Skiing Is Fun Again !!!!

Skiing is really fun once you learn how (the learning part can be painful). I learned how about 15 or so years ago, and got good enough that I perfer to ski black diamonds (for the non skiers this is an advanced or expert level slope). The main reason I perfer these runs is that very few people (out of everyone at the mountain) ski black. So I was set, ski black all day, avoid the nit wits and drunks, have a great day, see you in the lodge after. But then Alexa was born, didn't ski much for a few years, added some pounds, moved to the east coast (too damn cold to ski out there). Finally, Alexa grows up a little, wants to snowboard (bummer got one of those in the family), doesn't want to take lessons, so dad says he will take lessons with her (so now I can snowboard, and I had the sore butt to prove it). After a few trips she can ride most of the greens and blues (green is beginner, blue is mid level), but I now remember why I worked so hard to learn to ski well, to get off the greens and blues !!! So most ski days I was working as a blocker and traffic cop, not the most fun you can have on a ski slope. But my perserverence has paid off big time, Alexa rides black now, not quite as fast as dad, but she makes it down and has fun doing it. Pretty soon she will leave me behind in a cloud of powder and ice, but that is the fun part of being a dad, you get to watch your kid become better at something than you are.