TAC prep

With The Arctic Challenge looming, and my plane leaving tomorrow morning for Oslo, i'm starting to get all excited and jittery to witness one of the greatest events in snowboarding. To wet your appetite and see what I've got in store, check out this article from Snowboard-Mag and TAC website.

http://www.snowboard-mag.com/?q=node/34391

http://www.t-a-c.no/

see you in oslo

Talk time

It recently came to my attention that I forgot to put my phone number on here, i thought i had sent out an e-mail but apparently not.

so for anyone who felt like blessing me with a call, all they would have to do is drop into albertsons or equivalent and get an international calling card. Then (probably cheaper to use a landline) dial 011 33 6 87 51 63 50.

Keep in mind the 8 hour time difference, as in add 8 hours if you're in idaho, and don't call me at 5 am. as in you americans should call me when you get out of bed.

Starsky & Hutch

since finding starsky & hutch pinball online, i have been spending a decent amount of time enjoying this stellar game and dreaming of the day when i haven a pinball machine in my kitchen.

in the meantime you can try and beat my highscore of 62,397,500. Good Luck.

Writing Essays

so anytime one is writing essays, he also has a habit of finding really weird internet sites that usually involve games. Today i ran across this awesome pinball site!!! Lurking not too far in their ranked pinball games i found a stellar one Starsky & Hutch! it's so fun, it's super realistic and totally free, high scores aren't recorded but mine is 23,344,500. Go give it a play and see if you can beat me. I know Jamie Nicole Morton can.

Greatest New Years day ever

This man must have been so stoked on his fresh start to the new year.

Sorry Petey, but there goes your tuition money for next year, taken out of your account to cover an out-of-court-settlement.

Not for the kids, well kind of, it was fine for the kids on the chair

New Years

New Years was a pretty stellar affair, two packed apartments full of Simon's cousins and lots of food. I'll try to do it just and keep it PG. All in all there was Simon, Sarah, Jo, Adam her boyfriend who had just arrived, Myself, Simon's parents John and Dorothy, Simon's cousins Rory with g/f Ruth, Pat with g/f Jules, Ruth with b/f Rob, and Jimmy with his mate Alex, plus their parents which i never even met. WHOOO!!! packed is all i can say about the dinner.

Les Gets put on another fireworks display for New Years which was pretty stellar.



Lee and I hangin out waitin for New year's dinner
Everyone kicing it in the Irish pub for New Years
Me and Simon's cuz Jimmy holdin it down like champs
Jo and Lee and I enjoying the free bar toys

Home by 3 am, zelda til 4 am, awake ad skiing fresh pow by 9, absolutely exhausted after a full day of shred.

New Years Day: Fresh snow everywhere, happy new year
Thank LEE for these photos of me.

My little jaunt into Italy

Anna spent some of christmas in Val d'Isere, so Simon, Sarah and I hatched a plan to go visit and ski for a day, long 8 hour drive story short, the pass through italy to Val d'Isere is closed in the winter and google maps hates me, so we just ended up having a pizza in Italy, which was stellar by the way, and then driving back.The tunnel through Mont Blanc is about 10Km long and takes about 15 minutes to drive through, start in France, pop out in Italy.Scuzi scuzi, gratzi, bellisimo
Simon not stoked after driving 3 1/2 hours and having to pay for the mont blanc tunnel (30€) again.Mont Blanc, although technically from this side it's Monte Blanco

All in all not the greatest day ever, but we tried.

Christmas

Spent a wonderful Christmas in Les Gets with Simon's family. the house was always packed never less than 6 people and 2 dogs in 3 tiny apartments. Went snowboarding everyday but 5, the 2 before we got there, the 2 after i dislocated my shoulder and the last sunday heading back to Chambery. not a ton of photos, because like i said, i was snowboarding.

Bummer view waiting us as we arrived, with an outside tree
The trusty Holden keepin it real
The setup, not a bad hall
The "fireplace"
Many nights were spent wasted on Zelda and other Wii games
Jasper and Cleo kickin it, they're pretty good singers, just like Hailey's Charlie back in the states.
Dog kisses
Christmas king, the American was the only one to keep his hat on all through christmas dinnerThe man in blackBig discussion about whether he's stealing the stars or releasing them
Watching the fireworks display from the bottom of the piste
Vin chaud after the displayThe whole family + Lyns and her rentals.
Bummer outdoor icerink
We got snowed on halfway through the vacation, only about 3 inches at the chalet, but depending on where you went, up to a foot and a half of freshies. Me playing twinsies with Jimmy's mate Alex, sometime during the last 2 weeksWe got to watch the cat groom the pistes every night, not bad

Sledding (sledging) down to the pub is probably the best way to travel, until you get yelled off by cat drivers.

Sarah learns the shred

Sarah has snowboarding a few times last season, so this season, she trooped back out again with Simon almost everyday and started linking turns, mad props. You should have seen her bruises on her knees, snowboarding is not for the frail.
Sunsets are lame on the ChavannesWatchful eyeWorking on turnsLooking across the valley to Mont CheryA portrait of the artist as a young man