Well, not so much “our” window, but the window of my uncle’s ski cabin, where we spent the weekend ensconced with my cousin’s family (and Linus) while it snowed and snowed and snowed.

We skied a few days at Dodge Ridge, which is a very cool little mountain. It’s not the most extreme or the biggest, but it has a really nice family vibe- great if you have kiddos in your crew, and man… the snow was GREAT. It was so fun hanging out with my cousin, his wife and their two kids. We did lots of family stuff including cooking pizza in and staying up late playing board games. Also, by far the two of the best days of skiing I’ve had this season. I’m really feeling like I’m getting my “legs” back skiing. The past two years I basically regressed in my skills and finally feel like things are on the upswing again. I’m able to go out hard and feel like I’m actually SKIING, not just huffing around the mountain in a state of exhaustion. Not exactly “bell to bell” yet, but at least an improvement.

Here’s E and I at the base. Not sure where my skis are- outside the frame I guess, but don’t I look like a (the horrors!) snowboarder here?

and are contemplating never coming back

Hey, hey… guess where we are heading tomorrow……

FINALLY

Sadly, not a ton of ski trips in the pipeline for this season, as our budgets are still recovering from my year of unemployment. On the bright side, my humble paychecks and lotsa overtime are helping us eek out a FEW weekends, subsidized by generous friends with crash space and discounted tickets. Our goal this season is to get up north at least once a month. Seeing as I am still a “probie” for a few more weeks at the new gig, I’m slated to work about two weekends a month. Don’t mind in the least- I am just thrilled to be able to get away and ski when we can! Apparently, my ambulance company is even putting together a ski weekend for us. Super cool, right? Take that, fancy corporate ski weekend from E’s old startup… not just tech firms can have ski trips!

HURRAH for skiing! Planning on two days at Kirkwood this weekend with Don and co, and one day with Amy at Heavenly.

Always so awesome when all these trailers to come out.

And hey- it’s premiere time!  Whoo

I have a midterm next week, so I might miss the MSP showing on Monday, however we will definitely be hitting up the TGR premiere at the Palace of Fine Arts next month.

Here’s the MSP flick, In Deep, which looks great:

And TGR’s Re:Session:

Here’s some of our crew partying down at the NYC TGR premiere. The exciting news is Mike is moving to SF so perhaps we can pay homage to this pic, this time sans-crutches.

NYC TGR flick