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Weekend Update May 10th – 16th: Lets go Vegas! WOOT!
Jun 3rd
Monday: I just want to get to vegas, had a great talk with the boss man on Saturday and I’m gearing up for my big changes.
Tuesday: Talked over my future of my life with my actual boss. He didn’t seem happy but also very supportive. i think they understand. Went out celebrating because it was a big step for me.
Wednesday: Woot woot! Tiff scored us some tickets to the Angels game! Matt Tiff and I all went out to the game after a shot of tequila and some beers (great idea). I also finished up a hefty task for work, so I was pretty happy.
Thursday: Less than amazingly motivated, but it’s my brothers (a little belated) Birthday, and I get to see him tonight to go out to dinner. He’s in town for some dental thing and It just worked out for tonight because I’m going to VEGAS tomorrow!
Friday: Work then to VEGAS!
Vegas was awesome, pictures are worth more than words…
Weekend Update! March 1st – 7th
Apr 12th
Who I Met
All of Jon’s friends, germans??
Accomplishments
Made it out alive from my first bachelor party?
Best Part
Going to Jon’s Bachelor party!! and then to GERMANY!!!
and …. http://trololololololololololo.com/
On a side note, worst part: spending more hours at work (by far) than not at work 
Monday
Hey hey hey its that time of the month again! White Rabbit! White Rabbit!
Today, being the awesome person that I am, I stayed at the office till 1 or 2 in the morning finishing up some code for import export. It works, it works well but its no es perfecto yo.
Tuesday
This week has been so crazy I don’t remember what I did on Tuesday.
Wednesday
Biked in to work, awesome, learned me some german. I really have to take more pictures of things I do, hmmmmm.
Thursday
Pulled an all night code a thon for work, so I can get this project finished on time and get out of here for Jon’s Bachelor Party!! woot woot Tired
Actually Digg was in Rare form tonight, especially with this gem:
http://trololololololololololo.com/
oh man sooo good
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Sunday, a day of rest and awesome.
Mar 14th
Ok so Sunday was a lazy day. Very nice to catch up on some rest and be able to reflect on my trip.
Got up early and had a delicious bkfast then went to the gym to try to work off said breakfast.
Decided to go out on the town today to get a late lunch / early dinner. And definitely some good beer.
Omg on the train I saw some super hightops. First time since the eighties!!!
What ever I do I can not get a German to smile back at me. And if they do.. They ain’t German. I’m not saying they’re not nice, quite the contrary, they just will not smile. Ugh.
Oh I found wiesse beer house again and got a seat today! Tried 3 times yesterday. I have to say the square is almost dead compared to yesterday.
This is the place recommended by gregor 
omfg it is so delicious!! I was going to write about how I thought German beers were good but they did not compare to American micro brews (hey that’s an easy word to type) but this avenitus eisbock is god damned rediculously amazing!! It helps that it has 12% but it’s as good as a wine in it’s own right.
Oh man this beer is going to put me on my arse.
Oops forgot to punch my ticket. Oh well.
Walked all the way Down seldlinger to seldlinger tor and oft wasn’t too bad. Then I took the train back because it was efing cold.
Ugh I’m boring. Drinking beer and playing plants vs zombies (a game) while in one of the most famous German beer houses.
Epiphany and word to the wise. If it seems like what you want to do is outside of your comfort zone of against the cultural norm. Then just pretend you are a foreiner. Like if you want to talk to a girl but it seems intrusive. Just throw on an accent and have at it. I garentee there will be no hard feelings.
So, at the irishpub there were, you guesses it, lots of drunken people. There. It was a good time but not nearly as good as our first night out with the Irish. I don’t know if it was the ghetto or just being pure Irish but those kids were awesome. This bar, meh, ok but not Irish amazing.
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- They can stack their cars! Talk about efficient!
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- One of the best beers I've had
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- I'm not sure but I don't think we wear this
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- If you look closely you can see that the band was singing with a Bottle for a mic.
