Archive | March, 2012

How February leaped into March!!

13 Mar

Last time I left off I had just arrived at my mother’s house on the 8th of Feb.  where we delt with car issues and danced the night away at the Beacon.  After hearing about a snow storm I drove back down to the Colorado Rockies on the 12th after a cross-country session with my advanced skier mom!

Arriving in Colorado I was greeted with powder and met many outstanding individuals.  We made a heart-shaped pizza on Valentines Day, took pictures in a photo booth with two random girls, we were stuck in a snow bank and three gentlemen from different vehicles pulled up to help push us free, experienced Boulder (a nice reminder of Santa Cruz), and finally visited an old neighbor and was greeted with 11 inches of more powder!

The delicious romantic veggie pizza!

Once you get to ride 11 inches of fresh powder you just have to go for a drive.  So we ended the snowboarding session with a seven hour and four minute drive to Albuquerque, New Mexico.  Here we went to Sandia Crest, saw a crop circle outside of the observatory and ended the Mardi Gras evening at Parrots.  The next day we drove to Taos and bought green chile on the way back to WYO.

M and her husband decided to go on a trip to Yellowstone!  This was incredibly exciting as I love bacteria and many thrive in this National Park.  We drove in and left 45 minutes before the road was closed.  It was a white out and the driver could not see a thing!  But it was remarkable.  After our snowcats made it to Old Faithful we stayed in an adorable cabin and went snowshoeing.  On this adventure my mother and I broke trail and ran right into Bison (not to be mistaken as Buffalo)!  It was by far one of the most amazing things I have done in my life.

The Bison in the Wild

The loving couple

After Yellowstone I decided to check out the famous Jackson Hole!  I was blessed with 23 inches of powder, an extraordinary hike, and even more incredible sunset on leap day.

Today I sit in my mother’s house thinking oh my! It looks like its finals week….  Which means that I will be posting photos later, after I get my studying done!

I will leave you with a pic of the planning process in action:

hangin out

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i’m not dead… Updated 3/13/2012

6 Mar

I was just making the most epic hat ever…  I even put a bird on it!

Pictures and real post to follow.

*Updated*

As promised, from the camera of my friend Jami Davis, who should really get paid for this type of work:

The hat waiting patiently for its turn in the spotlight

Jami, Ann & i got our fancy lady ideas out and decided to make some ridiculously fantastic hats for Jami’s 30th-Birthday-weekend-long-extravaganza in San Francisco.

My hat is so fancy it even has a bird on it.

This required not only substantial drinking, but ribbon and birds.  Ann rocked a classic east coast wide-brimmed white beauty.  Jami has a classy butterfly (who i will name Bettina) and, not to be outdone by the chance to make a huge hat even more wonderful, mine has Phillip in a purple nest.  Yes, yes i did glue feathers on his bum to make him better able to match my salad dress.

That is us in front of a race track. Betting on horses may be my new favorite pastime... Especially if i get to wear such fancy clothes!!

See?  Salad dress.  Trust me about Bettina, Jami’s hat is just tilted because Bettina could not tear her eyes away from the track.  I tell you, betting on a horse at random is exhilarating!  It also helps that we bet $2 at a time and Ann had a tip about a horse in the 9th 🙂

Thanks for being awesome my friends!!  And for wearing our hats in public with pride!

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