Awesome Birthday Ski Weekend!

So, its happpend! I am 17! I've been dreading this moment all year! I dont like to grow up and I thought that turning 17 was just way too big, your practically an adult! But then my birthday rolls around, and i think to myself, "oh this isn't that bad!" I feel the same way I felt yesterday! Anyway, this birthday was exra special. My best friend Grace came up from Fernie to spend two night with me and my family up at our condo in panorama, to go sking. My grandparents own the condo. They love panorama and the love watching my sister and I have fun swimming and skiing when there. Anway, Grace and I had planned a birthday ski weekend a long time ago. We had done it once before and loved it so we thought it would be extra special to do it on my birthday. Last year we went up for only one night, but it was a lot of work for my mom to get everything ready that we just didnt think one night was quite worth it. So this time we went up for two. We mainly relaxed and hung out and got to know eachother again. Grace is my absoulute best friend of my age! There is no other 16 or 17 year old in school that I can feel more myself wth than her. Its hard to get a conversation going with other kids for me because I feel a little awkward, but with Grace it's easy. We talk a lot and we tease eachother contantly. It's great feeling so comfortable with your friend that you can tease eachother and no get offended by it. It was great to see Grace and her mom, and what was even better was to be able to ski together on my birthday! Now that is pretty magical. Grace was nervous at first to ski. She hasn't done it in a year. However , everyone welcomed her with big hearts and made sure she ghad everything she needed. By the time she was going down the hill she was screaming with joy. It was so amazing to have too best friends in sitskis skiing right beside eachother on the mountaibn. We would have races to see whitch sitski woud get down the hill first. One of our instuructors set up an obstacle course for us. That was fun! I got to practise skiing with two hands! My left hand doesnt cooperate that well and you can hold outriggers to help you steer and I usually use one for my good right hand. But on sunday I wanted to try to ski with two outriggers. I tried it before when I first went sitskiing but it didn't go well. My left hand just dragged the outrigger. This time it worked! I was even turing it a bit! That was really neat to see how I could do that now! i was very excited! After shredding up the hill, the ski group always goes in for hot chocolate! Grace made chocolate cupcakes for my birthday so we had those and hot chocolate! Everyone sang happy birthday! It was awesome. I dont think I could have asked for a better birthday! Even my sister came up for one night and she helped out another sit skier. It was wonderful! Grace and I have done so many things together, and it is out of this world that we can ski together, especially to make it happen on my birthday! Thankyou to all the sitski volunteers for organizinng this and for helping us out! You really made this birthday a special one!