Saturday, an awesome day :)
Mar 13th
Ok so after last nights debachle xim ready for a much better day. Had an awesome breakfast, great shower. Even used my sweet German to buy my self a train ticket kann ich ein train tiket kauffen?
- vohiem
- marianplatz! Ainst tag!
Oh man I’m soo good 
I’m gonna try and find the German musem and hoffen brauhaus. And what ever other adventures I can run across. Hopefully I can meet some other really cool people like I did last time
Nice! An outdoor bier! I love it! even in the cold!
Omfg I fucking found hofbrauhaus! Accidentally! (I thought it was hoffen brauhaus but I was wrong)
Ok nuts to farve, fuck a liter of cola! Gimme a liter of beer!
Met some interesting people at Hofbrauhaus, a girl from Canada (who went to school in Florida) who was in Austria for professional Volley Ball, and a Guy who lives in Austria who took her out to Munich to watch a Football game (the Europe kind, not the American kind). Oh the guy went to Kansas state or something (in the USA) so he had no accent what so ever. both pretty cool people and shared our table with us.
Also met some girls from somewhere south in Italy. Some island that I had never heard of. They had flown up for a couple of weeks, something to do with school, their english was good but not great and my Italian is non existent.
Spent some more time wondering around the city before I found Paulaner Brauhaus.
Paulaner Beer MMMMMmmmmm....
HAWAII!!
Skis4kashmir.org
Charlie
Steve
Amazing guys.
These guys had the great idea to start a ski school in the most poverty stricken area of Kashmir (well in the mountains close to there). The idea is to start a yearly trip that will allow the students to take on more and more responsibility year by year eventually giving them something they can run by them selves. Charlie and Steve are based out of Durango Colorado and got this idea while in college, and basically went from lust to fruition in 9 months, I don’t know how they did it but they did. The eventual goal, as they explained to me while being quite drunk, is to first try to break down some of the cast system between the kids by introducing some richer kids in a year or two. Then, secondly, way far in the future, they would like to introduce girls into the program, but even they admitted that was a long way off.
I fully support these guys and hope you take a look at their site: http://www.Skis4kashmir.org they have sunk a lot of money and time and soul into this project, they have done a great job. One interesting tidbit they told me was that almost all of the kids there were completely out of shape. Not necisarily in the obese way but they had a lot of accidents with twisted ankles and knees from inflexibility and general being not fit.
Charlie and Steve with Skis4kashmir.org
Now I know why all the brauhauses were so busy. The munich game is starting at 7:30. That’s where steve and Charlie went. That would be awesome to go to a Football match here in the city, I should have gotten tickets.
So there was a shouting match between some guys who liked Frieburg (the opposing team) and some guys who liked Munich (home team). Pretty funny and pretty damn loud. Awesome.
Paulaner, hof, augustiner brauhaus. All awesome, all great beer, all in my belly.
Disco p/1 I did not go but I heard it was good, maybe I’ll check out some clubs later this week.
I ended up my night at Killian’s Irish pub which was combined with an Australian Bar. On the TV they had a Rugby match, and for the life of me, after watching this thing for an hour, I could not understand one damn rule of the game. It is an odd sport. Kind of like cricket, but a lot manlier.
I Ended up my night kind’ve early back at the hotel room pretty exhausted. Thinking about going out later in the night but probably not.
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- Street performer cheating, he had his legs in the box to make it look like he was short
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- Me before an awesome day in munich
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- My train stop
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- Here comes my train
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- Leiderhosen
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- Some kid in the 7 story tall outdoors mall
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- Keeping the Guinne pigs at bay!
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- Hofbrauhaus beer hall!
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- Hofbrauhaus beer hall!
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- HAWAII!!
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- I have never seen a cucoo clock specialist
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- odd frozen statue
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- I Found Wiesse Brauhaus!!!
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- Paulaner Beer MMMMMmmmmm....
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- Charlie and Steve with Skis4kashmir.org
Fuck! Fridaynight ruined!
