day trip

i am shattered.

just got back from our day in the mountains with the office. it was so much fun! we started with 2 hours of snow-tubing. and because all the other queues were long, i went to start with a red slope (meaning, mediumly difficult, blue being easy and black very hard), and so we all ended up up there, to face, we soon discovered, a near-90° angle! oops. i screamed all the way down - we'd been told we were allowed to scream if we wanted to, and it certainly released the tension of going that fast. i'm not a big fan of fast if i can't control it... i really liked the black where we kept going up and down the bobsleigh-like course. it was so much fun. and the slope where 2 to 4 people could be joined and go together was excellent. and in the tunnel, i had this irrational fear that i'd hit the roof, but got down in one piece.

after a very quick lunch, we then went to our curling lesson. it's basically like lawn-bowling on ice. i guess Scottish weather was never really that good ;) anyway, i was really looking forward to that, cos let's face it, how often do you get to try that out? and it was fun, but there were a lot of falls and we'll all be covered in bruises tomorrow, that's for sure. i really got the hang on sliding the stone off, but unfortunately in a straight line, which would only ever work for the first 'toss', seen as the other stones are supposed to 'curl' around on the left or on the right. we all agreed that after this experience (it's a lot of hard work), we'll never again dismiss it as an easy sport...