Little Sister

I started volunteering with Big Brothers Big Sisters a few weeks ago. This is my little sister, Yeimi (pronounced just like Jaime). I get to go play with her and her friends on Mondays after school. We hula hoop, play basketball, monkey bars, truth or dare and whatever other random games we come up with. She's super cute and very talkative. She loves the Jonas Brothers and hates brocolli haha. And she loves to take pictures on my phone lol. I think I may take a camera one day for us to play with.

I'm Alive

Just wanted you to know I'm still alive and kicking. I haven't posted for a bit...had a friend in town and been busy snowboarding. I'll make some time to post pics and such from the last few weeks. And just in case you wanted to know how tired my legs really are...I've snowboarded 15 of the last 19 days this month (not counting today yet).

Fever and Warranty

So I've finally made time to blog again. Here's an update:

I was really sick this past weekend. I woke up on Friday with a fever that didn't go away until Saturday night. It peaked at about 102 degrees and would vary between that and 100 degrees. Not fun...all I did was lay on my couch and sleep. I feel great now though :)

I've been filming a lot lately for my final project. I have a video production class and access to some really nice cameras. Obviously (I hope) I'm doing it on snowboarding. So most of my snowboard days have become filming days. Which to my surprise, I don't mind at all. I had a little incident last week though...

I had filmed some follow shots and then we stopped to film one rail for a few shots. I took off my snowboard and put it into the snow vertically. I moved up and got some shots. Then there was a huge gust of wind...I look over and my board had fallen. Then it started to slide...DOWNHILL and was gone. I had to walk the rest of the way down the mountain with my camera in-hand. People on the chairlift told me where it went and my friend Cheston found it for me.



To my surprise, my board (my baby) was fine. One of my bindings wasn't though...the heel cup (the C-shape at the top of the picture) was bent in. It was still ok to ride on...just felt weird and the high back didn't fit well anymore. Ride bindings have a lifetime warranty on bending on the heel cup and base plate. And I bought them from Backcountry which has a 100% return policy. But I wasn't sure what would go down since I bought them with my discount.

Well...I went to the Backcountry retail store today and WA-LAAA! New shiny bindings! Fast and easy! No problem!