Mar 12th
Agh fucking work wore me out and I accidently took a nap after words. So now it’s midnight and I rush over to the train hoping to squeeZe a little fun out of the night and I fucking get on the train in the wrong damn direction! Goddamnit!
And now it’s like 15 mins till the next train and I think I have to be back at the station before 2! Ugh so not happy right now.
I will basically get there, have 15 minutes to do what ever and then find a train back. I could not have screwed the pooch worse.
Ugh well tonight sucked. Just spent the entire time walking around town looking for shit to do but everything was all closed up
At least I didn’t miss the last train yet. Got home safe and sound but kinda a lame night tomorrow will be better.
Wednesday Naght in Munchen
Mar 10th
Weds
Work was slow woke up at six after going to bed after midnight
Saw An today finally. What a nice guy.
I was reminded of the techno Viking! How awesome would it be to meet that guy!?
In Munich, as well as other European cities they have electric lights on bikes, which makes a whole lot of sense if you think about it, it requires absolutely no batteries.
The staff at our hotel is awesome.
Oh man I’m so excited I spoke to someone in German and they totally under stood me. And what’s more amazing is that I totally (ok nearly) understood her. And I quote “hoobin doobin grastaldt ofedsta verstandelt goober!” translation: ” go straight down this road and it’s just on your left, you can’t miss it!” omg I’m soo happy!
On the train off on another adventure trying to find food and beer!
First time I rode the train, got someone to take a pic for me
Every one wears head phones at the train stations.
Found a brauhaus! This place is huge! And it’s cold outside.
First beer in munich
Georg, Mari, Pablo, Marco, and Some dude Picture to be uploaded later. These guys were really cool, they invited me over to their table for some drinks because they saw that I was lonely. I really like the European spirit. I’m going to have to try this in America when I get back. They even invited me to their cocktail party on saturday. I probably won’t go, its too formal.
Italian / English / German friends
Lee, horst and a a bunch of other Irish men. Fucking awesome went to the wombat bar. I love the irish because they know how to party. They loved the photos of the bachelor party.
I should not be aloud to party with the Irish again:
Alcohol may have been consumed
They were leaving at 8am for a flight that only cost them 10 fucking euros! I stayed out way too late drinking and missed the last train back home, had to take a cab… all in all an amazing night, just hope I can wake up tomorrow.
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- Alcohol may have been consumed
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- Friends
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- Italian / English / German friends
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- 7 story outdoors shop
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- First time I rode the train, got someone to take a pic for me
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- brewing for 500 years!
I thought it was really cool that this company could brew beer longer than we have had a country.
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- First beer in munich
My first Beer in Munich
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- Beer Hall
Sweet Beer halls!
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- Peters
I thought this was funny for some reason
Sunday through Tuesday
Mar 7th
Not a whole lot to report here, got on a plane on Sunday.
Got a chance to see Dan and Jeff in LAX as they were heading back from NZ and I was going to Germany, what a crazy world. It was good to catch up with them before I headed off. Got on a plane to Germany, direct!, and probably slept most of the way there on Luftansa. Pretty awesome service, free drinks and lots of food. The flight room was spacious and nice.
Got off and had a taxi waiting there for me with a sign, that was pretty awesome because I had never had that before. Got to the hotel, had a nice work out, had some dinner and crashed hard.
The next morning a co worker I had never met before met me at 8:30 and we walked over to the office together, that was very nice of him.
I think there may be some confusion on the project but I guess I’ll know more about that later. I’m still so tired from the jet lag. Looks like there is a big disconnect on expectations here in Germany and what we delivered as Product Development. I’m working really late this night to get this shit done. Wound up working till midnight and woke up at 6 in the morning for a conference call and because of the time difference. but that was the last of my jet lag so I feel pretty good about my self for that one.
Looks like I’ll get to go out tonight (weds) to have some fun.
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- Plane Ticket
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- Passport Stamp
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- BMW sign in the airport like 5 meters tall
Weekend Update: 2/1 – 2/7: Snowboarding in Bend with the Rents!
