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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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Aside

Post-Grad

9 Feb

R decided to decline the writing of the blog post this week which I think is super lame!  She is the one who is the writer in this group.  So I guess we are stuck with me…

I graduated from UCSC (& I am absolutely a slug at heart) in December and decided to get reunited with my roots by moving back to WYO for a minute.  Leaving in a whirlwind of craziness on Christmas Eve was a perfect last Santa Cruz adventure filled with epic couch wars, a handful of random people sifting through belongings, a spaceship playing fractured images of Star Wars, some furniture dumping outside of a charity, and packing and re-packing my small car so I could make sure to bring home the love of my life.  We arrived in a flurry of incoherent speech, bloody noses, and so-tired-you-pass-out while-sitting-up Christmas Day fun.

Since I have been back in the Mountain Region I have been swing/country dancing whenever possible, meeting up with childhood friends, living with my G-Parents in the small town of Sinclair (seriously small town – maybe 400 people living around a post office, a surprisingly decent Mexican restaurant, and two shit-hole bars, all on the same 5-block street), and drinking ridiculous amounts of vodka to help deal with it all (I don’t know if it’s the altitude, cold or excessivnality, but I can drink so much more up here without getting drunk).  As much fun as this may sound, I soon reached the level of stir crazy after about a month, and I packed up my truck and drove down to Colorado to meet my much-missed California friend HaA2 to snowboard.

My time in Colorado was a bit crazy.  Her sister, who turned 18 while we were dragging ourselves around the mountains, conducted a car symphony in front of the I-70 Eisenhower Tunnel (we were stuck waiting in traffic for around 2 hours and what better way to pass the time then using all the cars stuck in the same situation to make some fantastic music?), we met a dog who loved to do butt slides on icy snow , and we saved an incredibly drunk little girl from getting hit by a bus (this was of course after the line dancing with M on top of a bar… oh tequila!).

Currently, I am back in M‘s house and I have no idea what the future holds! Well, I do know that on March 20th I am going to Costa Rica.  But I am hoping for at least few more lists of awesomeness before I lose my mind and have to pack up the truck again.

 

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