Matt and Janie (2)

Lizzie and I headed over to the main run, it was fun to ride right under the chair, not many people did so the groomers were fast, fresh courduroy!!
There were some good rollers on this run and if you straight lined it, you would get some good air. Lizzie was ahead of me for a while, she hit the first of three rollers and launched! By the time I hit the third roller my speed was so fast I got a few adrenaline rushes out of it.
Lizzie got to the bottom before I did. "That was Awesome eh?" she said "It was fast!"
"I know!" I said "I had a few moments that freaked me out a little.
"It was a little Scurry!" she laughed.
That was kind of an inside joke, because we both watched the documentry on Tara Dakides our favorite female pro snowboarder, another pro described her tricks as "too scurry!" instead of "scary" so that is how we started saying "scary" now.
"You wanna do it one more time before we check out some other runs?" Lizzie asked
"For sure I do!"
Lizzie and I unstrapped our back feet and skated back on to the lift. "Good Morning Lucy!" we said in unison to the lifty. "Morning Erika, Morning Lizzie, have a good run!" Lizzie was our favorite Lifty and we saw her almost every morning.

"So you were saying about Matt and Janie?" Lizzie said as she lowered the safety bar.


So this summer Matt brough Janie out from the city to meet the family, and that is when Janie met Rob. Rob works at the board shop with my husband, he looks a bit like a tough guy, he lost his hair young so he shaves his head, he has a full tatoo sleeve, he is stocky and tough. Rob has great eyes, all the girls notice them, it is by far his best feature. Rob looks tougher than he is because he is a soft hearted sweetheart when you get to know him, he is very shy and he lacks self confidence. He is smart, much smarter than he lets on, or appears. Rob is quiet, he doesn't say much but when he does talk about something he is usually right on, he doesn't bull shit, he is a straight shooter, he is who he is. I find him refreshingly honest.

We went to the local golf course and it was a beautiful hot July summer day. Rob had moved in with us about a month after Matt left. He had worked in the rental shop the winter previous and now was at the shop working for my husband full time, but with the lay off from the ski hill his income had dropped and it was more afordable for him to stay with us. I liked having Rob there, of course Matt was great because he blended so well with the family, but Rob was great company as well.

Janie had never golfed before, Matt was just so stoked to be home for a weekend and he was so excited to golf, it was like he had totally forgot that he brought Janie out to meet us all.

So there we were the five of us, my husband, myself, Matt, Janie and Rob. Janie was so intimidated, not having ever golfed she was so out of her element. Matt was so into the game he forgot to teach Janie, he just assumed she would figure it all out. I think that Rob noticed how lost Janie was so he took it upon himself to show her how to swing, he was so patient with her. He pointed out everything my husband was doing and told her to make sure never to do anything he was doing! He taught her the etiquette, and helped her choose each club for each shot. By the end of the game Janie was completley relaxed and I noticed Rob was much more relaxed than normal after a game of golf with my husband. Rob always got frustrated with my husband, my husband hasn't quite got the etiquette part of golf down, he lacks regard for the rules and drives Rob crazy! Rob puts up with it cause my husband is the one who hooks him up with free golf, cause he also works at the course.

Later that evening we all had dinner at my place, I did the cooking and Rob and Janie stayed in the Kitchen with me to chat and keep me company. Matt and Steve stayed in the living room and started another 18 holes this time it was virtual golf as they were playing Tiger Woods for Wii. Matt was so set on smoking BC bud that day, as he had been away from it for so long, with his busy life in the city, he was looking forward to the beers and the greenery as he refferred to it. Janie was uncomfortable I could tell, she had never even seen marijuana, let alone seeing someone smoke it. My husband Steve and Matt went out on the back deck to smoke it before starting their new game of golf on the Wii. Rob liked to smoke too, but he stayed in the Kitchen with me and Janie so that she wouldn't feel uncomfortable.

My son was at my moms for a few weeks as it was summer holidays so it was just me and my husband at the time, we had the freedom of heading out the bar that night because neither one of us had to be at home with our son.
Janie, Rob and I cleaned up after supper while Rob and Steve continued to relax with their beers and a game of Tiger in the living room, then Janie and I started to get ready to go out.
I went into my closet to pick out an outfit, I wasn't sure what to wear. I noticed my tiny little denim DC mini skirt that my husband bought me. I thought to myself why in God's name did he buy this for me, first of all, way to short. Second, I am not in my early twenties and I am a mother of three, I know I am doing ok considering this but that skirt was not meant for me.
I called Janie down to my room, I asked her if she liked the skirt, she loved it.
So I gave it to her and said hey you want to wear it tonight. Janie was so excited to wear it she went up to the spare room to get ready.
About ten minutes later she came back to my room all sad, "What's wrong?" I asked. "Oh, nothing really, just Matt won't let me wear the skirt, but it's okay."
"He won't let you!" I emphasized the words "let you"
"Ya, no, he says the boys in this town are not to be trusted and they will all be all over me anyway, let alone if I wear this, so here you go, have it back."
"Hell no!" I said
" You keep it, and make sure you wear it! I guess if you don't want to tonight that's okay, but you were smokin in it and I want you to have it!"
Janie smiled, she was happy to keep it, but I knew she wouldn't wear it that night, oh well.
We all headed out to The Griz, the only bar in town. Both Janie and I ended up wearing jeans and a t-shirt. She wore a comfy element tee, and I wore my roxy satin tank. We both put on a pair of sandals.
The boys went in the same thing they wore to golf.
The night was fun, we had quite a few drinks, Matt was playing pool most of the night, it was Karaoke night, so Matt and I did a duet! My husband Steve found some friends to chat with, and Janie and Rob were taking pictures and doing shots in the back bar.
Matt was right about one thing, the boys of this small town were pretty excited to see the new girl in town.
They were all over her, buying her drinks flirting, laughing and running each other down to impress her.