Every year as the holidays begin, I start to compose a list of New Year’s Resolutions. Usually by New Years day I have forgotten every single resolution I have committed to and have already failed with keeping them. I doubt this year will be different but nonetheless I will make a list simply to get into the spirit. Dissimilar to the list I made last year, and all the years before that, I will compose a list of things I would like to do this holiday season as a replacement for resolutions. I am yet to perfect my list but here are a few ideas: Skate at Nathan Philips Square, night ski whilst it is snowing and go tobogganing on a wooden, traditional toboggan.
For the past four years of my life I have spent New Year’s at a ski resort somewhere in Quebec. This year, my family has invited the Turners, family friends of ours that we usually ski with, to visit our ski chalet in Collingwood. Like most years we have spent New Year’s day skiing and as a result we find ourselves exhausted. This is not because we are lazy and skiing is too much physical excursion for us. The Turners stay in Canada for one week and in case you are unaware, England, which is where they live, almost never experiences snowfall. They only have one opportunity a year to ski and that opportunity is one week between December and January. We make sure that every year we make the most of every hour we have skiing together. So back to my initial point of how we find ourselves exhausted, in case you have not yet made the necessary connections – we often start skiing at ridiculous hours such as 8 am and continuing until the first person falls and gives up or the lifts close at 4pm. This year, as the tradition is taking place at my chalet in Collingwood we have taken into account the rule at Blue Mountain that you can night ski until 10pm. So, to end this long and tedious blog post I am telling you that this year I will have the chance to have fun on New Year’s night without being exhausted because we will not need to wake up and ski at ridiculous hours such as 8am.
