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January 22, 2006
The Best Intentions
UPDATE: MARIE AND ANDREA DID INDEED GO SKIING.
THEY SKIED DAY AND NIGHT AND NIGHT AND DAY.
THEY'RE STILL SKIING.
SKI, SKI, SKI.
THAT'S ALL I HEAR OUT OF THOSE GIRLS.
Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the Mary Jane ski resort. (You know, feel free to weigh in, but I'm really beginning to suspect there's some sort of entendre situation going on with that name.) Feeling that it would be a great chance to go to the mountains, Marie, Andrea and I hatched a grand plan - get some runs in in the morning, hit an afternoon appointment with a crazed French ski boot expert at "Le Feet Shop," and round out the experience with some beers and lassitude.
With excitement and anticipation, we happily piled into what's got to be the world's largest pick-up and headed west.
Apparently, about 200,000 people had the same idea.
Something about a football game today?
Beats me.
Click below for pictures of our (rather tame) debauchery...
Though our intentions couldn't have been better (or healthier) from the start...
...we were totally stymied at every turn...
...and after many long hours in the car...
...we were forced to abandon our plans and salvage the day the best way we knew how...
Why, beers and pinball.
Of course.
Though I showed up to the boot appointment with both my pride and sobriety compromised, I did manage to fake it enough to come home with some absolutely stellar Dalbellos. Whoooeeey, these boots is sweet! AND I met a guy who broke his back in a MINING accident and is now on the Canadian para-Olympic cycling team. I also had some really awesome french onion soup at a cool tavern, rather than a string cheese and a V-8 freezing tail mid-slope.
So the day was far from being a total wash.
We have plans to go back up on Friday, once this kid gets here. Oh the mountains are never gonna know what hit 'em...
And for all of you skiers reading this, my season pass gets 20% or more off day tickets...just saying!
Posted by Bree at January 22, 2006 10:41 AM
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Bree! You forgot to add that Marie and I went skiing. I really am disappointed that you failed to mention this. If I show this to Adam, he will never believe we went skiing and then all that hard work of trying to persuade myself to go skiing so I didn't have to lie will go to waste. Help a sista out!
Posted by: Andrea at January 23, 2006 03:10 PM
I see your point, Picabo. But there's only so much I can do. May God have mercy on your lying soul if Adam asks how many runs you actually took.
Posted by: Bree at January 23, 2006 04:58 PM
All I want to know is who is the hottie in the cage? Grrrr...
Posted by: Honorable Sal Honor at February 1, 2006 07:32 PM