Soon to be September

I can't believe it's almost September!! Summer has flown by. I feel like it has been pretty uneventful. Work, work, and more work. I guess that happens when you live in the real world.

I have a lot planned for the next few months. On September 12 I will be going to Wisconsin to visit family for the first time in almost two years. It will be good to go back for a few days. No doubt I'll come home with the amazing accent. Good news! Packers vs. Bears at Lambeau, September 13, first regular season game of the year. What a great time for a cheesehead to be in Wisconsin!!

In October, my best friend Amy is getting married. Her wedding is on October 17 in Boise, so I will be going to Boise for the bachelorette party on October 2 as well. I can't wait!! They've been dating for......4+ years. WOW! It's about time!

The snow will be falling in no time! I can't wait to put my skis on and hit the slopes! I'm taking advantage of my job this year. I'm planning on making a few ski trips: Jackson Hole, Big Sky, Bridger, Sun Valley and maybe even a few places in Colorado, Steamboat, Vail, Aspen. Who's coming with me??

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Trip to New York

It has almost been 2 months since I last wrote a blog. A lot has happened since then.

First, I went to New York to visit my brother Matt. We had a ton of fun! Here's what we did:

Thursday

I landed around 4:30pm and headed straight to Matt's office. He works for BET, so I was able to go onto the set of 106 & Park. Then we went to dinner where we met up with Matt's roommate, Kacy and checked out Times Square, then just headed back to Matt's appartment in Brooklyn for the night.

Friday

Friday was just the two of us and we packed in a lot!

• Ground Zero
• Staten Island Ferry
• Financial District
• Brooklyn Bridge
• Washington Square Park
• McSorley's, the oldest bar in NYC
• Sushi
• Hit the bars
  

Saturday

Saturday was an intersting day. Half of the morning was spent looking for a medical boot because my stress fracture from college softball decided to come back. My foot was cramping up and it was very painful to walk. We went over to the Intrepid (it was Fleet Week!!) and checked out all the ships that had come in a few days earlier. Then we headed to Central Park, 5th Avenue, then went to dinner and hit the bars. We went to this bar called Woody McHale's, where Woody McHale himself came and talked to us for an hour or more. We drank $10 bucket o' Yuenglings and were out until about 4:30am. Matt's best friend, Whitney, came down from Boston.

Sunday

Sunday, Whitney was kind enough to drive us up to the Bronx so we could have lunch in Little Italy. What a cool area! Little Italy in the Bronx is not well known to tourists, so it was very quiet. The food was amazing, and I'm pretty sure we saw the mafia at a little Italian cafe having their daily meeting on the patio. Everyone spoke Italian, which made it feel like a completely different country.

Then we headed to Harlem and walked around a bit. We went to the Columbia campus then drove up Park Avenue. We drove all the way to the West Village to find where Ms. Carrie Bradshaw lives. By the end of the day, I was exhausted. We went back home to take a nap, then we headed back into Manhattan for dinner and bar hopping. By this time, I wasn't feeling very well, which is upsetting because we went to a really cool bar called the Belgium Beer Garden. I was feeling pretty sick, so we made it an early night and headed home.

Monday

My last day in New York, we went to Grand Central Station and my favorite place so far, D.U.M.B.O. (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass). I have seen so many tv shows and movies that have been filmed here. It's a really cool place to go and you can see the entire skyline.

We headed to the airport and I flew back to Utah. I always hate coming home to Utah after being in such a diverse area. And New York is probably the most diverse city in the country. What an incredible city!

Center of Excellence

We are finally all moved into the Center of Excellence, our new home! It's a pretty spectacular place to work. We have a full training facility on the first floor, including a rehabilitation area complete with hot tubs, sauna room, and steam room. There is also a full basketball court, and the best part of the entire first floor is the ramps & tramps area. It's basically a full skate park, as well as a place for our aerialists to train on the trampolines and foam pools.

The administration resides on the second and third floors. There is a huge balcony on the third floor that overlooks our amazing ski resorts. Right next door to me on the second floor is a media center where we can produce our educational materials using a sound booth and editing technology.

The U.S. Ski Team knows how to spend $22 million!

Fridays

Today is our last day in the training center. We will be moving into the Center of Excellence next week. It's a really exciting time for us right now, but it's bitter sweet. Things are going to change when we're all in the same building. Only time will tell.

Wishing and Hoping and Thinking and Praying

We are moving out of the training center into our new $22 million facility down the road. It's such a pain to pack up everything and move all this furniture! But once we arrive in the Center of Excellence, we will be at ease. Here are the before and after shots:

We're having a huge sale next Friday and Saturday, April 24-25, so if you need anything, stop by!

In other news, our local resorts here in Park City decided to close on April 12. After a few storms last week, Park City Mountain Resort decided to stay open an extra week. I didn't get to ski at all this week, and probably won't get out this weekend. I think I'm done for the season. I am ready for spring and warm, sunny days! No more snowy spring days.

Lately, I have been looking into grad school. I don't know why, but I've had the urge to go back to school. Since law school didn't work out, I was thinking of getting a MBA. I would obviously need to do all this while I'm working full-time. I think having this background will eventually help me onto my original career path of becoming a sports agent. I just need to get back into the swing of things. I'm thinking I probably won't go for another year, fall 2010. I know this next year is going to be extremely busy at work, with the 2010 Olympic Games just around the corner. I'll just need to wait awhile.

What else is new? Not much. I've been really tired lately. I hope it's not the beginning of depression. I don't feel depressed,, so maybe I'm actually tired. Who knows?

Steinbach out!

Blossom!

Spring is already here! I can't believe winter is already over. The ski resorts are going to close this weekend. I enjoyed this winter very much, and the skiing was great! But now, it's time to move on and enjoy the spring and summer months.

Utah's seasons are perfect. Just when you begin to get tired of the cold and snow, it's already spring and the temperatures are rising, the flowers are blooming, and shorts are being worn. This spring, I have the opportunity to go to New York City, where I will be visiting my brother in Brooklyn. I'm so excited! The last time I was there was after graduation two years ago. It's time I go back and fall in love with the city that never sleeps. I have been watching Sex and the City and it makes me more and more excited to visit this amazing place!

Spring is like a new beginning. Unlike the New Year, Spring has a different sense to starting over. Because the flowers, grass, and leaves all come out again, it's like we as people get to start over as well. It's an exciting part of the year. It's like going from cold misery, to warm happiness.

Another new and exciting event that will be taking place this spring is USSA's move into our new $22 million facility. We move this month and have our official opening May 1. This is such an amazing opportunity for all who are involved with USSA. The move is long overdue, and everyone is ready to go. Again, it's a new start. Another chance to get organized, make sure everything is going according to plan, and taking my job to the next level.

The summer officially begins in New York City, May 22. Here I come!