I hadn't been skiing in 5 years, and I was never really very good at it, so I was nervous for sure! Sam has a lot of skiing experience so I was just hoping I wouldn't be holding him back from having a good time. In the end I exceeded my own expectations and I was able to hold my own pretty well! It helped that we were at a really large resort for the last two days so we could take different routes down the mountain (me = nice and easy, Sam = crazy hard).
We skied the first day at Powder Mountain which, true to its name, was nice and powdery! It ended up being a snowy day so we were pretty cold and wet by the end. The awesome part was that there was basically no one else there, so we had the slopes to ourselves. I think it was a combination of it being Thursday and the fact that we were at a smaller, more local resort.
On Friday and Saturday we drove out to Park City Resort, which we originally thought might be crazy busy because the Sundance film festival was going on. But then we found a "buy one day, get one day for $10" deal on the lift tickets - turns out not that many people ski during the film festival so they were trying to get more people in. Park City resort was awesome and huge and we had nicer weather - cold but sunny and not too snowy. It was such a clear day and the views were incredible - I should have taken more pictures!
While we were there, we stayed with Dan & Mallory's friends Scott & Kelsey and they were awesome hosts! Scott was able to come snowboarding with us all three days but unfortunately Kelsey had to work. We had a lot of fun hanging out at their house though and trying out a lot of awesome local restaurants.
On Saturday night we stayed in Salt Lake City so that we would be closer to the airport in the morning. We went to dinner and did a bit of shopping at City Creek Center, which is one of those nice, new indoor/outdoor malls - but it is right in the middle of downtown Salt Lake! Sam & I enjoyed going to H&M since we don't have one around here, looking around some other stores and eating ice cream (we definitely did not hold back on the eating during this trip!).
Another nice part about the trip was that we were back home by about 3 on Sunday - it gave us a little bit of time to recover before heading back to work. Overall, I was very impressed with Utah - people were nice skiing was awesome, food was good! It would also be an awesome place to visit in the summer also for hiking and such. And I got to check another state off my list! (still 17 states left to go though haha)
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