Feb 23rd
Who I Met
Mom and Dad
Review
Went skiing with the parents in Bend Oregon. Watched the Super Bowl.
Best Part
skiing and hanging out with the parents!
What I Learned
How to do some sweet jumps on my snowboard.
Monday
Busy busy with work, Scare with Burr White that we might be fucked out of our deposit, but I’m sure that won’t happen. Finished our move out but its still up in the air. Worked out with Sean and Matt
Tuesday
Thank god for the bike when there’s traffic. I’m slipping on my diet, need to make sure I don’t give up. Need to get snacks for the office. Also woke up late, Need a way to get to the gym before work.
Wednesday
I have no idea
Thursday
Not a clue
Friday
Finally te day is here to go skiing with the parents! And I’m off to bend Oregon from lax. Met a cool girl going to Germany for a trade show. Armada was the nameof her company. Pretty small ( like 5 people) but they do 10k plus sales of skis. Wow sounds like fun.
The van driver was new. Had no idea what he was doing.
I left on my little plane ( pic) at night and got in to find my parents with some friends they had picked up in town (aquaintences from Hawaii) everybody was a bit drunk
The hotel was quite nice. Very large and we looked out over the water. We had a beer from deschutes and retired early in anticipation for the next day.
Saturday
We got up to the mountain at a reasonable time and met Leon there who was our official tour guide. He was very very nice but he loved to talk and obey the rules. As a result we didn’t get any real skiing in until we split ways and mom and I could take on the blacks and double blacks all by our selves!
Oh man did we have fun! Outback and northwest passage were the best! Got some great jumps and runs in despite my bindings being broken.
We met some avalanche dogs and bought their shirt because it was cool.
Dad turned out to go on a sled ride with some dogs and waited up there on the mountain because our tire went flat!
After we drove back he went out to go fix it at sears because he’s awesome.
Went out to deschutes brewery and got a 12 pack sampler! Awesome!
Sunday
Went out skiing again after we picked my board up from the shop. Got on the town bus to get up to the mountain.
An amazing day of skiing! Oh man. The skys were blue and the snow was perfect! The top of the mountain opened up and we got lost on our way Down but it was amazing! Had some great ten plus foot drops and some perfect snow! Very tiring but very worth it.
I totally felt more comfortable today and was taking larger and larger jumps!
Oh I almost forgot! It is superbowl Sunday!!! Go new Orleans! Woot! Awesome comercials. Cool bar at the hotel and good beers.
Went to bed early for my ass early flight in the morning.
Weekend update! The next! 2/8 – 14th
Feb 12th
Review
Oh man awesome week! went snow shoeing, climbing, the aquarium, Root DOWN!!! and much much more. All this right after I just saw my parents! pretty damn amazing!
Monday
Got in pretty early from my trip but I got back to work a little late because the super shuttle takes for ever! Next time I am definitely taking the Disney land shuttle.
Picked up my dresser from world market. It’s gonna be sweet!
Work went ok. But the awesome part of this day was going to the movie shoot for cannonball at mother fucking san Dimas highschool! omg awesomeo!
Met a bunch of cool people, friends of sean’s and randoms, and had a great time drinking the night away and fucking around in our undies all night in the pool
The premise of the movie / scene was that we were a bunch of highschoolers and we snuck into a country club to go swimming after a party. Met carl and some others. Frog boy was pretty funny.
Went home drunk and tired.
Tuesday
Work work work and ass tired… Ugh. Almost put together my dresser but didn’t.
Started rainig so I left my bike and went home with matt. We had some sweet lakes that we drove through! Omg water every where!
Purvis came over for some web help
Dano decided to purchase tickets. Which was awesome but hinestly how long can I last!? I’m going to fall apart soon!
Wednesday
Ok so mixed emotions today. Just found out that my collegue, mentor and close friend got laid off from our god forsaken stupid ass company! Really msc? The smartest and most brilliant person here and you decide to get rid of him?! What are you? Fucking retarded!!? Ugh fuck this company!
