So we bought cross-country skis earlier this year.  They are the classic-type ski but are more along the lines of a back country type ski.  Somewhere between a classic-classic nordic ski and a telemark ski.  They do have metal edges so that helps when sking downhill on a groomed trail at night after having a big meal and getting a big looped in a hut type thing.

Being that the skis are a bit more burly than your normal cross-country ski, we decided today to try a few tele-turns over on the dike.  I swear, if a ever go telemarking for real on a real mountain, I will be wearing two helmets and carrying another one as a spare.  I have never taken so many headers as today and that was on the frickin' dike!  It was like every time I tried to turn, my knee on the uphill side would dig into the snow and head-first I would go.  So maybe the ski we got aren't really meant for something like that, or could be that I just suck.  More than likely a bit of both.  Good news is the snow was soft so no broken noggins.

Sioux take on Mankato tonight in hockey and we're going to the game.  Caught the end of last nights game on tv and if tonights game is anything like last night's game ended, it's going to be sweet.  Sioux won last night 6-3 but the end of the game was quite entertaining.  It all started with about 3 mintues to go when a Mankato guy charged one of our guys and totally laid him out, it was a hard hit...definitely high-light reel material, but cheating non the less.  So then a couple of our guys went after that guy and a nice little scrum insued.  There's no fighting allowed in college hockey so this was about as good as it gets.  A couple guys from each team got 10 minute penalties and got tossed, a few more got put in the box.  So after the game was over, a few guys got into it again and one of the Mankato guys SPEARED one of the Sioux guys!  It didn't get shown on the tv broadcast but the broadcasters were talking about it as it happened.  So hopefully each team can field enough players tonight for a game.

Off to pre-funk for the game...