Luxurious Keystone Adventure

Jake's company (SCCA Enterprises) is a wonderful place to work. It is also a wonderful place for someone's husband to work, because not only do they treat their employees well, but they include the spouses (lucky me!).

We spent the better part of this past week being wined and dined at Keystone Resort. It was the type of get-away that Jake and I would never pay for (pretty impractical), but I sure did soak it in while we were up there.

We got to stay at the base of the mountain and walk a mere few hundred feet to the gondola for three days of snowboarding, including some night riding and hitting fresh powder in the back bowles. We also were treated to fabulous dinners at high-end restaurants and lunches on the mountain (which charge the same as high-end restaurants, but serve food found at fast-food restaurants).

All in all, it was a lovely little adventure, but I think Jake is nervous that the bar was set too high for our future vacations. I hope he's not right. :)

And... no pictures. :( Jake and I both brought our cameras, but neither one had batteries and we didn't bring our camera chargers. Wa wa. Oh well. Here's what I could find in Google Images to supplement my own lack of pictures:

Beautiful night skiing at Keystone.

The powder in the South Bowl. We did a little hiking to get there and it was definitely worth it.

The Red Hawk Lodge. Beautiful and convenient setting.

We went to a polka-infested fondue night on the top of the mountain our last night there.

Thanks SCCA!

Me Writing My Paper

This is me writing my paper tonight:

Open up Google home page. Check email.
Open up school webpage. Check email.
Open Facebook. Check updates.
Look at the news headlines for a while....


Oh ya. Paper. Ok, focus. Close internet. 

Open word document for paper.

Shoot. I need study music. Open Google home page. Open Pandora for music.
Check email. Check Facebook. Check blog site.

Dang it. Focus. Close internet. 

Pull up word document. Write a few sentences.

Don't like the Pandora song. Hit the down-thumb. Back to the paper.
Repeat several times. Change Pandora station. Repeat down-thumb scenario again.

*sigh*

Close Pandora. Open I-Tunes to my saved study music.


Back to the paper. Write a bit more.

Thirsty! Get a drink. And decide to add some ambiance. Light my coconut bay candle.

FOCUS. PAPER. UGH. 

Write a little more on the paper.

Get uncomfortable. Change into a sundress (it sounded comfortable). Realize sundress + winter = bad idea. Hence, get cold. Put on Jake's Snuggie.

Return to paper.... 

Ok, you get the idea.

Luckily, I can report that I have successfully focused on writing without taking a break for the past six minutes. Now back to the real writing that I should have been doing all night. Dang paper saga. Capstone thesis papers are no joke and they do not work well with me being antsy.

A LOVEly Weekend

What a fun little weekend we had! Jake took me shopping on Friday night, we went up snowboarding at Keystone on Saturday, went to church on Sunday morning and then headed downtown for Sunday and Monday. I won a free night's stay at a downtown hotel a few months ago and decided to redeem it on Valentines Day weekend. Jake had Valentines Day off work, so we were able to make a two-day deal out of it all. They even upgraded our room to a King Suite with a mountain view. It was so fun! We ate some Mongolian BBQ, PinkBerry yogurt, and got a Starbucks with all the businessy people downtown. We enjoyed the people watching, which is always quality along 16th Street. We went to the Museum of Nature and Science, and then went over to my work for about an hour. I had to teach an after-school program at a downtown school, so Jake went with me and saw a piece of my Boy Scout world. It was funny. Once we got back home, I made Jake his favorite Chicken Parm. Goooood weekend. :)

By far, the funniest moment of the whole weekend happened at the museum. I was getting my resting heart beat measured and was at a steady 63 when Jake came up and started whispering in my ear about pregnancy (for those of you who don't know, I am daily nervous about the possibility). My heart rate immediately sky-rocketed to 85!!! We were laughing so hard we started to cause a scene amongst the mothers with strollers and field-trip children around us. It was hilarious.

Valentines Day Weekend Extravaganza

BD's Mongolian Grill was so good!

Delicious dinner downtown.

We played a VERY serious late-night game of checkers at the hotel.

Morning breakfast, reading the paper like the regulars.

I was trying to be stealthy with my picture taking on the bus...

.... but Jake discovered the camera.

Day at the Museum

At the museum downtown we rediscovered all the fun science experiments available. Those two faces are both Jake. 

The aging predictor was probably the most terrifying thing at the museum. Jake at 70. Eikes!!!

Nothing says "I Love You" more than a picture of what I will look like at age 70. Or even worse, at age 70 with sun damage (picture on the right). Truly frightening.

We also had fun with this thing... it sensed your brain waves and you had to control them and be calm in order to beat your opponent. The funniest time was when Jake and I were at a dead stand off of competition for several minutes. I guess we're pretty compatible. :)

In honor of Josiah Trowbridge... I guess the word fondle does have multi-uses.

Jake is a very attractive moose.

Goodbye museum.

Love love!