Gabby's Senior Ski Trip

On March 1-3, i embarked on my last school ski trip ever. We woke up bright and early Monday morning around 5:30 to ride on the exhausting 8 hour bus ride to Snowshoe, WV. Usually on our trips we take around 4 buses for middle & high school girls and boys but this year we had only one bus...ugh. There was only about 15 total highschoolers while there were about 35 middle schoolers..most being the oh so energized boys. It was a LONG ride.

We arrived at the top of the mountain only about 100 yards from our hotel when our charter bus couldn't seem to get past one rather large snow bank. After 35 minutes of shoveling snow from under tires and many failed attempts we got past. We had some spare time before dinner and me and my best friend Katherine decided to make a snack from snow and blue gatorade. Then we discovered we had a large & deep sink in our kitchen area so we decided an ice sculpture was an order. We made a bodacious mermaid with no arms and put blue gatorade water around her and threw some goldfish in there you know to make it more realistic. We always have a chapel service in the evenings at my school for our trips where we were talked to about words of encouragement and trying to lead a positive influence on our peers.

After our service, we went over to Silver Creek for a tubing adventure. We were handed giant intertubes while instead of riding down them first, we chose to beat eavh other with them. Once in line, we were attatched to the "lift" to the top of the hill. Being the classy seniors we are, we decided to break every rule possible at the hill. This includes eating chemical snow (we didnt know till someone informed us), getting 4 people on one tube, contuniuing to beat each other with the tubes, and sing obnoxious songs. Silver Creek staff LOVED us. We got back on a bus to our hotel cold, bruised, and exhausted. I had a few new holes in my clothes too..

The next day we got to hit the slopes. Katherine and I went down every blue & green slope we could find. Katherine likes to take her time going down hills..I however am a straight down kinda gal. At times this had the potential of killing me cause once your going so fast you feel like your lifting off the ground it can be hard to stop...But me and katherine only actually fell once which is a new record! It was a COLD day with temperatures around 20 degrees but it was perfect conditions. We had a new fresh layer on powder and there was little wind which was quite the blessing.

Once we were in after around 6 hours of skiing we went inside to rest up before a group of us went to dinner. Katherine, Meghan, Becca and myself decided to go to a pizza place which has a reputation for bad service. Well the reputation was still true...20 minutes to take our order, 25 minutes to get our food..then we made the mistakes to get a pizza to go for our late night cravings. Well once we FINALLY paid for our food and got our pizza i relised i needed red pepper for my pizza so you know what? I took the whole shaker and I felt even :)

Later in the evening knowing it was our last trip here together we had to do something crazy. The 4 of us walk down to a place called the Shaver's Center where they have food and things of that nature we notice o one was in there when we walked in. SO we got 4 food trays so we could sled where ever we could. We tried tray-boarding which often left us on the ground. Pulling each other by scarves and the traditional go down way to steep of hills with bad equipment. WE had quite the laughs. After that we had a giant snow fight where we would take our trays and get a hefty amount of snow on them and nail each other with them.

I was very happy with my tray and now I have to tell you a story for this next story. Throughout the day for some reason i couldnt explain i would always nail metal pole on ski lifts with my ski pole and yell "CHECKPOINT!". SO i took my tray and saw a smaller metal pole and yelled "CHECKPONT" where the entire tray went through the pole and shattered. Me and katherine where on the ground laughing until we yes...peed.

One more memory in my senior year. Any time spent with the people I will no longer be able to see often next year was fantastic and memories will always be remembered. Last ski trip. Until we meet again...