On Friday afternoon we took a class trip to a cemetery. Why? We don't really know, but it was very interesting nonetheless. I mean, it was just a cemetery, I guess, but it was cool to see how old some of the graves were and what some of the people buried there did for a living while they were alive. I didn't take any pictures there because I thought it would be weird. I guess it was weird enough already, so I don't know why I was concerned, and now I wish I had some pictures.
Later that night we went to a bar that somehow had NO beer on tap (we won't be going back), and so I tried a bottled Croatian beer, which wasn't bad, but didn't hold a candle to the Weihenstaphan Hefe Weizen that I had after skiing today.
On Saturday we took a day trip to Hall in Tirol, which is a little town about 10 km east of Innsbruck. It seemed like a pretty nice place, but we had no way of telling for sure because it was cloudy and because literally everything was closed. So we just walked around for a bit and then got back on the bus and went home.
Hall in Tirol...try to contain your excitement.
As I implied earlier, today I went skiing for the second time, this time at Kühtai, which is another beautiful resort. I used my all my own equipment this time, which was pretty exciting. I'm happy to report that my total wipe out count dropped to zero, although I did have a few minor falls thanks in part to sudden narrowing of the runs and surprise moguls, but I was able to handle the red runs without incident. We ate lunch at a little rest hut in the middle of one of the runs. The food was delicious and we were seated with a couple of German dudes, one of whom had lived in Canada for three years and consequently spoke excellent English.
No caption necessary.
I also had a fairly embarrassing experience with a T-bar lift, which I had never used before. The first time Jonathan and I got on one we screwed it up and had to hang on to it with our arms for a bit before we finally rotated it and positioned it extremely uncomfortably around our backs (not under our butts, as is proper and encouraged). It was painful and awkward. Then I fell down. I really need to figure out how to use one of those things.
Mr. Ryan Jenks, looking classy. The backdrop doesn't hurt.
So, after a fairly eventful weekend, I'm pretty tired, and this post is long enough already, so I'll bring it to an end without further ado.
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