Becky and I made it to Colorado last night and nothing seemed to go wrong (knock on wood): we had no delays, our bags and wax boxes all made it through, and we even had a nice man carry everything out to our car for us when we arrived in Denver. We've been in Colorado for about 24 hours now and between that and our travel day, a lot has happened. Below, please enjoy the "Becky and Sadie travel day to NCAAs" play-by-play:
Hour 0.0: Becky realizes she almost forgot her phone in her office.
Hour 0.5: Halie sends us off in Portland and takes the Yuke back to school (thanks gf)
Hour 4.5: Arrive in Charlotte, NC.
Hour 4.75: Becky states she is experiencing culture shock as we walk to the next gate.
Hour 5.5: Board flight to Denver. Becky has something "old and brown" on her seat and the flight attendant essentially claims that Becky is fine (fine in Halie Lange terms). Sadie also tries to fasten her seat belt with Becky's. She fails.
Hour 5.75: Becky equates us to teenagers because we're being those loud people on the plane that cannot control their laughter. Two minutes later, a flight attendant tells us to "settle down and stop texting."
Hour 9.0: Becky and Sadie do three deep, diaphragmatic breaths (a stress management technique that Sadie learned in Health Psychology) to control their stress levels when the plane starts shaking uncontrollably. The unfortunate man who was placed in the same row as us laughs.
Hour 10.0: Arrived in Denver. Becky leaves to get the rental car and Sadie collects two ski bags, two duffel bags, and two wax boxes. She proceeds to sit there for 30 minutes and is asked three times by the same man if she has somewhere to go.
Hour 12.0: Arrive at Vanda's, Becky's long-time friend and Nordic racer (they met at JNs), and are greeted by Inga, the cutest black lab ever. Becky finally sighs, acknowledging that the travel day is over.
Hour 14.0: Becky goes to sleep after 22 hours of being awake.
Hour 26.0: After driving to Summit County and saying different variations of "wow" probably 173 times, Sadie understands why everyone is so obsessed with Colorado.
Hour 27.0: Becky decides it's "time to check back in with the world."
Hour 29.0: Becky, Sadie, and Vanda go skiing at Frisco Nordic Center and ski for about an hour. In the words of Becky, "this doesn't suck." It was by far the best skiing we've had all year: blue sky, sunny, no ice, and more than 3k of groomed trails–imagine that! Max altitude was 9,315 ft. Lungs surprisingly feel good (channeled my girl KC during the ski, Snorey)
Hour 30.0: Becky orders Sadie to go stretch and roll, and then sit. Becky proceeds to go for a long walk with Vanda.
Tomorrow we're heading to Breckenridge to ski and having dinner in Vail with some Bates alumns. On Monday, we head down to Steamboat, pick up James, and get settled into our condo for the rest of our time out here. We'll get some more updates out, but here are some pictures for now!!
-Sadie
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| Beginning of the ski at Frisco |
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| Skiing on REAL snow...something we've had little of on the East Coast! |
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| End of skate ski at Frisco |
