Freestyling - A Dad's Tale of the Bad & the Good (and meeting competitive parents!): July 2008

Wednesday 9 July 2008

Nose

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> A Nice little picture of my nose, very swollen on the right side.

Fwd: Whistler, Diary - Almost Broken Nose

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> Hey Guys
> The diary is interesting today as you may have gathered from the
> subject of the email
> Sunday 6th
> I got up today and headed down to breakfast. Woodsy was coming up
> today, just to ski around as he has hurt his knee, which is unlucky
> considering he is coming to Saas Fee for a month with me after
> Whistler. The weather was really overcast which was annoying; I was
> hoping to get 3rd time lucky with nice weather. But the rest of the
> week is meant to be sunny, which I look forward to. We had a
> different coach today as usual. I went straight back up the mountain
> with one intention, to land the trick I had been trying all day
> yesterday, and I did it 3rd time lucky, was really happy. I also did
> some work on the jumps, and after that headed to lunch. It was quite
> late after lunch so I didn't think it was worth starting to ride
> again, so I headed down. When I got down, I did some stuff on my
> laptop, and then swimming again. Swimming was good, we went for a
> quite a while. I watched some tele after swimming before waiting for
> dinner. Dinner was at a Mexican place, it was good food even though
> I didn't eat it all. After dinner we went to supermarket to get some
> food or the prize for winning poker, and then played poker. At one
> stage I was on the verge of winning but then I lost, so no food for
> me. I then watched American Pie 2 and 3 with woodsy before going to
> bed.
> Monday 7th
> As it was our rest day today, I was lucky enough to sleep in till
> 10. I went straight for breakfast, which wasn't at Merlin's today;
> it was pretty much a full English breakfast, except it wasn't
> English. After breakfast I messed around on my computer on the
> Internet until 1 o'clock where I then headed to paint balling. It
> was so much fun, and in the last game I took down a man with a head
> shoot. Boom!! I was super hot after paint balling so I decided to go
> swimming. We went for dinner after swimming, it was at a place
> called 21, really nice pasta. After dinner I didn't do much for a
> while and then ended up playing a long tactical game of poker before
> going to bed.
> Tuesday 8th
> I woke up to a blue sky without a cloud in sight. I was so happy
> ready for a good day of skiing. So as every other day I went to
> breakfast and then headed up the mountain. I must have spent a good
> hour helping the diggers getting the park in shape and then we were
> split into our groups. We started out by hitting the rails as the
> jump was taken so long to open. But when it did open I got straight
> on it, my first run was really fast and then I took another run on
> the jump and it was much slower. I came short of the knuckle and
> smashed my nose so hard in to my knee. So I chilled out in the
> Salomon tent, where a medic in the tent saw me and she took me to
> the top by skidoo. From there I downloaded down the lifts to the
> bottom> I got to the hotel and Melanie took me to the clinic. When I
> got there the receptionist was really unprofessional, she said I
> would have to have plastic surgery on my nose, and I wouldn't be
> able to fly back on Friday. But when I actually saw the doctor she
> said my nose isn't probably broken, I just need to ice to let the
> swelling down. So I was a little more relieved, I went back to the
> hotel to ice my nose and I plan to go back tomorrow to maybe have an
> x-ray. As Woodsy is injured I went for lunch with him.
> Cheers
> Josh

Monday 7 July 2008

Fwd: Diary Update

Begin forwarded message:

From: josh birch <josh.birch@googlemail.com>
Date: 7 July 2008 02:10:03 BST
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Subject: Diary Update

Hi Guys,
Just another diary update...

Saturday 5th
I got up and did the usual routine of getting breakfast at Merlin's and then heading up the mountain. The weather was really bad today with it raining and being cloudy. We had a different coach today. I started out with hitting the jumps, but the mist came in so we soon couldn't do that. Pretty much the rest of the day I spent trying to do a trick onto the rail, which I still didn't get. It was one of those things that are easy but also hard. I went to lunch later today, and then headed down rather than going to ski more. In the afternoon it was raining, so we stayed in and went swimming. We killed time by chilling out in the hotel room on the Internet checking emails, etc whilst waiting for dinner. We went to the Spaghetti bar for dinner and it was really good. Although I had a migraine so my meal was ruined because I wasn't feeling good. On top of not feeling good, I somehow managed to lose my wallet with $250 in along with my bankcard. I managed to get my bankcard cancelled but haven't got the wallet back. The most annoying thing about losing the wallet was I didn't plan to spend all of the money, so I could have given some back to my dad. I was really annoyed after dinner, but I played poker and then started watching a film before I fell asleep.
Sunday 6th
I got up today and headed down to breakfast. Woodsy was coming up today, just to ski around as he has hurt his knee, which is unlucky considering he is coming to Saas Fee for a month with me after Whistler. The weather was really overcast which was annoying; I was hoping to get 3rd time lucky with nice weather. But the rest of the week is meant to be sunny, which I look forward to. We had a different coach today as usual. I went straight back up the mountain with one intention, to land the trick I had been trying all day yesterday, and I did it 3rd time lucky, was really happy. I also did some work on the jumps, and after that headed to lunch. It was quite late after lunch so I didn't think it was worth starting to ride again, so I headed down. When I got down, I did some stuff on my laptop, and then swimming again.

Hope you like it,
Josh

Fwd: Whistler, Canada - Diary

Josh,

Thought I'd find you a few more to email!!!!

Aunts, Uncles, Godmothers, etc, etc.............

Dad

NB note Matt's new add's and Bob's work email add??