Another snowboard trip...: It was Snow Summit's 50th Anniversary, so like they had a special. $19.99 All Day Lift Tickets(6:30AM-7:30PM) which is quite a deal for lift tickets. The only catch was that you had to buy them online, and it was only for Friday, January 24. Well, we(we being Anthony, Candy, Tuoc, and myself, but Henry, Linda, and Rosa went also) left to Big Bear at around 11:30ish. We would have left earlier, but Anthony had a dentist appointment and had to get fillings. He was hungry and asked me make soup for him so he could eat it during the drive, so I did, only to get dissed by him. He didn't even touch the damn soup!!! Haha, well I guess it was just his way of getting back when he made soup for this one girl he was interested in when she was sick and she rejected it. Haha...anyways, Tuoc drove and like that allowed Anthony, Candy, I to sleep, but after a short nap, we were all awake. We were suppose to meet up Henry, Linda, and Rosa at Big Bear. Henry drove them from their apartment at Riverside. We got to Big Bear first. It was about a two hour drive, and since we were all hungry, we decided to go eat at the Kentucky Fried Chicken that was right next to the place where we rented our snowboards and boots. While we were at KFC, Henry, Linda, and Rosa finally arrived. So once again it was alomost the same seven people going snowboarding. The difference was Jaime was MIA and Tuoc filled in. After we all ate, we went next door to rent our stuff. We then went to the find parking, and then off to go snowboarding. We went to the same ski lift, and this time I went to the right slope. Anthony stayed with me in the beginning to teach me how to board. I couldn't get it. I couldn't get up like he did, so I had to find my own way to get up. After many falls, I got the hang of it, very little. Then we eventually met up with everyone else because they had already been through one run and were on their second. Anthony then left to board and Rosa then joined me to teach me. I kept falling and stuff, by now my palms were in pain, and my knees were starting to hurt, and like I had landed wrong a couple of times and my wrists were hurting. I think I twisted them, but not much harm done. Plus I "ate" it a couple of times, and one time I feel on my side/stomach, and like got my air knocked out of me and was in a lot of pain, but I got through it. Well, while Rosa was teaching me, I did well at some parts! I actually snowboarded and travelled a far amount of distance! It felt so good, having the cold air hit you in the face, but what didn't feel good was having your face hit the cold snow, which was what happened after I fell. I didn't care and got right back up and did it again! I was conquering the sport of snowboarding, until there was a slope and like I couldn't do anything after that. Candy then met up with Rosa, and switched off. So Candy was my teacher, while Rosa went to board. I found out that I couldn't do much with slopes, but when it was kinda even, or a little slopeish, I could board. Candy stayed with me, and I got it a couple of times. I was going forward and stuff, but then I was going too fast, and tried to go back to the side position to slow down because I was facing straight down, I fell. Candy was practicing boarding backwards, and like she told me to bend my knees when I boarded. I tried that, but I couldn't do anything when I did. I bent my knees and like got a few inches and then *BOOM* I fell on cold snow. So then I tried it without bending my knees, and I got pretty far. Well there was a last slope before I finally reached the bottom, and like I got up and tried again. I got up on my board and went down the slope. I went a pretty far distance, when I lost control, and like fell. This was the ending factor of my day. I sprang my ankle. I felt pain on my ankle and like just sat up. Candy went up to me and I told her I couldn't do it anymore. I took off my board and just sat in the snow, waiting for my ankle to get a little better so I could just walk the rest to the bottom. Luckily I could still walk, and like my ankle didn't need any medical attention. And then I just sat down next to the vending machines and waited for everyone. It took me about 3 hours to go down one slope, while everyone else went on it like 4, 5, or even 6 times. I was happy though, I did a lot better and maybe next time we go, I will be able to go down it twice!! So after a fun day snowboarding, I was left with bruises on my palms, twisted wrists, a spranged ankle, a bruise on my arse, and soreness everywhere else! It was well worth it.

The ride back was interesting. After we returned all of the stuff, we took off for home. Henry went to drop off Linda and Rosa at their apartment, and like Anthony didn't know how to get there, so Anthony followed Henry and he told him, "Don't go too slow." Well, Henry did not go too slow at all. He was like flying down the mountain, and like Anthony was trying hard to catch up. Then Anthony's window started fogging up and like he couldn't see the road. Remember we were going down a mountain that had a lot of swurvey roads. So after debating which was was the best way to get rid of the fogged up windows, heater or AC, I decided to open the window and let the cold air defog it, and Tuoc wiped some away with a beanie. We were finally able to see and were flying down the mountain again. Henry tailgated a car and that car pulled over to the side. There was a passing lane and Henry was ahead like two car spaces. And like a car goes on the other lane, and passes Anthony. He decides not to pass it, and so now we are a car behind Henry. That was when everyone started making fun of Anthony, especially Tuoc. Well, after about an hour in the car, we finally reached Linda and Rosa's apartment. We chilled there for a while and then went back home. I got dropped off, and I went to change, and then went back into the car. Candy got dropped off, and then we all headed down to Anthony's house. When we got there, Anthony, and Henry changed, and to my surpirse, Rosa was in Henry's car. We didn't know Rosa was in the car. We thought she stayed at the apartment. Well, Tuoc decided to go home, and then we went to Candy's house and at first she didn't want to go, but then we perseuded her into going. We went to Coco's to eat. Truong called and met us up at Coco's. He wanted to go out and do something. After Coco's we then decided to go play CS, so we went to Nocturnal, and spent an hour and a half playing CS. It was a good day despite my injuries.