So a summary of the last month or so...
The picture you're looking at is the Continental Divide--all water flows down one side to the Atlantic and down the other to the Pacific. Pretty cool, huh? We've been skiing a couple of times this year up at Keystone. Season passes are great because then you don't quite feel like you have to ski sunup to sundown to get your money's worth out of it. The ideal day of skiing for me is a couple of bunny runs with Eli, then a few more bunny runs by myself, a couple of hours in the lodge sipping hot chocolate and reading a book, then a few more bunny runs at the end of the day.
Vanessa went skiing with us earlier in the season. I was excited because she said she'd only been skiing four times before--finally someone to stay on the bunnies with me! Oh, but she forgot to mention that each of those 'four times' had been for two weeks at a time! I was actually relieved to learn this fact at the end of the day, because I'd wondered how someone could be that good after only four times skiing!
We also gave our German guests the true Colorado experience by taking them to Cowboys for some country dancing. It was quite humorous for Eli and I, and I think they had a good time as well! They had been trying to teach me to count in German, and I think the numbers stuck after this night of counting out two-step and three-step and cha-cha in German for them!
Remember the big screen TV I mentioned Eli got in November? Well, it was kind of space-age looking in our rather traditionally decorated living room. I REALLY wanted a nice piece of furniture to go around the monstrosity and tone it down a bit. So after Christmas, we ordered a beautiful entertainment center from Unfinished Furniture Expo and then had it stained to match our other furniture. I couldn't be happier with it and really did soften up the TV's appearance.
Other commentary on January:
The picture you're looking at is the Continental Divide--all water flows down one side to the Atlantic and down the other to the Pacific. Pretty cool, huh? We've been skiing a couple of times this year up at Keystone. Season passes are great because then you don't quite feel like you have to ski sunup to sundown to get your money's worth out of it. The ideal day of skiing for me is a couple of bunny runs with Eli, then a few more bunny runs by myself, a couple of hours in the lodge sipping hot chocolate and reading a book, then a few more bunny runs at the end of the day.Vanessa went skiing with us earlier in the season. I was excited because she said she'd only been skiing four times before--finally someone to stay on the bunnies with me! Oh, but she forgot to mention that each of those 'four times' had been for two weeks at a time! I was actually relieved to learn this fact at the end of the day, because I'd wondered how someone could be that good after only four times skiing!
We also gave our German guests the true Colorado experience by taking them to Cowboys for some country dancing. It was quite humorous for Eli and I, and I think they had a good time as well! They had been trying to teach me to count in German, and I think the numbers stuck after this night of counting out two-step and three-step and cha-cha in German for them!
Remember the big screen TV I mentioned Eli got in November? Well, it was kind of space-age looking in our rather traditionally decorated living room. I REALLY wanted a nice piece of furniture to go around the monstrosity and tone it down a bit. So after Christmas, we ordered a beautiful entertainment center from Unfinished Furniture Expo and then had it stained to match our other furniture. I couldn't be happier with it and really did soften up the TV's appearance.Other commentary on January:
- Eli handily won a domestic pentathlon competition here in Colorado Springs. That guaranteed him a spot on the travel team that will compete in 6 World Cup competitions this year. I will join him at the first world cup in Acapulco in March--first time I will have seen him compete internationally!
- I went home for a too-short weekend visit when a last-minute airfare popped up on Delta and Eli was out of town at a competition. It was fun to see everyone after really missing that over Christmas. Vanessa also ventured to the South for the first time, saying that it was actually easier for her to understand people there. She also understood for the first time why I'm so into Coca-Cola!
- We purchased a hot-tub and are currently having our deck expanded for it. Eli's training is really running him down right now, and we figured it would really help his recovery. So...I'll update you all on that once we actually get the thing installed!
- The Christmas decorations finally came down embarrassingly late--January 22! All our previous weekends had been packed with other fun activities!
- The final semester of my graduate degree has begun and I think it'll actually be a really good one--New Venture Management and Strategic Management should be interesting classes to finish up with.
I think that about does it for now...Stay tuned for more to come!