Over spring break  my family and I went to Whistler, Canada.  We drove for 7 hours it was so long.   I watched 4 movies during the long drive.  It was fun to cross the border into another country.  When we got to Whistler our condo wasn’t ready.  They said we needed to wait 1 hour.  While we were waiting we went into the village at Whistler and rented our snowboards and boots.  My Mom booked me and my brother snowboarding lessons for the week.  Our teacher was a young woman from Bondi Beach in Australia.  Her name was Penny and she was an awesome snowboarder!  On our first day we learned how to buckle in and re-buckle.  Then we learned how to snowboard using one foot so we could learn how to balance and push forward.  After our water break we went on beginner kid run and both feet were strapped in.  I learned “heel side and toe side.”  Toe side is going backwards, heel side is going forwards.  It was fun but challenging on toe side.  I fell quite a bit…..more than 5 times.  We had lunch and it was delicious!  I had Chicken Noodle soup and homemade Macaroni and Cheese.  After lunch we went up to the Adult /Teacher course. We did “ZigZag” down the run, it was fun but then  a skier hit me and knocked me down.  I was surprised, it really did not hurt! But Penny came down to help me up.  We practiced more and then we had a snowball fight!!  Annie,  Jacob, Matthew, Owen, Nathan and I beat Penny.   At the last second I hit her with a powerful snowball but it was small.  Then we had to go home on the gondola.   My mom picked us up and she bought Nate and I gigantic carmel apples.  Mine was covered with Oreos and my brother’s had Butterfingers.