A Visit From Ryan

Ryan and I have been planning to go snowboarding together for a long time now. He is a member of the Ski Club in his high school and they come up to Utah once a year and go to 3 different resorts. So I met up with Ryan and we headed up to The Canyons. It is the biggest resort that I have ever been to. The plan was for Ryan to come home and spend the night with me and Katie but we were afraid that his teachers would not let him. They were cool though and they had no problem with him spending the night.

I was hoping to get in on the school discount because I was with the group. Bit when I went to the ticket counter with one of the teachers in charge, they could not even find the tickets that the school had ordered. When they finally found them he said that he could not add me in to get a school discount. But the guy felt bad for having us wait so he gave me half off! Good story.

We were boarding with Tyson and Brandon Niccole. Tyson had been there before and he knew his way around. We pretty much followed him around and he took us to some pretty crazy places. I mean they were almost straight down and covered in trees! It was fun though to go with Ryan. He is pretty good. We both hit a few trees, but not too bad. Our goal was to go from one side of the resort to the other and back in one day. We did it. I was so tired I could barely move by the end of the day, but we made it.

On the way back I was in a hurry to get back to the Temple on time. I took what I thought was a short-cut through Midway instead of driving through Heber, but when we came to the highway we saw a car go by that had been behind us and had gone through Heber! So it was not much of a short-cut and Ryan was teasing me. Luckily, we made it on time and Ryan got to hang out with Conrad while we were at the Temple. Then we played Rock Band and went bowling. Ryan is great to hang out with. I wish that I could hang out with my family more often.   -Ransom