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Snowboarding

KK and Day had the time of their lives, because after skiing on Day 1, they decided to sign up for a snowboarding class on Day 2.  The class barely scraped the surface of what they need to know, but after coming down the slopes several times and falling spectacularly, they started having fun. So much fun that even after KK injured his ribs (sneezing became painful and he couldn’t quite carry the luggage), he longed for a couple more days of snowboarding, ribs be damned, so he can become as proficient as some of the guys whizzing past him. (He hopes to go snowboarding again with Day, so that’s great news because it means he’ll be willing to fly again) Skiing and snowboarding are also two of the rare things where I see Day trying hard, again and again, to become better. (doesn’t apply to schoolwork or piano or any of the usual yardsticks of success) * In which KK takes very long to appear, long after Day and Jo, and when he does, falls * In which the trio ski in the dying light of the af