Lately is has also been very cold. Like single digits cold. Even when the sun's shining. Yesterday I went to the barn to check on my bunny Oliver. His water had been thawed that morning, and I went out at lunchtime. I walk into the stall where his hutch is and, yep, both the bottle and dish of water were frozen solid again. So I go up to the milk room for hot water because there isn't any in the barn. And just during the ten second walk up the hill, my hands literally were hurting as from the cold as typed in the code to unlock the door.....
This oh so interesting story will continue, but now Mariah is bugging to come get ready because we are heading out soon for a fun and freezing day of skiing and snowboarding at Snö Mountain!:)
So I got into the milk room and wait a minute until my fingers are able to move then I begin to thaw the water bottle. When I finish I head back to the barn. I reach for the barn doorknob. Stick. Like a tongue to an ice cube. My hands were still wet, which made them even colder, and the bitter wind didn't help anything. I pulled my hand away as soon as I felt it start to stick, and tried again, but faster this time. I went back to Oliver and as I unlocked the latch on his cage, once again my fingers stuck to the frozen metal. It was a beautiful sunny and blue skied day, but that didn't do much against the nine degree weather. And who knows how cold it was with the windchill.
The night before was Velocity. Mom was debating whether or not I should go because I kinda had a cold. "Abby, are you sure you feel up to going?"
"Yes, I'm really fine."
"I don't know why I even ask. I don't trust you, because you'd never say you weren't okay. You'd go even if you were dying."
Which is probably true. But hey, being homeschooled, it's not like I see my friends everyday. So Alezah drove me and we went to Panera Bread for dinner, and then she dropped me off. A bunch of people were outside around a couple of fires and as I walked around the building, I slipped on a patch of ice. My arms went flying and my legs tried to, too. I didn't totally wipe out and I got my feet under control before they took off, thank goodness, but it was definitely noticeable. Yeah, leave it to me to make a graceful entrance haha.
As we were leaving the parking lot, the truck's thermometer read 10 degrees. As we neared home, it dropped to 9. Then 8. Then 5. Then 3. Alezah and I wondered if it would hit zero or drop to the negatives. Then it hit 1. My eyes didn't leave the thermometer. And then, 0. I didn't think it would go any lower, but not a minute later it dropped to -2. I was so happy. Don't ask me why, because I'm not even sure why. I guess I just love cold nights, and find something fun about ones that drop to the negatives. And it was only like 9 o'clock. It probably got even colder as the night went on.
Oh, and btw, we had a blast at Snö. It was just Alezah, Mi, Kate, and me. Alezah snowboards, so Kate and I decided this would be a good time to learn. Neither of us had ever been before. Mariah just stuck to skiing though. And I was horrible. But I loved it. I think I still like skiing better, though. But I think that's just because I've been skiing since I was little. If I could actually get down the bunny hill without falling ten billion times, I think I'd like it just as much as skiing, if not more. I snowboarded most of the day, but I also brought my skis with me just in case I wanted to switch. So at the end of the day I decided to do the couple run on skis.
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| The first couple runs were a little rough... |
