I had never gone skiing before in my life when my in-laws invited me.
My wife was telling me about all the ski trips they used to take as a family when she was growing up.
I told them all that I had no experience, but they were eager to teach me regardless. Lucky for me they were patient and let me start out on the easy slope so I wouldn’t hurt myself. I was terrified of getting some serious injury that would cause me to lose my ability to work my job once I got back home. But I didn’t fall too much and when I did I was okay. We had so much fun despite my lack of experience that I started to realize how much I appreciated my in-laws as much as I appreciated my wife. They’re like a second family to me and they treat me as if I was their biological son. We all pitched in to rent a ski lodge for the week and it had an amazing heating system inside. It had three different sources of heat if you could actually believe it. There was a traditional fireplace with lots of wood to burn, radiant heated flooring throughout, and a central furnace hooked up to a ventilation system in the ceiling. It could get so hot in there that we could turn the ski lodge into a sauna if we really wanted to. I was so thrilled about the experience on the trip that I told my wife and my in-laws that we should rent the same ski lodge the next time we come to the slopes to ski. I’m not that much of a skier but I just enjoy spending all of this time with my wife and her parents.