Monday, 23 February 2009
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Sloppy Seconds
facebook is down for some reason.
I'm the worst kind of cheater, skulking around xanga when my new shiny friend is unavailable.
There is so much I could say about that right now....
Back! from vacation! I dearly love having a day off at home before heading back to work. Also good to have one more day to stay off the, uh, knee. I sort of twisted it. I hope it was entertaining for the folks on the ski lift. I wish I had a video, to tell you the truth, because I think I did a total pinwheel wipe-out. The last thing I remember as I plummeted down the whoop-de-doos, way too fast, was "Oh, shit." I crawled up the hill to one ski and got it on, then skiied on it down to the other ski, which was a lot harder than I thought. I found my ski poles and scooted out of the narrow dippy run back to the big, wide run and felt okay. I made two more runs but my knee was hinky and I couldn't trust it anymore. It was a good time to stop, so I turned in my rental stuff and picked up Norway (newly-turned 3!) early from ski school. He'd had enough, too, and we ambled to a bench with a good view of incoming skiiers and watched a while.
I am telling you right now. The deals are out there. Negotiate everything. Then haggle them down again. GO.
We were at Jackson Hole, truly one of the premier ski resorts in the country. Apparently, they have plenty of mixed-ability couples or families, because while a full-price lift ticket for the day was almost 90 bucks, a beginner ticket (only access to the green runs) was only twelve dollars. TWELVE BUCKS TO SKI THAT GORGEOUS JH POWDER!! And JH greens can get into blue-level skiing, take my word (and my twisted knee) for it. It was plenty fun and I swooshed that mountain all damn day.
And since my lift ticket was only $12, I felt pretty happy kicking off my skis at the Four Seasons for a light lunch. (Buffalo mozzeralla, fresh basil, tomatoes and olive oil: $14. Cakebread Chardonnay, $20/glass).
I can't wait to see if there's any snow left at Crescent next weekend....
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