Day 17: Last day in the boat, ski, 'tub, sunpies, tacos

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Woke - Steve retired for today after photo shoot – tequila – rain – sleet – snow – time to park truck – some idiot drove into a parking garage with a topper on, hit the sprinkler- alarms going off- water shooting everywhere- we got $5 car wash for free- 20 year old stinky water - swissy scarf day - gondola wind closed – how many people can Jeff the tell the garage flooding story to (Laura's got a counter) – powder day - fanny fupa - more San Diegans – rolex run - high noon- buddy’s run – wearing two watches - fear the fanny - T bar – swiss rosti – saw 5th cowboy hat in Steamboat and I’m super disappointed - hot tub – Frodo Jeff - stinky steamer – sauna – Izzy/London/Chad/Sarah goodbye time – quick floss – Sun Pies – checking out the backyard and wishing for summer so I can raft by for a brew – delicious burgaaah – met Scuba Steve – Frodo’s son Zac – base camp – cooking invisible tacos with girls – glow in the dark glue – wait the super bowl is still on? – Patagonia shopping – yummy tacos – beers – wine

Daily Quotes of the Day:

What if: “What if you get a DUI on skis? Is it called a Ski-U-I?”

Kids breaking into bathroom: “Whoooa, you have really big nipples and boobs.”

"Her love language is from the 1840s"

"He's got one of those wet clam handshakes." 

Best Food of the Trip Tour So Far:

T bar. Best thing on the menu. Swiss Rosti

Best Apres Music  Joint:

T bar – 90s hip hop. EPMD, Gang Starr… need I say more.

Fun Fact of the Day:

Chairlift dude George from LA heard my comment that I’ve NOT been able to get one chairlift beer to NOT over foam… so, LA George said to open the beer again a hard surface like the bottom of the chair… haven’t tried it, but will do in Jackson Hole manana.

One hit wonder song of the day:

Ugly Kid Joe: I love everything about you

Ski Day Update:

Weather:  30° - 34°  | 1 -3” inches of new snow

Overall: The first 5 minutes were windy and sleety and snowy, but it was bliss with some pow and not much folks on the slopes as today as Super Bowl Sunday. Super duper fun day.

4:45am Elk break into the house – oh, wait it’s just the kids running around house like a rabid pack of dogs - back to sleep – woke - kids eating waffles - rocking mullet - 80s hoodies – Steve - the search for my snow pants – adults skiing – Coors Chairlift Lights – birds eating out of hands - God damn the Gilligan’s are amazing skiers - Wanda Paula – Après at T Bar - skiing with the kiddos-  exquisite lasagna "4 me" heart shaped Valentines lasagna – deer "seahorn" lasagna - the chutes that never happened - hot tub – overall hair pants – sauna – steamer – dinner with the Gaglianos (steak night, yum!)- Ole! – flossing - Wanda Paula (again) -Wendy Western- Play-Doh -  -  

Daily Quotes:

Kids talking: ”Mooses ski the bumps.”

Kids talking: “Donald Trump skis in jeans.”

Heard in the kitchen: “I promise I won’t fart by the coffee machine tomorrow.”

Kids chat to Steve: “Never call a boy a lady.”

Bergen: "I love you."

Bergen: "Steve's crazy"

On chairlift with kids: “Bar up ladies!”

Overheard on chairlift: “Stories are best waited to be marinated on…”

Overheard sales pitch in chairlift: “Our elephant lasagna’s are ivory free. We kill the elephants, but leave the tusks.”

Kids trying to kill us down the chutes: “Lets just get this over with.”

Overhead at the dinner table: “A dental dam looks like a fruit roll up.”

Talking to kids about their pet: “I don’t think if you licked Cherry (the bearded dragon) it would taste like cheesecake.”

Chad Chats: “Wendy Western on the monkey bars.”

Chad Chats: “Wet Wendy”

Chad Chats: “Wendy showed up knocking at my door with her pants around her ankles asking to take a poop.”

Lying in bed reading blog: “I can’t stop snorting (laughing).”

Lying in bed doing blog: “Don’t make me laugh. I can’t read it cause it’s shaking.”

Amazing Food We Ate Today:

T Bar: the Swiss Rosti – flipping yummers

Sarah & Chads – BBQ Steak and Asian salad – I ate 8ths

Animals We Saw:

Dude… a bird ate out of my hand…  not sure type of bird, but I can verify it did have two eyes, a hole and two wings.

Ski Day Update:

Weather:  4° - 32°  | 0” inches of new snow

Overall: First time skiing with Jason & Kristen… and, God damn are we in the Olympics… fun day… kids skied with us later in the day… meet other San Diegians. Super fun day. 

