We had a great day on the slopes of Amirsoy and an entertaining evening in the chalet to celebrate Christmas as a family. The resort just opened some of the ski runs on Sunday so we were fortunate to get some of the first skiing of the winter season. There is still not enough snow at the top for all of the courses to be open and the ones that are, have rocky and icy patches. I went down a couple of times, but decided not to tempt fate on my 57-year old body. I spent most of the time working on my technique on the lower parts of the mountain where they have snow machines. Watching Instagram Reels and YouTube videos, I am improving my skiing. I have been an intermediate skier for a long time, and my goal this year is to become better. My big learning for these two days of skiing are to lean into the turns, which is counterintuitive. I always leaned towards the mountain, but it is better balance to dip one’s shoulder away from the mountain and into the turn. This gives better balance to the outside ski. It is amazing how much better I looked by the end of the day. We will ski this morning again before heading back to Tashkent.
The chalets are awesome. We had a fire going, there is a market in the village where we bought a bottle of wine, and we played music on Spotify through the television. We had a lot of laughs and it was fun to spend time with the kids and the Wakefields!
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