Great Mid-Week Weekend

Matt and I both had Tuesday and Wednesday off this week, and we really took advantage of it! On Monday I finally got to enjoy one of the birthday presents Matt got me by going to the Matt Nathanson show. I will have to say that was one of the best shows I have ever been to! Thanks Matt! On Tuesday we woke up and headed up to Keystone for our first day of boarding! The snow was actually pretty good, and I didn’t kill myself! It took a while for my legs to get into it, but it felt awesome to get on the board again. Since they only had one run open we got fairly bored after 5 or 6 runs, even after switching boards for a couple of them. So around 2:30 we headed to the bottom and went to Parrot Eyes Bar for some wine, Connect Four and good conversation. By then we were getting hungry, so we went into Frisco for some Indian food. Yum! Since it was a first day boarding, we had to relax our bodies so we went to the hot tub at our condo where we continued to spend a couple hours time warping again with wine and good conversation. All of a sudden it was 9pm and we still had to drive home! So we stumbled out of the hot tub and went home to bed.

Wednesday morning we decided to take Seranno out for a good hike, so I took Matt up to my favorite spot: Chief Mountain. About half way up we started to see some spots of blood in the snow. I called Seranno over and we looked at her foot, which was bleeding really good, but not because of the snow, she ended up breaking one of her nails. It was pretty far down and hung at a 90 degree angle. It didn’t seem to affect her, she still ran up and down the trail, so we decided to keep going since I knew she wouldn’t be happy with me if we cut her hike short. She did fine, and we all made it to the top to enjoy the great views. It was very windy out, so we didn’t stay long at the summit. Seranno did decide that she didn’t want her nail anymore, so she proceeded to tear off her whole nail. Rather disgusting, but it seemed to make her happy, so ok. At first on the way down it seemed that the bleeding had slowed down, but then it started up again, in full force. Every time she stopped, even for a short amount of time, she would leave a big puddle of blood. At one point she way laying off of the trail chewing on a stick, and when we came up to her we saw a weird spray of blood next to her. After looking closer we saw that blood was squirting out like liquid out of a syringe. That freaked me out pretty good, so we started walking a bit faster. When we finally made it back to the car I took out my first aid kit and ended up wrapping up her foot and covering it with one of my socks, but not before she bled some large spots in my car. Once we got home we soaked her foot is some warm water and hydrogen peroxide and then wrapped it back up. Up close it looked really nasty and painful, but she is a trooper and handled it very well. She will have to take it easy for a while to heal up good, and hope her nail grows back, but she will be up and running again in no time!

Other than the excitement of Seranno’s foot it was a wonderful weekend spent with the only person I could imagine. There is never a dull moment…