Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Clearly I am a Wus!

Today my husband, his brother and his brother's wife and I all went to Park City Resort to ride the Alpine Slide.

This activity costs $11 a person. You buy a ticket. You get on a chair lift (which is a lot harder to do without skis and snow than you might think). You ride up pretty high above the steep inclines. You jump off the chairlift at the midway station (which means it doesn't stop moving) and you quickly step to the left (which means if you are me you almost fall over...I almost fall over with skis on in the snow off of every chair lift as well, so for me, it's not a big surprise). You pick up a 400lb sled and drag it a mile to the slide beginning. You stand in a line with little kids screaming and adults acting stupid. You then lug the sled and put it on the bobsled looking tubey thing and sit on it. You look down and see that if you push all the way forward you are on wheels and if you pull all the way back you are on a brake. You push your way up to the edge and look down and freak out. You push off when the woman tells you to do so and (if you are me) you neither push all the way forward nor pull all the way back. This sends you in a draggy motion down a steep ride and causes the old man behind you to bump you in the behind when he catches up to you and causes your husband to laugh at you for not being brave enough to actually ride the ride.

I do not like the Alpine Slide.

2 comments:

Eris said...

Yes, you are a wus. But Bryson has a patch of skin the size of a matchbox car that was ripped off his elbow when he went TOO FAST on the Alpine Slide.

Unknown said...

HAHAHA!!