Ok so the end of the night went a bit better. We got to do another shoot at a skater’s sweet ass house. Met some more cool people and had a great time shooting the shit and laughuing and having a great time.
Had a greate dinner of Japanese food (which didn’t sit too well) and then jetted for home.
Thursday
Super tired. Finished my drawers. Saw sterling sulemon on vampire diaries! How cool is that?! Watched some more tv and went to the gym.
Friday
Woke up today in a super funk that I didn’t think I could possibly climb out of. I felt sooo stressed that I couldn’t really breath. It was really weird. The sticks were down, my good friend was axed. I felt pressured for no good reason. My mind was racing and I was pissed! Ugh I hate feeling like that. I took my pills and raced to work a little carelessly. I almost crashed a couple of times on my bike. But I didn’t care.
Got a breakfast burrito with serrano peppers and it was amazing. Really made my day better.
Work, I got none of you done. Instead it felt like I played words with friends forever. We got a lot done with application context however. So that was some awesome meetings.
I hated saying good bye to Boma
Raced off to the airport! I’m finally excited about my trip. I know once I get there it will be awesome. In the air updating my weekend updates. Can’t wait to be in downtown Denver with dano. It’s going to be a great long weekend!
Bumpy ass plane ride!
I got a free drink because the server was hitting on me
Off the plane! went straight to the Mexican resuraunt where they have wicked awesome margs!
I need to learn how to take pictures of nouns during my adventures.
Then we went to Mallonies with their oversized beers, at which point we got a ride home and left the car down town.
Saturday
Got up, found an awesome sale at patagonia, caught a cab over there from Dan’s place with a cabbie that really hated when drunk girls got into his cab and threw up every where.
Met up with a friend Dan found on the side of a 14ner and we went snow shoeing out near where we went last year. This time kona got to come a long and we had a great time tromping through the snow.
Holy shit I almost forgot about the Greatest beer in the world that I have ever tasted! I can’t remember the name right now but it was totally like “holy fuck I will blow your mind from the inside out IPA” (i think that was the name).
Watched a movie called adam, it was pretty good, about a guy with assburger syndrome.
Sunday
Went to REI for Dan’s trip to NZ, talked more about making an adventure site. Pretty good Idea I think. We saw the aquarium and decided it was a great Idea to go! All in preparation for our amazing dinner at ROOT DOWN!!
Root down! ROOT down! ROOT DOWN!! omg soooo fucking good!
Weekend Update: 1/18-1/24
Jan 29th
Who I Met
Dan, Peter, Waugh, Matt, Steve, Carolyn, Jaime Zwers, Jeff, Ashley Stern, Dan Rod, and Adam
a lot of cool people
Accomplishments
Got into the market, bought tickets to vail, Fuck you Stock Market, I won at vail!
Such good friends and boarding.
Best Part
AMAZING time with Dan in Vail! OMG SNOWBOARDING! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANO!!
Monday
- Woke up and took Peter to the airport
- well, actually jon took peter to the airport because it was raining, then he took me to work!
- Rained, and Rained Hard all day!
- The streets were flooded and the Power went off at our office!
- Went home early to read some UseCases from work and had a beer with Francis and Roger (drove me home)
- Watched the rest of Duplicity with matt
- Napped (totally boned my self on that one )
- Got tickets to Vail for Dan’s B-Day!!! (I really hope this was a good idea).
- I have no spine.
Tuesday
- Work was a little boring
- Great discussion on UC with Michael
- Went with becker to go get his stuff out of his hell hole, funny tie down job of the box springs
- Also ridiculous amounts of clothes
- Watched part of a Leo movie, but had to go to bed.
Wednesday
- Good work
- Rain rain rain.
- Been a bit iratable. Had to go workout.
Thursday
- Snoop dogg. Asshole didn’t show up till midnight!
- I was a train wreck. Uh oh troubles. But it was good to clear up.
- Got way too drunk and it made for A&B epic fail for getting ready for vail
Friday
- Omg time to go to VAIL for dan’s BIRFDAY!!!
