WARNING: Disturbing Images

So I thought I would make a post about this last week that includes some graphic images before Sophie gives birth to our baby girl which will obviously include some very cute images. Graphic before cute, right? Let me say first that last week was awesome! We spent the week at Snowbird like we do each year with Sophie's family and we had a blast. A zip line, alpine slide, tram to the top of the mountain, pools and hottubs, mountain bike trails (my favorite part :) ), great food, bunjee trampolines, rock climbing walls, staying up late playing games, and just an all around great time. We even held the inaugural Andrew Weber Memorial Triathlon (I'll explain the name later).

So you all know what an alpine slide is right? Well here is a video of Snowbird's actual slide.

So two of the six days that we were there we had 'all-day passes' which enabled you to do pretty much anything you wanted to on the mountain. Thursday was the second day that we had these fun passes and I decided to go out and ride the slide first thing in the morning. A couple days before I had ridden it with a couple of my nephews but this day was different. I was riding it by myself and I would be able to ride it as fast as I wanted. I got a push start and got going. About half way through I realized that I was going pretty dang fast. Towards the bottom I rounded a left hand turn and the awesome momentum that I had generated managed to push me right off my sled. You can see in the video that there are two slides. I was in the left. I slid along the side of the slide and bounced into the middle. Skidding and tumbling through the grass and dirt I managed to bounce right into the opposite slide. After I came to a stop about 30 feet further down the track I jumped up and for a moment thought that I had made it through the ordeal unharmed. My ankle hurt a little but I could move it and I felt alright. Very quickly however I realized that I felt like passing out and my ankle started to throb. I layed down in the dirt next to the slide until my brother-in-law and father-in-law came to help me hobble over to a bench. My favorite comment of the day came from one of the Snowbird employees that had seen the crash from the ski lift right above me. "I don't mean to make light of the situation," he said, "but that was a 10!

So some medics came to check me out and we pretty much decided that I had only sprained my ankle. They gave me a leg brace and I thought I would be alright. I ended up taking twelve 200 milligram Ibuprofin that afternoon/night and I got about 3 hours of sleep. My ankle swelled up and became pretty painful (12 pills?). It even started to bruise. I'll post some pictures now of my ankle so you can see the swelling and bruises. If you don't like seeing this kind of stuff then I would recommend checking your facebook account instead.

Fun huh! I thought the bruising was pretty cool. We held the family triathlon the next day and in honor of the crash my Father-in-law named the race the 'Andrew Weber Memorial'. Well actually he named it the 'Andy' Weber memorial and that's not funny so I changed it.

Next post...Baby!