Lesson Day

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From Steamboat 2010

For several years, we've made it a habit to take a ski lesson on any ski trip that is more than four days long. Our lessons for this trip were originally scheduled for yesterday, but because of the uncertainty about the condition of my knee, we had them delayed so I could evaluate my ability to ski. This delay actually worked to our benefit.

We managed to get a couple of warm-up runs in before it was time to drop the girls off for their private lesson. They were spending the day with the same Australian ski instructor that they've skied with the last two years. We made sure they had money for lunch, and made arrangements to meet them after our group lesson ended at 3pm.

My wife and I had an hour to kill before our group lesson was scheduled to begin, so we headed up the mountain for some more runs. At 10am we made our way to the ski school meeting area, where the instructors were dividing people up into groups. We mentioned the instructor we skied with last year, and soon he walked over. As it turned out, he didn't think he was going to have a lesson group today, but was happy to work with us again. So, our group lesson was really more of a private lesson, with just my wife and I skiing with our instructor. While many of the drills were the same as last year, there were still lots of things for us to work on, and I think it will help me improve my skiing.

At the end of the day, we met up with our daughters and their instructor, and skied a few runs with them before calling it a day. The girls are becoming very good skiers, and probably will be better than their parents all too soon.