Skiing and Learning to Snowboard

During January of 2011, my family and a couple of other families went to Massanutten Resort for a four-day weekend trip.  For the first two days, I skied, which I have been doing since I was little.  I went down some black diamond slopes, and while I know that I have room for improvement with carving to slow down on the mountain, I wanted to try something else.  So the next day, I decided to try snowboarding, which I have never done before.  I decided to take a class so that I would have some idea of what I was suppose to do, since snowboarding and skiing are so different.  After and hour long class, and a number of falls, I decided to continue to try by myself.  For the next two days, I continued snowboarding.  I think that the hardest thing is getting off of the lift.  I may have gotten off without falling about 1/10 of the time.  Besides that, I think I got the hang of snowboarding pretty well.  By the end of the weekend I had even managed to go down some of the blue slopes.  Also, I worked with my brother and dad to help us all get the hang of snowboarding.  We gave each other tips and suggestions on what we thought we were doing wrong.  I am excited for next winter so that I can work on snowboarding even more.