 Woke – behind on blog catch up time - binocular watching – defrosting frozen avocado on fireplace – sniffing vanilla yogurt – finally made the best sando - rocking 80s hoodies - blue bird day - clonked Buddy in the head – local, we are now - fireball drinking Easter egg hunting guy on lift – British chairlifts - boot n’ trees n’ teddy bears in trees - hot tubbing with chad and the kids - overall hair pants – torpedo boobs - amazing hilarious chad stories - sauna - hide n’ seek – not many places for a full grown adult to hide – stuck behind vending machine – hot dogs – fireworks – dinner with the Gilligans (most amazing food 2 nights in a row) – laughs - music (Biggie or TuPac?) - games - nite.

Daily Quotes:

Early Morning nose cleanser: “Would you like some coffee?”  “Yes please! But, I can get it.” “Noooo… don’t come over here I just tooted.”

Coffee Chat: “Is that your toothbrush? Or, do you use that to clean the toilets?

“I don’t like chips but when I do I like them hard... so they cut my mouth.”

"Do you know a rice krispie treat is like the sugar version of an orange?"

Out of no where: "Just for her purposes"

Heard in Hot Tub: “Have you heard about the new law passed in California? You’re only allowed 3 honks a month. If you need more you need to download the new California State Honk App to purchase more honks. And, if you don’t use all your honks you can ‘gift’ them to friends and family.”

Talking to Mom: “You’re pictures look fuzzy and rippley” “No mom, that’s called cord or groomers… it’s suppose to be that way.”

Kids Talking: “Where’s Laura and Steve?”

Adults Conversing: “Wait is your dad younger or older than your grandfather?”

Best Named Run of the Day:

Giggle gulch… need we say more.

Games We Played:

Mexican Train Dominos (again)… we got schooled.

Animals We Saw:

Ski patrol dogs and some birds.  

Ski Day Update:

Weather:  4° - 34°   | 0” inches of new snow

Overall: Third best day of the trip. Soft topped snow with some bits of ice, but it was a blue bird day and for the most part no one on the slopes. 

Woke - snooze – found binoculars for moose and elk - stretched with voodoo Dr. Jo - shark tickled the knee – gondola – you’re not Chad – ski time – ski boots, beads and bras in trees- red suited onesies wearing cowboy hat belt buckled skiing rustler – hot tubbed at the Grand with Chad – Frodo Jeff – sauna – steamer - largest bowl of pasta – water in bowl of pasta – eat your hand sandwiches – one handed cartwheels – kid melt down we outta here – stale poop smelling wine establishment – amazing steak, potato galette and salad dinner - first exquisite lasagna sales pitch meeting - the everything room – Steve - crank called Stouffers at 11pm - whoooa a real person really answered – best most tolerant customer service person ever - origami poop towel – the altitooter – dancing on chairs – played Mexican dominos - sang birthday video – chair sleeping

Daily Quotes:

Breakfast Question: “How do you like your eggs, plasticy?”

After realizing a 10 year old is going to take you down a triple black diamond: “We are coming home in a body bag.”

Getting on Chair Lift: “Ouch!!” “What?” “The chair lift bite me?”

On Chair Lift Watching the Skier:  “and, oh no! He’s heading for that pole!“  “No, no, no…he’s just skiing controllably un-controllably.”

At the Lodge eating, caught bringing in own beers: “Hi pardon me, but did you buy those here?” No” “Yea, I’m going to have to confiscated those, unless you want to pour them into a cup” ”YES!!”

Overheard at the Hot Tub: “I hate bubbles. I think I’m the only person in the World that hates bubbles.”

Overheard in Sauna: “What are those small wooden ramps for? There not comfy pillows?” “Maybe they’re for people skiing in here.”

Overheard in Sauna: “Man, Imagine doing that jump? I would have broken my neck. I should just wear a halo brace when skiing. No… wait… maybe I’ll just wear it all the time and be proactive so I never break my neck. Maybe we can all wear them. Go to Costco and pick up an 18- pack of them… then we could all do a bar crawl and pretend we are from the Association of Halo’d People… the AHP… and all pretend we are from different chapters around the states and talk with accents and stuff.”

Heard while Playing Games: “Snip your fart… you know… you gotta let it out of your ski pants.”

Overheard: “Whoooa, did you do that AND do that?”

Heard while Dancing: “Is she Noodle 2?”

We Have Questions so we call Stouffers at 11pm: “Hello?” “Oh, hello… we just purchased your 4 meat lasagna and we only know of two meats to be ground beef and pork… so, what are the other two meats?” “Let me look that up for you sir.” “Yes, thank you… hey they kinda tasted like shrimp and sea horse... can you verify that?”

