Well it was my last official ski trip on the bus this winter. It was another bus trip to Sunday River on Saturday. I was worried it would be very icy as the weather report showed rain anywhere in ME Friday and Friday night, but the elevation on the hill was enough that it snowed. That was the good news, the bad news was we still had to drive up through ice (the driver saw 5 accidents, I was awake for 3). It got worse when we got there (by 9am!) because it was very windy so they couldn’t open all the lifts… In fact they only had 2 lifts open when we got there. The slowly opened more lifts, but it was painful to sit in line all day with 6″ of snow on trails we couldn’t get to…
In the end we went in to lunch a bit early, and came out to them just opening a high speed quad. We ended up skiing that until 3:38 (that was the last time we got on it, I’m supposed to be on the bus around 4pm) and had a great time on it. The we is me and Jeff, another escort who appears in the shots from the first trip to Stowe. We ended up having a great time, and being exhausted by the end of the day, but it was painful all morning.
It’s a bit sad because I love to ski, and my last day was pretty bad, but it’s for the best. I’m done skiing for the winter, at least on the bus, because Nikki is due in ~4 weeks now and we both feel me going ~4 hours north on a bus that can’t come home early wouldn’t be the smartest thing to do… I may go for a weekend day in the car someplace close, but that would cost me money (gas and tickets) to go someplace boring and crowded, so we’ll see how bad I’m jonesing in a week or two…
Nikki and I had a fun Sunday (pre super bowl that is). We went out to a nice breakfast at a cheap diner near our house. We then went to Dave’s for the weeks groceries. We then came home and did a bunch of little things for the nursery (changed mobiles [we have 4!], hung pictures, hung a curtain rod, and a bunch of other little things) . We made Taco Salad and enjoyed some of the super bowl. I tried not to yell too much at the offensive coordinator for insisting on running every first down… I did “let him have it” when they then insisted on passing on 1st and goal and 2nd and goal late in the 4th where they really could have run some time off the clock… buy hey, what do I know? We still enjoyed the game and the commercials, but it’s hard watching the giants beat both my teams. They played very well in both games, I’ll give them that, I just feel neither of my teams played up to their potential. It’s hard to watch them lose when you know they could have done better.
