[Now I'm back to creating posts in retrospect. I didn't have time to pre-compose any further postings]
Wednesday concluded my ski school experience. I got the same instructor that I had on Tuesday, luckily. He said we would warm up on the hill we had skied on previously and would graduate to the big chair lift if we appeared ready to ski a bigger hill. In my heart I knew I wasn't ready and was already planning to stay on the smaller hill if given the choice. As fate would have it, (or maybe God planned it? : ) ) the platter lift on the smaller hill was broken so we had no choice but to graduate. I rolled off the big chair lift and fell to the ground but the operator pulled me out of the way before I got hit by the chair behind me : ) Finally skiing a real downhill slope was a huge challenge for me, mentally. The instructor knew it would be for the whole group so we did it in little bits at a time! The hill wasn't any steeper than what we had practiced on, just longer and dotted with pine trees. I did it, slowly, but I did it! I fell a few times but again, didn't hurt myself.
After lunch, I did one more run down the smaller hill I knew well then packed it in for the day. I spent the rest of the afternoon exploring the village around the lodge and taking pictures. It snowed periodically throughout the three days we skied and made for some nice pictures.
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