 Game Night: “How many points do you have? Ummm… in the high 60s” “Hey, it’s not a weather report.” 

Game Night: “Hey, he took my coupons…  those are dice.”

Sitting on Wooden Bench Minding Own Business: “I just felt it on the wood, your toot just vibrated the bench.”

Games We Played:

Mexican Dominos: Kristen won her first practice 1-AAA- junior minor league game ever (unofficially) - Laura trying to put bones down everywhere and anywhere - newcomer wins first officially game – down goes the King

Animals We Saw:

A MOOSE, A FLIPPING MOOSE – he was chilling by the moguls looking for food. We got some decent pics and video then he moseyed into the woods and we skied right by him – super duper rad cool. We also saw another lone chipmunk (as apparently squirrels do not reside in Colorado) and a magpie (that was giving us the stink eye and I think wanted to attack us).

Fun Fact of the Day:

Steamboat Springs Morningside Chair Lift: While on chair lift break up some crackers and put you glove out and the birds will eat them out of your hand. (video to coming soon)

Ski Day Update:

Weather:  9° - 32°   | 0” inches of new snow

Overall: Epic day bra – way better than the first one as we knew the mountain better and didn’t get stuck ending our runs on Rainbow and Quickdraw.

Woke - no wild game roaming in the backyard - bomb breakfast - packed car - adios Winter Park - Steamboat Springs here we come – llamas - Ricky Bobby U-haul race car driver passing a car uphill on a curved icy road – Jerry of the Day cheetos backpack - 5 year old teaching me how to floss - Sunpies Bistro - T. Rovick bar with IOU post-it notes all over the bar - gotta love a bar where the locals bring their own koozies – Rabbit Ears hotel – Backdoor Grill -Dennis Pooper, errr Popper - the secret to the tap - nights

Daily Quotes:

Driving to Winter Park: “Whoa… we just ran over road kill.”

Band En Vogue playing on radio:  “Ummmmm bop... unskinny bop bop bop bop… Hey, don’t the Hanson’s have an unskinny bop song?”  “No, that’s mmmmp bop.”

Heard in Car: “Did you know there’s a ‘taco’ in Tacoma?”

Driving along and there was a horse standing outside the front door of a house: “Haaaay, I forgot my keys… I’m still out here.”

Car Comment: “I have to keep pressing this pedal. It’s not easy.” (As Jeff passed a car then dropped to 35mph in a 65 zone)

Noticed While Driving: “Whoa look they have the speed in kilometers.” “Oh, that’s because there is a huge Kilometer Kommunity here.”

Noticed While Driving: “I know about NY, Connecticut and Chicago pizza, but what is Colorado style pizza?”

Learning Moment in Life Taught by a 5 Year Old: “Ok, so pretend you’re a little tooth and your hands are floss.”

Sitting at bar making comments on stuff hanging from the ceiling: “Hey look at that horn? What corn?”

Bartender twirling scissors around her finger: “What happened to your trip being ‘cut’ short?”

Overheard in Car: “Dad, you’re buying a white Volkswagen Jetta? That’s a what high school girl drives?” 

Animals We Saw:

We saw another lone chipmunk, some mama llamas and finally for anyone if anyone is reading this blog we saw a bearded dragon! Remember that couple from the chairlift at Copper Mountain? Well, we saved ourselves a couple steaks – yummers!!  

Questions of the Day:

Are there more trees or insects in the World?

Ski Day Update:

Weather:  4° -    | 0” inches of new snow

Overall: Rippingly good fun. 

Day 12: Skied Winter Park  

Woke - no wild game out of back window – BBQ still buried under snow – bluebird day – 3 runs and someone’s toasty toes ain’t so toasty, but they pair well with her frozen fingers – time for heat packs – quick to the lodge! – 45 minutes later on a triple green Village Way – stuffing ghetto, manual lava packs into her boots and gloves – queue up the heatwave song -I got a heat wave…burning in my foot - beer and a bump – frozen camelbak - Larkspur - ESPN is calling you Laura – broom ball – 4th graders - almost got our teeth knocked out - MVPs with a combined 5 points - Queenstown Seat Agents 008 & 009 pics - tried to sell restaurant some exquisite lasagna – home n’ jammers – spinach ravioli - movie.   

Daily Quotes:

““Mmmm… the smell of yellow school bus.”

Feet Cold: “Man those are def not Mud Aspen Tucker’s NASA boots… those are manual ghetto lava boots.”

