I SKIED! ME! I SKIED!

I'm sooo sore! But skiing was SO WORTH IT!

The whole group of us, minus a few, had to get up sooo early to make it to the university so we could all take a bus up to las termas de Chillan. We all got there before 7 and I think we left by 7:30 or so? Anyway, about 2/3 of the way there we stopped at this small shop to rent ski and snowboard equipment for really cheap. It was only 6 mil pesos (12 bucks) for poles, boots, and skis. Everyone loaded up their stuff again and eventually we made it. The ride to las termas de Chillan took about 2 or 3 ish hours total I think... could've been shorter if we weren't on a stupid micro.

Well we got there, ate some food, geared up, paid half day and half price for our lift tickets (11 mil pesos or 22 dollars) and soon I found my self strapped to two skis holding two poles and not the slightest idea how to use them. Several times I asked myself what I got myself into...

Eventually Cheryl taught me how to ski: toes pointed in to stop, squat kind of like you're almost going to sit in a chair, keep balanced, et cetera.
After several runs, I got the hang of it! There were a bunch of long and winding trails we could take, and also some straight down simple ones.

There was one point where I was with Allison and Patsy (a chilean student who accompanys us sometimes) decided to take a lift we had never taken before. So we hopped on and sat. And went up... and up.... and up.... and up.... and up...
We kept going and all we could say was "Ohhhh mierda.... ohh mierda.... ohhh mierda... vamos a morir... vamos a morir...." (Translation, Oh shit, we're going to die.)
We get off the ski lift at the top and look down to our future death. IT WAS SO HIGH and we could have gone higher! The view was SPECTACULAR though! Outrageously beautiful! My camera was nice to me today too and WORKED well! SEE FACEBOOK FOR THOSE SHOTS, SOOO BEAUTIFUL! It was all sun today so I got all sorts of wonderful light and we could see so far from the top....
I'm so glad I did this, it was so insanely worth what I spent. It was only about 35 dollars for the whole day and thats pretty decent for a ski resort!

Words just can't describe, unfortunately...

The ride home was HELL but I don't even want to talk about it because the day was so wonderful :)

CAN'T WAIT TO PLAN MY TRIP TO ARGENTINA TOMORROW! I'm getting up super early to meet Cheryl, Hayley, and Allison at la plaza en el centro.