Honeymoon Laughs

The other day my husband and I were talking with our nephew about ice skating and skiing. He and his lovely girlfriend had gone skating for the first time. They are both adults, but have grown up on the Mississippi gulf coast, just like my honey! So it's not that rare that they've never gone skiing or skating. Worse than that- our nephew is 21 and has never seen snow! Crazy I know. I grew up in North Carolina, where we had a blizzard now and again and it snowed every winter and we had ice every month from December through March. When we were planning our wedding, my sweet step grandmother gifted us her week at a resort through her timeshare! We were so blessed not to have to pay for our honeymoon! We had a week in the mountain of Virginia. We went night skiing the 2nd day we were there. My husband had never been on skis, so I was nervous. I had double checked with my life insurance agent that our insurance was in fact in tact before he clicked on those skis! We went up the mountain and I explained to my honey how to slow down, but didn't have him much advice before he took off down the mountian. I forgot to remind him to work the mountain back and forth, not just go straight down. Oops. So you can imagine what happens next, he flies down the mountain screaming MOVE! MOVE! And they all did- He didn't know how to stop either- so he just decied to use the tuck and roll method. It worked, and thankfully he didn't run into anybody or any ski racks! He found a nice pile of snow to fall into. The next day we spent our day coming down the mountain- but not on ski's, this time we were tubing. It was so fun. I had never gone before, that was new to me. They didn't have those types of places when I was growing up. We would sled down the hills and roads near our house- but never tube down them! I loved it. I felt it was much safer! I will say that, Chris had a rough start on ski's, but only that first run. The next several hours and times we went skiing he did perfectly fine. I had been skiing since I was five years old, and he looked like he had been too! I loved  our honeymoon. We spent a lot of time cuddled up in our nice villa. We went out to eat at several nice places and got to see fresh snow fall. It was magical! Just talking about it now, makes me want to go back again! Maybe we need to plan our anniversary trip up there! We could go after Christmas and celebrate our anniversary early... I wonder if we could get the same villa! That would be amazing!