Snowboarding baby!

Part of the things makes me feel good is doing stuff I never thought I would. When I was diagnosed with Crohns', I realized my life was about to change in a drastic way... Before I even knew what was causing the pain, I wasn't able to eat much. Everything I ate caused me pain... NO matter how much I wanted to eat it, I couldn't. That's when I started appreciating food... You never know when you cannot eat it any more. And I was right! So, before I knew I couldn't eat fiber I started eating salads, which I didn't ate before, vegetable, and all kinds of stuff that I didn't like before... And I promised myself that I would try everything at least once... I might write later a list of all the weird stuff ( no fiber) that I have tried :). But the point is, that I realized, that sometimes we take things for granted... Even adventures...

Here is where my story begins... I live on an Island in the Caribbean... My beautiful Puerto Rico... I can snorkel, do boat trips, kayak but, I cannot ski or snowboard... Oh, I forgot, I've swam with sea turtles... But, there isn't snow in PR!!

However, while visiting California this spring I realized: Well, I am not in Colorado nor Canada, but I am close to Tahoe... Yeah baby! There's snow in Tahoe!! I do not know how to do anything related to snow... But I do not care! :)

I started planning my trip, and I decided to drive to Tahoe with my friend. We stayed at this chick's house, who we contacted by a website where you can rent  room at someone's house or the whole thing. So, we rented her room. For our surprise, she was a snowboarding instructor! By the way, do you realize that I do not even own snowboarding stuff nor stuff for cold weather?... Well, this girl was kind enough to lend us her clothes and hook us up with some equipment...That's when I said... Let the adventure begin :)

I was all excited that morning... We drove to Kirkwood and started learning... Oh man! I fell sooooo many times jajajajaja But, it is the pain of adventure and I love it! Of course, we stayed at the beginners area, and I was able to go up and down the hill by myself twice! jajajaj I know is not much, but is more than I ever thought I'll do :)

And at the end... I was able to look back and say: DONE! to another thing from my list :)