Tire Rack recently became a sponsor of the USSA and we were offered a chance at a VIP trip for two to Park City, Utah for 3 nights. Included was lodging, lift tickets, meals, ski rentals, happy hour, and VIP access to the events. After Matt said he didn't care too much about going, I called Sven. He was in. I put my name in and won! Sven bought our plane tickets with his mileage and we had the most amazing free vacation!
As we checked in and received our VIP package (Burton ski jacket, backpack, hat, shirt, pins, knitting kits, wool socks, snacks, etc) we were invited to tour the course in the morning. Not wanting to be a bad representative of Tire Rack, we accepted. Then we took off for our first 1/2 day of skiing.
We reported at 9am for the dreaded course tour. OMG! The tour was amazing. We skied to the starting gates then skied down the course (at a very controlled speed). We checked the the audio/video booth, viewed the jumps and turns close up, and left with a true appreciation for the skiers and snowboarders who race down it at 45 mph.
The rest of our vacation went a little like this: ski, VIP lunch, watch ski event, ski, happy hour, sleep, ski, VIP lunch, watch snowboard event, ski, happy hour, sleep, home.
I LOVED my welcome home sign so much, I left it up for weeks!