- Woke up late, too late to go in with matt.
- Did my laundry from the night before (damn you snoop!)
- Got my shit together. The. Sean was awesome enough to drive me to work
- Thanks Sean!!
- Excited!
- Flew to az. Got a beer because god is good
- Off to d town to meet up with dan and off to vail
- Got in to Denver in the afternoon, had a great flight and there was dan to pick me UP Right at the airport area place
- Coffee
- Start Driving directly to Vail, Sweet Jesus we might be late.
- Got up to Vail and met up with everybody
The Cabin was quite spectacular. Dan did a really good job picking out the place, it held a lot of people and the amenities were perfect. We got together and started drinking while we made some delicious shrimp scampi and asperigus. All set to start skiing the next day! Happy B-Day Dano!
Saturday
Amazing morning, we got out a little late today but the snow was perfect. So Rutty and the Girls went with us (everybody else was an early bird) and on this crowded buss we got a little separated and the girls stayed on while we got off and the extreme right hand side of the mountain. So we are standing outside the lifts when all of a sudden Matt says “Oh Mother Effer!” “I forgot my damn skis on the bus!” Holy shit how do you do that? So he left us to go track down the girls and to get them to get his skis while he caught up. It actually worked out just perfect!
The next 2 hours we spent trying to get from one side of the mountain to the other, it was pretty incredible because the whole place is sooooooo freaking huge and beautiful. I had an amazing time on everything, except for those goddamned fucking cat walks! I swear IF i never seen another one of those damn things again I will pee my pants with joy! (by the time I realize that statement I’ll be wearing depends so it’ll be a pretty common occurrence). Once we got back to Blue Sky Basin I would swear it was some of the best boarding ever some really fun runs with some really amazing people. Especially the one out of Blue Sky that allowed us to jump through the trees, what an amazing run
Did some Double blacks and loved it!
We had to take another damn cat walk to get back on the stupid green run but its ok because some sawesome margaritas were on the other end at los amigos! OMG SO GOOD!!! but they got me a bit hammered.
Off to the house to freshen up and then to break in like a ninja to a local resort to use their heated pool and hot tub. Ok so the hot tub was great and all but the real kicker was this little girl that seriously acted like she was a professional business woman! Seriously! Water was warm, sauna was warm and my shorts were shorter than anything I had ever worn in my life, oh my goodness.
Time for quick showers and off for a night on the town. Vendetta’s pizza for Dan’s BDay dinner! Some shots and good beer and better company. And SAWESOME Pizza! We went to two clubs after this but I’m pretty drunk at this point (still from those margaritas) some under ground club and ski bar I think :\ If anyone remembers for me, I would love to know for my own posterity. Thanks! Just leave a comment.
Shared a cab ride home to our house because it was too long to wait for the bus, some people got a pretty cheap cab ride I think.
Sunday
OMG its actually Sunday! I feel like I did so much this weekend! We wake up super early to hit the slopes on time this time because there are 9 MUTHA FUCKIN inches of SNOW!!! Sawesome! Get out to the lifts, the entire mountain is packed because its the first good snow storm all winter and every body wants a piece of it! Purchase tickets (thanks Dano ) and just about to get on the lift to go skiing when Matt’s on the phone. ”Hey guys the cleaning lady is here and she says we’re supposed to be out by now!” haha, pretty damn funny I think, so we have to leave the snow behind (Waugh picked us up) and go clean up to get out of the place.
Finally get back to the slopes a couple hours later and get up on that mountain with Matt. Pretty awesome. Snow is fresh and clean perfect runs and a sawesome time. Met up for lunch, nom nom nom. Headed down to try to beat the traffic. (hahahaha no fucking way in hell). We found the most amazing down hill run through a gully where dan was jumping off of cliffs and being an all around billy badass. I was pretty jealous.
Spent about 4 hours in traffic to get back, have some soup and go to bed before my 6 AM flight. More to come about this stupid fucking plane in next weeks edition!
Thanks for the awesome Birth day dano
