The snowboarding trip was superfantasticuberawesome. There was plenty o' snowboarding madness and druken debauchery. Oh yes, and delicious food! We freaking ate like kings every night. At first, none of the girls wanted to cook, but after two nights of cleaning after the messiest boys on Earth, we finally gave it a go one night. Cooking is fun, but I think I'll just hire a maid and a chef when I grow up. (It was recommended to me that I should just find a a house-husband who will stay at home and cook and clean, to which I just laughed, and stuck with my former proposition of a maid and a chef.) I must say though, those guys know how to cook! Steak, pasta, hamburgers, breakfast... it was the best I'd eaten in months (with the exception of when my wifie came to see me in boston ;). I thought it was funny how the guys were ready and willing to cook, whereas the girls wanted know part of it (not to mention that some of them didn't even know how to cook... ehehe). It got me thinking that maybe asian mothers in America, in order to overcompensate on the hardships they've had to endure from overbearing husbands and male egos, go easy on their daughters while they work their sons to the bone. Interesting, ne?
Snowboarding was a success! When we orignally planned the trip, my only intention was to hang out with the snow, drink gallons of liquor, and sleep by the fire. Well, then I found out I had to go to Boston, so the snow interest wasn't as grand anymore, and then Lynda Le couldn't go on the trip anymore so she loaned me her snowboard, THUS, I snowboarded. It was much more fun this go around, especially since I didn't have to tumble down the mountain like last time. I can brake now! Sadly, everytime I tried to carve, I just ate it in the face. Alas, I shall keep on working on it, though I don't know when the next time I'll be snowboarding is. I've got about a million bruises all over me, including an incredibly dark one on the middle of my ass. You may not be able to hurt your tailbone, but you can totally hurt where the tail bone hits the flesh when you land on your bum. Each day after snowboarding, everybody was sore. Every inch of muscle that I had ached, including my neck, fingers, toes, and to my surpise, even my abs!!
While we snowboarding one day, I happened to run into a cute guy--literally. I was boarding down the mountain and I saw that I saw going to hit this guy, so I tried to stop buy I fell on my ass. He was able to stop successfully. He smiled at me and asked if I was okay. I smiled back and said yes. Then he started going down the mountain, but the whole way he kept glancing back at me. When he was a few feet away, he stopped, then got on his knees and looked up at me again. I think he was waiting for me to come down too, because then he tried to be non-chalant and cool by playing with the snow a little while he was chilling there. I wanted to go over, but everyone in my party was yelling to go over to the left, whereas he was at the right. So alas, I let him go, but hey, it made my day. ;)
Considering the amounts of alcohol that we consumed, you'd think that we were all alcoholics (and not just me ^_-). Let's see here:
4 (bottles) Grey Goose Vodkas
2 Parrot Bay Coconut Rum
1 Amaretto
1 Jagermeister
1 Baileys
1 Champagne
1 Bacardi 151
2 Jose Cuervo Strawberry Margarita Mix
3 six-pack cases Smirnoff
1 12-case NuCastle
1 12-case Corona
and for mixing, 1 Sweet 'n' Sour and 10 Red Bulls
With the exception of the beer and Bacardi, we finished EVERYTHING. We finished the first bottle of vodka in one day, and had to go back 3 different times to get the 3 other bottles. The Rums, Margarita Mixes and Coronas were also subsequent purchases... I was actually quite suprised that we finished off the hard stuff. It was mostly due to the last evening in which we played some drinking games. Chris's birthday was on the 22nd, so he pretty much consumed the most liquor. He was also the one who killed whatever small amounts remained in the last vodka, jager, baileys, sweet 'n' sour, and red bulls. The only liquor we had to take home with us was half of the beers. (Yuck on beer, BTW). On the first night that we got super wasted--and to clarify how wasted, i twice participated in this stop-light crap that Andrew came up with, which consisted of a shot of vodka, a shot of 151, and another shot of vodka all back to back, one right after another--I decided that I wanted to build a snowman by the window so that when everyone woke up, they would have a nice suprise. Chris went with me so that I wasn't alone, and he also brought a flashlight! The snowman was a failure because the snow was too powdery to pack, so then I attempted to just pile a large mountain together. That was a bust too, because we were only able to pull a hill together, and then we were reprimanded by our neighbors for being too loud, afterwhich, Chris was like... "Dude, the stars are sooooooo bright." That night was probably the only night that I took the time to look at the stars. They were VERRA pretty and bright and we could see tons of them.
Some of the girls had brought their swimsuits in anticipation of chilling in the jacuzzi, but once we got to the spa area, we saw that the jacuzzi was nasty looking as hell. It didn't help that there were two little boys hanging out there and were a bit creepy.
On one of the non-snowboarding days. We spent the day playing and rolling around in the snow. I forgot how much work building a snowman was. We were successful in creating one that was only slightly shorter than the girls, but man did it make us tired! The middle piece itself was so heavy that both Simona and Andrew had to sweat together to get it in place. The guys got together and built mini-forts for a snowball fight, then they banded their efforts to make a sledding path. Sledding on the thing plastic sheets was frightening, but freaking fantastic! It was a great rush and I think it might've been my favorite part of the whole trip (or maybe Ninja, I can't be sure ^_^). Towards the end of the sledding, we turned it into the gauntlet, wherein as somebody sledded down, they were pelted with snowballs. The girls also trekked up to the top (or mid top) and we were treated with an awesome view. It made me feel verra small, but it was verra nice.
The games we played were HILARIOUS! Viking ship, ninja, boom shika boom... Throughout the week we also played Cranium, Life, Hula and Naked Taboo. Naked Taboo was tons of fun, although, we almost killed each other playing it because everyone got super picky and anal about the technicalities and the rules. If we fought anymore, we would've had to take it outside and throw down in the snow. But hey, competition is healthy, si? Once we got to the charades part of it, everybody was just laughing and all hostilities were forgotten. I do think that we shouldn't play Naked Taboo for awhile, just so we can simmer down a bit. All the games were played Boys vs. Girls, and of course, the girls KICKED ASS.
BTW, who thinks In-and-Out is one word??
The last night was so much fun. It was verra sad to have everything end, and yet, it's probably a good thing because you shouldn't have too much of a good thing. And plus, now we get to look forward to next year!
Awww... look at all the smiling people. =)
All in all, it was grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat. We ate, we snowboarded, we drank, we bonded... GOOD TIMES.