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Snowboarding Reaper!
Posted by Andy on Mar 20, 2011 @ 10:50am

Hey peeps, I just wanted to take a second to let you know that Matt, Brink and I are back from our SNOWY adventure in New Mexico and it was.....AWESOOOOMMMME!

I have to share a story that happened to me while going down the mountain.  I always say that if I was not living to be a rockstar, then I would love to be going for a professional snowboarding career.  I by no means am an expert at boarding, but there is something in my soul that is liberated when I go every year.  Normally, I go to Denver and stay with my brother and sis-in-law, but this year, Brink invited us to go with him to Santa Fe, NM.  We were not disappointed.  The snow came down one day about as hard as I have ever seen and I'm from the north and have seen my share of blizzards.  Anyway, on one of my runs, there was a little 5 or 6 year old girl going down the mountain very slowly and everytime I would cut, she would cut at the same time and in the same direction.  When I finally realized that there is not much I can do to avoid this munchkin, I rapidly put on the brakes to stop and give her time to  work out her path before continuing.  However, by the time I came to this conclusion....it was too late.  I slammed back on my board to come to screeching halt, spraying snow all over her back side, through both my arms under her armpits and sat down just in time.  Now, by the time I got to her, I was virtually stopped, so no harm was done and it literally could not have been a softer landing.  I simply asked her if I could help her up and if she was ok.  Her dad came "to the rescue" quickly, but wouldn't even acknowledge my attempts to apologize or assist the little one up.  I kept asking to help and still he would not so much as look at me.  The poor little girl looked like she had seen a ghost and was holding back, with great success, every ounce of screaming and crying.  She looked terrified.  I didn't know why since the landing was extremely padded with my "Charmin Toilet paper/Stay Puff Marshmallow" snow pants and jacket....then when I got to the bottom of the run....Matt and Brink reminded me why she might have had reason to be scared....here is what I looked like.

So, to my little snow bunny...if you ever read this when you grow up, I'm sorry I didn't pull my ski mask down and let you see I was not the Grim Reaper. (Though, as Brink pointed out, my XMen Wolverine chops might not have given her much more comfort.)

Am I really that scary of a guy?   NAHHHHH.

Love you all!  Thanx for humoring me.

AndiRoo