Houghton, MI: Where your toes turn blue and the sky does not.

While the rest of our team was at Sugarloaf, eight of us ventured out into the most Northern part of Michigan. From the beginning, the temperatures were not so hot (literally) and we eventually figured out the best ways to brave the cold (taping our faces with weird things, covering our feet with weird foot cream, which is apparently the best selling product in Europe).

We did do some awesome skiing, though. As a team, we had our fair share of "good" and "bad" races, but our good ol' coach Jupham (we figured we needed a new nickname, after he told us we couldn't call him Jimmy like all his college buddies) kept us on our game, reminding us of the positive learning experiences we were having. 

Hallie hammering

Amy attacking

Snorel shining

Parker prancing

Sadie striding

Connor crushing

Corky cruising

Bria bombing

Parker took some time out out of his race to have a friendly chat 

In fact, Jupham was crushing it so much, we made a detour to Burger King before our last race to get him a YUMBO (a ham sandwich, basically) and a giant Pepsi. It was love at first sight to say the least.

We really did have some good times in Antarctica. The two of us skied a cool down one day when it was snowing really hard, and ended up on the ground in the powder rolling around and laughing. We took a few selfies, went on some windy runs, drank 14 cups of tea a day, and had some major sing-a-long sessions with James on the guitar. 

Today is Friday, and not to our amusement, we are still in Michigan. We might be here forever, but at least we are all together am I right?! (no)

Tonight we went out to dinner and Snorel ate a big slice of Peanut Butter Explosion. It was awesome.

Also this selfie James took is awesome.

#batescollegenotraction

We send our love to Maine and our families, and hope that we get back there someday. But for now, we will keep pushing our Chevy Malibu around and hope that tomorrow the wind is blowing 100 miles an hour instead of 10000. 

xoxo,

Amy and Hallie 

Thank you to skinnyski.com for all of the skiing pictures and to iPhones all over for the others!