Finally Recovered From My Weekend

I mentioned in the video blog on Saturday about the weekend I had planned and boy was it one for the ages.  There were so many different things that went down of note but I will only touch on a few on them to give you an idea of how it was.  It started out by me picking my sands (line brothers) up from the air port and immediatly heading over to the Coors brewry to take the plant tour and get some free drinks:)

It took us about 35 minutes to get there and we skipped the entire tour to go straight to the free samples haha.  They gave us three 10 oz beers of our chose which set us on the right track for the weekend.  After that we came back to my house for them to drop off their luggage and get settle in.  Once settle, we headed downtown to grab some food and find something to get into.

Seafood was on everybody’s mind so we picked a very nice seafood restaurant downtown and dined there for the evening.  It was a rather expensive restaurant but we figured we are on vacation so price was not really an issue and we went forward on having a good time.  I went ahead and ordered the grilled salmon with rice pilaf, had a glass of wine with the food, and a glass of Blandon’s whiskey after the meal.  I am not normally a wine drinker but if it compliments the food them I am always game.  Once the food was finished we headed to Tilted Kilt across the street for a few more drinks before heading home.

Saturday came and we were up bright and early to try and beat the traffic headed to the ski resort.  Although we were up early, we still ended up being stuck in traffic and it took almost two hours to get to the resort.  After we arrived it was much warmer than I anticipated and was a beautiful day for skiing.  We signed up for the beginner ski lessons since it would be much cheaper this way and 2 out of the 3 people in my party had never been skiing before (myself included).

Yet after hearing that the ski lesson would be 2.5 hours my friends decided to go off on their own after the first 5 minutes of the lesson while I stayed for its entirety.  I tore my ACL once already and was not trying to get injured doing something foolish.  The lesson turned out to be very useful and I learned alot.  I did not fall one time during the lesson and only ended up falling twice the entire day.

But one of the two times I fell, I fell HARD!  The slope became VERY steep out of nowhere and I picked up a large amount of speed in a short amount of time.  I soon lost control and realize that the only way to stop would be to take a dive, but at the speed I was going that was even difficult.  I hit the ground, my ski’s broke off, poles flew in the opposite direction, and I slid at least 30 feet on my back down the mountain.  I was so thankful that I was still alive after that and went back to an easier trail lol.

After fending off the blizzard that blew in as we were leaving we headed back home to rest up for the game on Sunday.  We took the train there to avoid paying to park and got to the game right in time for tipoff.  Although we had very good seats that were 6 rows from the floor, we only sat in them about 30% of the time.  The majority of the time we were either at the bar or out talking to women.  Oddly enough, my friend Keith found somebody from Purdue at the game that he had class with.  Small world.  But the games was great and I actually got a number from one of the Celtics cheerleaders haha.  Great success!

All in all the weekend was great, somewhat painful but great!  I included a few of the many pictures we took below.

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