Bizzaro Skiing

This weekend I had the pleasure of heading down to Esher (pronounced E-sher) and paying £10 to go "dry skiing." This unbelievably bizarre experience lead to many bruises, but was actually pretty entertaining. A good thing to do to get back into the game or to get started for cheap though.



Basically, dry skiing involves a small hill, a huge pipe-cleaner like mesh, a bunch of dumb Brits, and one dumb American. I was originally told we were going to the indoor slope with real snow, but that costs a lot more and I lost the vote. So there we were, going down on real skis and trying to turn on this crazy mesh thing. I fell a lot! So my knee did ok, but now my hip hurts. Quite an experience.

Here's a zoom in of what the floor looked like:



It was pretty hard! Reminds me of skiing on ice back home. :-)

Here's my flatmat Natalie on her first run. She was pretty good at the snowplow by the end of the day.



Here's the rest of the pics:
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Anyway, we had a good time and I feel better about my trip to Austria next week. I imagine I'll get some better pictures there.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I've been trying not to think about the fact that it is actually tomorrow because I'm having a few friends over on Saturday and trying to cook. Everyone will be bringing wine, so even if the food is bad we will have something nice to wash it down. And Tristan will be here! Nice to have a fellow expat to share missing Thanksgiving with.

Ok, I hope all you Americans eat a lot and have a great time this week. Fall asleep in front of a football game for me.

Cheers,
Dan