Archive for January, 2009

Skiing!

Friday, January 30th, 2009

I just went on our annual skiing trip with my scout troop. This year we went to Winterplace, in East Virginia.

Friday: We arrived at the church, where Phillip and Scott were waiting for everyone to arrive. We started moving the boxes to the trailer, and as everyone arrived, they started helping too. When we finished, we said goodbye to our parents and piled into the van. It was a long way to the campsite, a couple of hours I think. We set up our tents and got into our sleeping bags quickly to avoid the cold.

Saturday:
We woke up and it was FREEZING cold outside! Literally- it was 18 degrees or so. We forced ourselves out of our sleeping bags, and ate a breakfast of bagels and hot chocolate. We all jumped into the van and drove up to the slopes, where we filled out paperwork for 20 minutes or so, then we received our ski gear and hit the slopes. Phillip and I skied together, and it was very fun. After that, we headed to the campsite, and Timothy stepped through some ice, getting his foot sopping wet.He spent most of the night sitting by the fire trying to dry his sock and his foot.

Sunday: We packed up and headed home.

The symphony

Friday, January 16th, 2009

It’s that time again! A year has passed since I last went to the symphony. My dad found a couple of his blogging friends, and started talking with them for half an hour or so, but then we were told it was time to go in because it was about to start. We headed in and took our seat, near a couple of dad’s friends. They played music by Bach, and it seemed familiar. Probably because of all those movies with orchestras in it. It sounded like it would make good background music also, so I’m sure I’ve heard it before in some movie before. After they finished playing, we headed to the blogger’s reception, where we met the director and the soloist, plus dad got to converse with his blogging friends. There was wine and cheese, but I couldn’t have the wine, and I don’t like cheese, so I didn’t eat anything. I puked for some unknown reason towards the end, though I was in the bathroom so no one noticed. After that we left, and went home.

Today, most of the schools around us were closed because of the FREEZING weather, or were at least delayed, but we had to go anyway! It wouldn’t be so bad if everyone around us didn’t close…