our snow mobile guide take it for us haha. Anyway, due to the cold I really haven’t done much/felt up to posting/had much to post about. Fortunately, I think I’m finally on the up swing. So, sorry about that, I have tons of house related projects in the pipes! Until then, I have a funny story about our honeymoon skiing experience…
We stayed at the Marriott Summit Watch on Main Street in Park City, Utah and skied at Deer Valley resort over a weeks time after the wedding. It was a blast! But yeah, I had never skied before. Hell, I saw snow for the first time about a year or two ago. I like to think I’m somewhat adventurous though, so when it was suggested that we consider skiing for our honeymoon, I was actually kind of excited about it.
Before we left, I was heavily encouraged to go to ski school for at least the first day so I didn’t injure myself or anyone else (definitely a good idea). So I did. I got hooked up with an instructor, ironically named Ryan, and did an hour long one-on-one lesson with him. He went over the basics, how to start/french fry and stop/pizza as well as turns and some other fun things. By the end of the lesson he said he was confident I would be able to do any green by the end of the day. Cool. So my Ryan suggests we go try the bunny slopes on our own (he’s actually been skiing since he was about 4 years old though) and see if I could do it without an instructor. We get on a lift and all the sudden… “Oh crap!”… “I think we’re on the wrong lift!” Oh yeah we were. We were on a lift to a legit run, not the bunny slopes. Not just a real run either, one of the harder green runs. Well, he doesn’t really tell me this, just that “We can get to where we need to go from here, don’t worry.” Famous last words.
We start our way down this run and I must have fallen every 30 feet. It. was. awful. On top of that, Ski instructor Ryan never taught me how to get up if I fell. Whoops. I guess since I didn’t fall in ski school, he didn’t think of it. Yeah, I wasn’t the best at getting back up. To top that off, like I mentioned before, I was sick and was pretty much snotting it up all inside my gaiter and nearly hyperventilating out of frustration from the whole mess. Ryan’s frustrated that I’m frustrated and it’s just a huge ordeal. It’s not over though, Ryan suggests we cut off at a fork to an easier green run… unfortunately, it was closed and we had to go down a blue to get down to the bottom of a mountain. AWESOME. not.
So, after 1 hour of skiing…ever… I basically fell on my bum all the way down a blue. Cool. By the end of the second day though, I was able to ski down Blue runs without any issues. After the debacle of the first day, we went back and did things in the correct order and it made a world of a difference. Ryan and I have decided that if we made it through my complete and utter meltdown while basically tumbling down a run, we can conquer the world! Go team!
Goofing around on the chair lift.
If you’ve never had the pleasure of skiing at Deer Valley, let me quote an advertisement I saw while in town, “Ski here first and you’ll ski here second.” It. Was. Gorgeous.
View from Silver Lake Lodge at Deer Valley Resort
Ryan skiing down "Trump"
We’re finally back from our Honeymoon as Mr. and Mrs. and our wedding was everything we dreamed it would be! I was always reminded to “take it all in” because it “goes by so fast” and man, they were right. It’s been over two weeks now and it still feels so surreal that this day we planned for over a year is well, over.
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