where the heck have i been?
Man, this blog has been neglected lately!
Things have been crazy lately in the having-copious-amounts-of-fun sense of the word. My parents came up for Christmas and we spent the week at a condo in Keystone. Josh and I skied while the 'rents hung out with the dogs, walked around town, went to Breckenridge, etc. Each night we had lavish meals full of wine and great conversations. Seeing as my parents don't ski, they grew a little bored after 4 or 5 days and decided to head back early - which meant Josh, Maddie and I had the digs to ourselves. It was the best of both worlds - lots of family time plus a few days of peace and quiet.
And we skied. We skied lots. I am still pretty bad but getting better, and more importantly, I am loving it. After our first day in Keystone I was seriously about to throw in the towel. Sure I'm not in the best shape I've ever been in, but there were people out there who were 50 pounds overweight and standing on the side of the run smoking for god sakes and I couldn't ski?! By the end of the second day (and our first time night skiing - which was totally kickass) I was doing better and by the end of the third day I was absolutely HOOKED. Now I finally "get" it. And its super fun.
We spend most of our time at A-Basin, which I much prefer to the other places we have been - way quieter, way more lay back, way less crowded, way better snow. What's not to like? Ok, so when it is cold up there it is really cold ... as in -33 windchill on Saturday cold ... but I can deal with that.
The day after my parents left two of our friends from Kansas came in town. We had a great time catching up and hanging out. We went up to A-Basin one day to ski (see previous mention of -33 windchill) and we were going to go back yesterday but the weather wasn't looking too promising. It turns out that they shut down I-70 yesterday evening and those lucky enough to make it home at all spent six hours driving back from the mountains, so I think we made the right choice. Instead of freezing our tails off we spent the day hanging out in Boulder, eating gelato, and trying to stay warm.
Now it's New Year's Eve and our friends have gone home and we are laying low for the night. We are exhausted. Tonight we will grill up some buffalo steaks and drink wine. Tomorrow if the weather holds we are headed back to the Basin. Have I mentioned that I love skiing?
Hope you all (if you are still around!) have a wonderful and prosperous New Year.
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