black diamond...? Check

So let me tell you a little story about Alexis and Me.

The setting: Lexi's apartment, freshman year.

Somehow we start talking about things we want to accomplish in our lives, which then turns into things we want to accomplish before we get married. (this is because the things we want to do require us to be quite irresponsible... needless to say the two do not mix well.) So anyways, we have little things like:

• Hike the Y (which we have yet to do)
• Go camping somewhere fun (somewhat done, but not really)
  
• Exercise every day for a month (which we have yet to do)
• Take a dance class (check)
• Have a crepe party with more people than just ourselves (sadly, yet to be fulfilled)
• Test drive an expensive car (haven't done)
  

We also have larger goals, such as:

• Spend the summer in Europe (which will be accomplished this summer)
• Go scuba diving in California (check)
• Attend mass at Notre Dame de Paris (this summer)
• Watch all of the movies Lexi's parents own (I don't know if we will ever accomplish this)

And probably the most unlikely of all:

• Have boyfriends at the same time
  

So this is only a small example from our list of 70 things we want to accomplish (some of which are not able to be mentioned)

Anyways... Lex and I went skiing on Friday and accomplished one of our goals:

• Ski a black diamond

Now let me tell you something about this goal. It has kind of evolved over time, because technically we skied a black diamond last year while skiing with my parents, but to tell the truth we were scared out of our wits an going so slow that it can hardly be called skiing. Anyways, to take the ONE thing we learned in our History of Creativity class, we decided the guidelines for this accomplishment had to follow the guidelines of creativity:

• Value
• Intention
• Novel
• Excellent

So on Friday, we accomplished this goal based on these guidelines.

The setting: Sundance, UT. Bishop's Bowl.

It was definitely of value, we intended to do it, it was new, and we skied that run all day to the point where we got pretty good. Some would say excellent.

So there you have it. One more check on the list.

Here are some photos to commemorate the day:


Lexi and I on the ski lift

It was so warm that day that the parking lot was totally mud! We got our boots all muddy :(

After skiing black diamonds all day, things got a little tricky on the green circle...


Yard Sale, anyone?