Snowshoeing

I tried something new with Kris yesterday! He wanted to show me Stewart Falls, a 200-foot waterfall near the Sundance Resort. It was just under 2 miles each way, which was the perfect distance since snowshoeing is harder than hiking and I wasn't completely steady on my feet. One thing I love about hiking with Kris is that he always offers me a hand when he thinks I might have trouble, but it never feels patronizing, just helpful. I fall down a lot.

It was only $8 to rent the snowshoes for the day! This is something I never thought I'd try. I'm so glad I gave it a chance!

The scenery along the way was beautiful.

And then this!

We finished just as it was getting dark. I had a slight situation... Somehow, the back of my legs were covered with ice. We tried to brush it off, but it was frozen to my pants. 

This wasn't a big deal while we were hiking (although it was only 16 degrees), but when we got in the car, the ice melted and I was sitting there wearing cold, wet pants. We had to stop at Target so I could grab some yoga pants, and I was mortified to actually go out to eat while dressed like that.

Kris took me to Olive Garden for dinner. Because he is wonderful and I'm a basic bitch and I love that place. 

I have such a crush on this guy. It's actually kind of embarrassing; aren't girls supposed to play hard to get? Apparently I suck at that game. But how could I not be head over heels for him? When his family asks him how we met, he says "in jail." I just thought this was funny, but then yesterday we were listening to Frank Turner (Kris knows I love Frank Turner, so he puts that on in the car pretty often) and all of a sudden I heard a lyric I've never noticed before: "On the first night we met you said 'Well darling, let's make a deal: If anybody ever asks us, let's tell them that we met in jail.'" My heart just melted a little; it was so perfectly sweet and punk rock all at once. 

Anyway, enough mooning over Kris. I could go on and on, but the title of this post is "Snowshoeing." And so, in conclusion, snowshoeing was super fun and I want to do it again. With Kris.