WEDNESDAY, December 26, 2007
Pick Jason up at airport around 1pm. We head back to Sanger and get loaded for the ski trip. 6pm we leave for Colorado. Drive ALL night long.
THURSDAY, December 27, 2007
Get into Winter Park around lunch time. I had slept about 15 minutes worth. Eat lunch, get rental equipment, and check in the YMCA. Eat dinner, have meeting, go to bed around 10pm. Big day of skiing planned for tomorrow.
FRIDAY, December 28, 2007
1:01 am – Joel calls my cell… baby’s coming (Rena is pregnant back in Sanger and not expected to deliver for a few more weeks. We wake John up to take Joel to Denver. I tell Joel to go pack and send John to get Patti’s keys, I call the front desk to see if there is another (better) way to Denver other than the one we were thinking of. Nothing. Joel’s packed, John’s dressed and ready. Patti stumbles out of her room with blood streaming down her face. She had taken a Tylenol PM @ 9pm and while searching for keys she hit her head against the wall or something. She is about to pass out. Joel, John, & I are attending to her. I decide to take her to the nurse while John gets Joel to the Airport in Denver. We carry Patti to my van, I drive her to the front office. I have to pick her up over my shoulder because there is snow on the ground and she has no shoes on. The front desk was no help. The closest place is Granbury Medical Center 7 miles away. I drive back to get Patti some more clothes, shoes, and Insurance card. It was now that I realized how cold it was outside… -7 (wind chill was -22 according to weather.com) On the way back to the lodge, I pass Joel and John, and they tell me that Rena’s water had not broken it was something to do with her bladder. Joel and John decide to take Patti to the Medical Center. I lay back down at 3:30am and can’t sleep because my adrenalin is working overtime.
Wake up at 6am begin a day of skiing!
SATURDAY, December 29, 2007
Joel get’s the call that Rena is back in the hospital. (As it tunred out her water had broken that night and she was in labor ever since. John & Patti take him to the airport. Jason, Caho, and I decide to go down a Black slope with a sign which read, “WARNING: This trail is a long and steep run with no escape to easier terrain: Experts only!” So what do we do… we go down it. It was a bad decision.
SUNDAY, December 30, 2007
While on the slopes, Kaity wipes out and her skis fall off. One boot hits her in the knee of the other leg. She was obviously hurt and we ended up calling the ski patrol and they took her down the mountain in the stretcher.
The wind was blowing so strong that they began shutting the lifts down. We came off the mountain around 2pm and decided we wanted to try and get everyone back to the YMCA instead of waiting for the bus at 5pm. Around 3:30pm we had everyone loaded up in two vehicles (we had to pick Kaity up at the bottom). At one point while I was running on a back road to go get Kaity I heard over the intercom… “Warning, this is a restricted area. You are not allowed to enter this area.” Then the message repeated in Spanish. It was very exciting. I felt like Jason Bourne or something.
One vehicle went and returned the skis and the other took 16 people back to the YMCA (it was a big van). On the way back to the YMCA the weather was so bad it was causing whiteouts on the road. We could not see anything. We finally made it back and we began to pack up and get dressed for the trip back. After dinner we had heard that a bus was blocking the entrance to the YMCA and there was no way in or out. This turned out to be a rumor. However the weather and high winds caused the Highway Patrol to close Berthoud Pass which was the way back to Denver. The other option was to take Kremmling Pass about 2 hours out of the way) but it was closed as well. We were stuck! Snowed in is more accurate.
Jason and I thought we would go down to the main office and see what was going on. While we where there I noticed one Korean guy slap another Korean guy. By slap I mean the kind that catches your attention and you think, “Wow, that was too hard to be joking around. When I glanced again he hit the guy again. At that time I knew I needed to jump in but thought I should get Jason to help ‘just in case.’ I called for Jason to ‘come here’ and as I rounded the corner I saw the guy how hit the other one raise his foot and kick him square in the face (the victim was sitting on the fireplace). That’s when I jumped in and held the attacker back. He was taller than me but I had him weight wise. I was thinking, “What in the world am I going to do if he comes after me?” I knew he might get a cheap shot in on me but that I would be able to take him to the ground. Luckily he never came after me. Between Jason and I we were able to separate them both until ‘security’ got there. Interesting to say the least.
So we slept an extra night at the YMCA and headed out on Monday morning. We should make it back to Sanger on Tuesday morning sometime. We are currently in Pueblo, Colorado.
MONDAY, January 1, 2007
5am we roll into Sanger. 22 hours after we left the YMCA. The trip took us an extra 6 hours because we had to go the back way. As it turned out we were still earlier than if we had waited until they opened up I 70.
Got a couple hours of sleep and then the kids woke up. Daddy’s home! That’s all they cared about. It was all I cared about to.
3 comments:
wow... we had quite the trip! ha ha ha! p.s. im convinced my knee is going to be fine. but im goin to the doc just in case!
Kristen and I have decided this story reads like a Jackie Chan screenplay.
I would have loved to see you and Jason throwdown redneck-style up against some karate. (please read last word as ka-rah-tay.)
dude. crazy week, indeed! [i laughed out loud at the part where you said you felt like jason bourne.]
hahaha.
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