Snow Valley Resort

I went with my siblings to try out what the fuss was about pertaining to Snow Valley because my oldest brother and his friends insist that their favorite place to board is officially Snow Valley.  I was a bit skeptical because it is not a popular resort so I was thinking it was going to be another Mt High.  When we were almost there, there was a check point and even though our car had 4WD, they still made us turn around which was ridiculous because the condition wasn't even that bad!  Luckily for us, Vu lived nearby in Highland so we just went to his house and picked up his chains.  The worst part is that when we got back to the check point, the security check ended!  So that was a big waste of time.  Once we got to the resort, the parking lot was SO empty!  We geared up and headed on up.  It had snowed the night before but they still had massive snow machines every 10 ft apart running constantly and their man made snow was very good quality snow.  I was surprised at how long the trails were because Mt High's trails are short compared to Snow Valley's.  The angle of the slopes are much better than at Mt High even the easy trails because it was angled enough to still continue moving since no one wants to be stuck in the valley of death.  We were all testing out our new gears and I would of liked it more if my bindings were broken in more because the straps were so stiff that it was hurting my ankles so badly that it left a bruising.  My older brother and I were having problems getting off the lift with our new rocker boards because our bases are sintered so it was very slick and with its rocker shape there was less traction to slow down versus our extruded camber boards.  Unfortunately for my older brother, while getting off to do his 2nd run, his board slipped underneath him so he fell down in a weird manner and dislocated his shoulder so that ended his day.  Although it's not too bad because the lift tickers were dirt cheap with the 4 pack deal for 99 bucks.  Snow Valley was pretty sweet and pretty empty so you can have the whole place to yourself!

 
My backyard!


Durrr~

Shopaholic In Denial

I admit, I have been shopping a little more than I should but at the same time it would be wrong to not be shopping because for starters, nothing that I have purchased on my shopping frenzy has been full retail because I either got a percentage coupon on the entire purchase or the items were totally discounted.  Therefore, my savings on each item were about 20% to 70% off so if I were to purchased these items at a different time then poof there goes the extra savings I could of had.  At times, I just giggle to myself because we would literally rack up 800 bucks worth of stuff and end up only paying 100 bucks or so for it.  Although I do feel bad at times but not for the store but for the people that are in line behind us because we always buy so much crap so we take forever to finally check out of the store and leave.  So what's up with the crazy shopaholic behavior?  The only reason besides the killer sales is because we buy so much stuff from one store that we are only able to hit up about 2 stores before we head back home since the bags are so freaking heavy and we literally spend the whole time shopping and buying out the entire store so we have to come back a different day and shop at a different store.  We have issues so deal with it.

Make it snow!