Ammon Curtis

And this time, we took a slightly different approach.

As you can imagine, those individuals that were my friends that were the expert skiers, we don't really stay in touch.

But there are other friends that I have.

And we met up with a friend and went out to go snowboarding.

And my wife and I decided, hey, we're going to go get some instruction.

So the first day, we spent the half day going on this bunny slope getting instruction.

And one thing that the instructor said that stood out to me is he said,

He said, snowboarding is hard to learn and easy to master.

Skiing is easy to learn but hard to master.

And I thought, I don't know what that says about me since I never figured out the skiing thing.

But we spent the rest of the day as a family out there.

The end of the first day, as you can imagine, bruised.

I think my tailbone is still a little out of whack.

I had a lot of wrecks.

But at the end of the second day, I was riding the lift up for the second time on a blue with my son, who's 11 years old.

And I said, hey, man, how do you like it?

He said, I love it, Dad.

Now, mind you, this is the child that the day before was yelling at me halfway down the mountain saying, get away, Dad.

Don't even talk to me.

And I think it was because we spent the time to get some of the foundational pieces in place with a professional instructor.