Ski Trip

What is winter without a ski trip?

I went on one at Mont Edelweiss last Saturday. Okay, I didn’t exactly go skiing. The event was named such way because the main purpose was to ski or snowboard but I have to admit that I am pretty lame because, neither was on my to-do list at that moment.

I went tubing instead.

Tubing is the least adventurous winter sport. I don’t even know if it deserved to be called a sport… A higher altitude and speed were involved but all you have to do is sit in this huge tire and rely on gravity to slide down the slope. No balance or body movement or coordination were needed. Essentially, you just have to have a butt. :P

I tried snowboarding last year but I failed terribly at that and I was in no mood to try hard this time around. This might be my last winter so passing this opportunity to play with snow was not an option to me. So sad about this fact! :(

When I went tubing in my first year, we had to get on the ski lift and then slide down the slopes with tires provided at the top of the hill. However, this time, we had to carry the huge tire by ourselves and this was indeed the most exhausting thing to do. It was such a workout!

A variety of sliding down options were available. You could choose to slide down alone or in groups. You could have a circle or a train formation. You could go down while spinning or no spinning. They also have slopes with various steepness. We tried every single one of them including the highest one. The slope was so steep, you could barely see anything from the top. Being the scaredy-cat that I am, I closed my eyes half of the time I was sliding down. -_-

When we were all too tired to get up the slopes, we sat at the foot of the slopes and chilled out (no pun intended) like nobody else’s business.