Heard on Chair Lift: “Winter Park should be called Cat Park with all these cat walks.”

Heard on the Lift: “Aren’t you cold? Heck No!! I’m toastier than a Kenny Rogers rotisserie chicken!”

Heard in the lift line speaking to guy with Black Crowes on Skis: “Dude, are those skis made by the band?”

Heard on the Lift: “Are your feet warmer yet? Yes, there are sweating… wait, like your boots are overflowing in sweat? No!! They are just hot… Oh, well if they are sweating then they won’t be so swollen and then they will be skinner than hipster skinny jean feet.”

Heard on the Slopes: “Is that run called roadhouse or roundhouse? I dunno... just look for a run with a  house in it and an ‘R’... then we can buy some vowels from Alex... I mean Pat and Vanna White.”

Heard on the slopes:  "I sometimes just don't know about you." "Dont steal my line."

New Clothing Creation: (super exited) “Whooooooa!! Are those fanny knee sacks? Or fanny knees? Or knee sacks?"

Selfie Stick Breaks: “I’ll just duct tape my phone to it for the rest of the trip. Or, we can use it as a pointer for all the power point presentations we are not going to make." <<--- Meg, thanks so much for your 37 page power point presentation on a Social Cycle bar crawl.">>

Getting Ready to go play Broom Ball: “(Walking into the bathroom) "Hey, I don’t think we can wear boots there, we have to wear sneakers"… "Where? In the bathroom ”...."Omg, at broom ball."

"Do you hate restrictions, but love italian food? Well, we've got the product for you." - Stay tuned at www.exquisitelasagnas.com 

"Coming soon to a mouth near you."

Best Run of the Day:

1. Larkspur (hands down): steep and 6-inches of pow. We jolted down it 4 times and couldn’t get enough.

2. Mary Jane: apparently this is the run Winter Park is known for. There are two sections: the Upper, which is a black diamond/moguls and the lower section which is a super wide blue groomer.

Best Named Run of the Day:

Jabberwocky: it just made us laugh.

Best Two Signs of the Day:

On Ski Bus: Next to the First Aid Kit.  Another kit: "Body Fluid Cleanup Kit"

On Ski Bus: And, I quote…

“Your car knows you

Keep hair gel in your glove box

To get rid of hathead.”

Song of the Day:

Pseudo Echo – Funkytown (1987)… this kicked off right as we jumped in the car headed to the slopes… gigglefest. 

Best Signage on the slopes of the Day:

On the Slopes: Historic Trail Mary Jane was named after a local lady of pleasure who acquired the land due as payment from railway workers and miners for ‘favor’s… and, on a PG sidenote it also used to be use as a sheep trail.

Movie We Watched:

None. We were busy buying www.exquisitelasagnas.com and launching our next business.  Coming soon to a mouth near you!

Animals We Saw:

We are still not sure if it was a squirrel or chipmunk? Can someone please contact us? Our running theory is that it is a squirrel since chipmunks run in a three pack… Wait? was he singing? Was that Alvin?”

Definition of the Day:

Juicy: “Hey man that pow was juicy.”

(pow = powder for all you home gamers.)

Fun Fact of the Day:

When you have cold feet and need to stuff lava packs (aka heat factory packs) into your boots stuff them above your foot, not below. FACT.  

Ski Day Update:

Weather:  4° - 22° (flipping cold)  /  0” inches of new snow

Overall: 2nd favorite day (1 goes to Aspen Snowmass; 3- but a close second- goes to Copper day 2)

Special Shout out Thanks To:

Wanda Paula

Woke - it’s snowing! - no moose - no moose tracks either – pack up – our main driving road (I-70) had a car fire in the tunnel - chatted with Porsche neighbor guy dude and he informed me of  ‘alternative’ route – took ‘alternative’ route – drove down an old country road – saw no cars for 15 white knuckling miles – snowing like crazy,- wind gust blowing – whiteout at times – Chernobyl and Apple/Google maps are going to get murdered for the alternative route – climbing steep pass – descending – houses – more vehicles – car off the road – normal highway – Winter Park we are here – skiing – 5 inches of powder – safety first... Laura forgetting to take her helmet off when driving home- first place we have stayed with less than 107 steps - rental is cold – it takes over an hour for the room to be heated by 8 degrees -  stove cooks pasta twice as long – movie time.

Daily Quotes:

Woke up and the first words out of Laura’s mouth: “What is that huffing and stomping sound? Are you doing jumping jacks?" " No, that’s the coffee machine.”

“We should be sponsored by A + D cream and Q-Tips.”

Random Car Observations: “This is where they keep cranes.”

