GFzinks09's Blog

So this weekend we went skiing at mount snow with a group of people from college. There was no internet, barely any phone service, and somewhat satellite TV...it was LOVELY. Well that is except for when people were lost trying to find this house in the abyss of the woods, then it got tricky.

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So we all graduated back in May and it has been incredibly difficult to get everyone together for dinner nevermind a weekend of skiing, boozing, and having fun. We found the house on homeaway.com for a reasonable price plus it came with EVERYTHING you could ever need, towels, blankets, pillows, TP, papertowels, trash bags, cleaning stuff, anything a house would need. It was wonderful, you pay a "cleaning fee" and when you show up everything is clean and ready to go.

The house was the quintessential ski house. 2 decks, grill, and 6 bedrooms a loft and games, air hockey and a perfect beer pong table, which kept the boys busy for most of the weekend.

I was certainly nervous about going on the trip. I knew I wouldn't be able to cook anything all weekend and I was terrified of getting sick since there were 2 bathrooms and zero privacy anywhere. So we stopped at Trader Joe's on the way up north and picked up 2 salads plus I made pasta with sauce and put it in containers. Brought my own snacks and simply had yogurt with trail mix in the morning. It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. Only trouble was people kept getting into my snacks so we had to hide stuff way up top where it was "out of sight out of mind".

One of my guy friends only wanted chips and salsa from my plate so I would make a plate of food, he'd come over with his beer hands and try to reach in. So I'd spin and try to re-explain that I would gladly make him a plate but to please get away from my yum yums. And then he'd reach in with a huge grin and say they taste better from your plate. So I'd give him the whole contaminated dish and make a new one. Until he came up again, it would have been the end of his life were it not hilarious the sad look he made when told NO.

We skied on Sat and it was Scott's second time. For a very non-athletic person he is picking up skiing quite well. My parents came up for the weekend too (in a hotel) as it was my father's 55th birthday on Thursday. My mom was nice enough to take Scott and the other learners for a bit so we could get in some real skiing. Speaking of my father and mother being up for the weekend....he definitely showed up at the house at 10:30pm for an hour of beer pong....I was like WHAT but the boys loved it so what can you do. Dad was certainly in his element. Eventually we started flip cup (I drank my beverage from a separate cup and flipped an empty) and after 2 rounds he went home.

Sunday everyone had a huge breakfast which was kind of sad I couldn't take part. The guy cooking was upset because he had wanted to make something for me too but I tried to tell him no worries at all. Then we drove home for the superbowl. See the next entry for that one as this one is getting a bit lengthy!