Last weekend Dad and I went skiing at Mad River Glen and Stowe. Both resorts had gotten about 3′ of snow the week before, and conditions were awesome!
There’s a bunch more snow in the forecast for this week, although I’m unfortunately heading to Vail/Beaver Creek at the end of the week so I won’t be able to enjoy it until I get back.
Yesterday Jerry, Mike, Nathan and I went skiing at Wilmot Mountain, southeast Wisconsin’s world renown ski and snowboard resort. With a 230′ vertical drop, skiers from all over northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin flock to tame its awesome slopes. You could literally be right next to the mountain and not even realize it’s there. Oh, I also forgot to mention that the reason there’s even a hill there at all is because it’s a landfill. We used to go there with middle school ski club, and it was really funny to be back. I wore jeans and a really ugly 80’s jacket and goggles. I used my dad’s old pair of Kastle’s from ~1985. I think they were 210cm.
I tried to hit some rails with amusing results. We had forward races, backward races, one-foot races, binding wars, and through-the-legs skiing challenges. And we ate fried cheese curds dipped in cheese sauce. And on the way back we hit up the Jew Express:
Although it wasn’t as exciting as 2004 (thank you national league for another boring Series), the Red Sox won the World Series again!!! It’s sad that the National League is so bad now. Maybe the American Leauge teams with large payrolls are stealing talented players from the National League? Anyway, unlike 2004, I was around to see the championship parade! Here’s two good pictures of us:
It was a beautiful day and everyone was so excited. The Dropkick Murphy’s had their own flatbed truck in the parade, and we learned afterward that Papelbon was on the float, dancing jigs when it stopped. There were some good chants too – “Sign Mike Lowell!” and “Don’t sign A-Rod!”. One guy had a sign that said: “A-Rod: Mr. April, Miss October”. After the parade there was some sky writing – an airplane wrote “Red Sox” in the sky above Boston. It was really cool and I tried to take some pictures of it, but by the time he had finished “Sox”, most of the “Red” had already disappeared.