Skiing in the States
107 Thursday Ruidoso, NM
Lilys brother slept downstairs in the living room and woke up me up a couple of times moaning and talking. It sounded very weird! Everyone eventually dragged themselves up and stated the purpose of today was to go skiing. That sounded fine but when you looked outside there was no snow… I dressed myself up in all my appropriate clothes, such as they were and piled the teenagers into the back and headed up to the mountain. At least we had an hour of decent music on the way. We followed the winding road and a few cars and at around 2pm we made it to the Ski Apache field. There was snow, not a massive amount, but most of the lifts were shut. It certainly felt cold enough to go skiing. I wasn’t going to bother but Dani‘s dad offered to pay for my gear for the day so I had a dilemma. The lifts were due to close in an hour or so, so a half day lift pass would probably be a waste of money, by the time we got our gear sorted. I said I would give everyone a ski lesson and we got kited out. It was pretty much a waste of time though, it was about -6 degrees, no one was wearing the right clothes, or even enough of the wrong ones. We were going 50m down a slope and then having to walk back up. Stephi and Dani were doing surprisingly well though, I didn’t watch Raphi since he said he had been several times before. We did about an hour and gave up and went for hot chocolate.
On the way back we went via the local Indian Reservation Casino, more for a look than to gamble, but it looked just as crazy as the vegas ones. I should know better but a Star Wars slot machine caught my eye and before I knew it I had blown another 6 dollars on 2 spins of the wheels. It was the only way to win the $1.5m prize, but I’m a sucker and after 2 spins with multiple chances to win at least something I got nothing out of it. What worse is that I didn’t have any change so put $20 in knowing I could cash out and get a redeemable voucher. When I came to get my $14 back the stupid machine broke and we then stood around for 20 minutes waiting for someone to give me back my $14. I’m never gambling again!
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