Yesterday we got up early and went skiing at Whistler. At first we were both thinking that it could be a bit of a weekend killer. Go to bed early Friday night so we can set the alarm even earlier for Saturday morning and then exert ourselves to no end all day long. Yuck.  I tried to put a tentative feeler out to our friend that we had committed to going with that maybe the weather would be bad or maybe we should consider going at the end of the month. But neither of us likes to back out of commitments once we’ve made them so we dutifully went to bed early, got up at 5:30 the next morning, met our friend and off we went.  Sleepily the merry trio made their way to Whistler.  We were also meeting up with some other folks that we weren’t keen on but we figured what the hell. We’ll do some runs and then separate. Anyways, to make a long story short, we never separated, we all skied together all day long and we had the best time ever. You can’t ever have a bad time skiing. It’s impossible. In some ways life doesn’t get sweeter than skiing on a beautiful sunny day. We ended it by going to the pub for a big plate of nachos and few beers.  We talked about renting a place for the night…maybe staying again and skiing the next day. We all knew we couldn’t because we had obligations at  home….mainly two big hungry dogs but we let ourselves dream a little bit after a perfect day.Because this is just the way life works as soon as we got home our friend Mark got a call from him girlfriend in tears because she had spent the day with her mom who has alzheimers and it had been a really hard day….then we got home and there was a message from hubby’s sister…the man she had just run off with chases her with knives when he’s drunk and tried to punch her even though she’s pregnant. We knew life would catch up with us again. It always does but it makes me realize how sweet a day like we had was. I never want to miss those great moments and I hope that my natural tendency to stay in my routine doesn’t stop me from really enjoying life and grabbing it when the opportunity arises.