Random Car Thoughts: “Do you think horses get bored....or cold?”...."Not the ones with jackets on."

Heard on the Chair Lift after seeing some lady pizza-ing at MACH 10 speed under no control: “Do I look like that? If so, I’m going to take a lesson.”

Checking out the Airbnb:  Have you ever seen a half a shower curtain? The top half only?  Cause we have one here." 

Overheard while watching a movie: “The sloth has a grown up bowl cut.”

Animal of the Day:

We only saw horses, cows and more dogs on our death detour from hell. When are we going to see some wild game?

Worst Quote of the Trip (thus far):

"Game crossing (sign)!  Do you think scrabble and yahtzee are crossing the road?" 

Song of the Day:

Mambo #5 - and, it only won because we thought our ‘upstairs neighbors’ from the previous night were dancing to it... along with the Macarena and funky cold medina.   

Movie of the Night: FYRE Festival Documentary on Netflix

Ski Day Update:

Weather Report: 24° at the base and 16° at the summit (4° degrees tonight!!)

Snow Report: 3 – 5 inches of powder and it was amazing. 

Woke - coffee - stared out window looking for a moose - sandwich redemption day (I gots this!!) – half a tomato sliced long ways (again) – ski chapel (Sunday School!) – beer in the bubble - Laura’s new bike business - Jacques, Andy’s Encore and Flyer runs the best of the day - lunch at the chalet – American Flyer ski lift sucks - Apres in Breckenridge with friends- I-70 highway 2mph detour - sausage n’ peppers n’ salad for din-din ((and no sausages fell down the garbage disposal a al Mammoth)) - Hotdog Movie - they’re doing the Macarena again (8:22pm) – blog - Macarena Update 9:12pm (fed up… we both go to knock on door) Haaaaay Maca-holy moly there are at least 3 kids bouncing off the walls ....where are you parents? Parents show up.  Are you really doing the Macarena? (holding our giggles in). – and, back to the Hotdog movie.

Daily Quotes:

“Are they still doing the Macarena?" (12:23am)

“If you can only dance the Macarena does your ethnicity become Macaranian?”

“What, are getting more wood? No, I just need to shrink my feel down.”

“Sleep diagonal… you know when your shoulders are cold, but your feet are hot?”

Parking Lot Directors (when people don’t listen and park wherever they want) “They can’t do anything but shoulder shrug.”

“Dramamine- American flyer lift

We skied a run with one of each other’s poles: “Why are my poles uneven?”

“Is the link to exquisite lasagnas up yet?”

New Business Idea: “the Sandwich Hammer.” Because when you’re skiing you’re squishing your sando anyways.

“Hmm… I should have brought my collapsible sandwich holder, then my sando wouldn’t get to flattened.”

Laura with 37 electrical cords sticking out of her ski jacket “Whooa, you need an electrician.”

Heard on the Chair Lift: “How many sets of siblings have you hooked up with? Uh, none… You? Maybe like 7....”

Heard on the Chair Lift: “Have you ever hooked up with triplets?

Heard on the Chair Lift: “Oatmeal cookies. Do they still make those?....I think Little Debbie does.”

Took a Wrong Turn: Announcer “Whooa, she’s gone rouge. Who’s that in the stripe ski jacket going down the kids slalom course?”

Chernobyl Trying to Fix Vertrees’ Ski Goggle: (our of no where) “Man, Chris Vertrees has a really big head.”

Pulling into Breckenridge: “Let’s start looking for parking (as we were 1.9km from our destination).”

Conversation at the Maggie: “What? You partied with Micheal J. Fox? No, no… Michael J. Tuk Tuk.”

Conversation Heard at Dinner: “I ‘bearly’ hit a bear driving.”

“Later suckers....Quick jump out and change the plates! Throw a meatball...err a snowball at their car.”

"I'm starting to get really good at opening packages."

"Sarah- another name that should be banned (there are too many of them)."

"Where are you going? Do you have swollen feet again?"

"What are you doing now? Oh no, not again. Are your feet swollen or are you getting more wood"

Movie of the Night:

Hot Dog – the Movie (not the food)

Awesome movie – we give it 5 out of 5 Hot Dog Buns. Oh, and the soundtrack is out of this World – when is someone going to do a club remix.

Song of the Day:

That peanut butter and jelly song

Animal of the Day:

Two yellow labs playing fetch on the slopes.

Ski Day Update:

Weather Report: 34° - 26° degrees | No new overnight snow

Much warmer than yesterday - blue bird day in the AM with clouds in the afternoon.

Overall, our 2nd favorite ski day of the trip.