January13

To Winter Park and Back

As my boss so eloquently said on the American Copywriter blog about me not getting the new podcast up on Friday, “Sethy G. saw fit to go snowboarding this week.” Damn right I saw it fit, bossman, and by golly I did go. Todd and I loaded up last Saturday and made the dangerous trek to Denver, Colorado to visit with my cousin and her family. Then, on Sunday, we were on to our penultimate destination – Winter Park/Fraser, Colorado.

This is our third year to make the trip... but this year’s trip was quite a bit different than the previous years’. As I did with last year’s snowboard trip post, here’s the breakdown of my vacation, in numeros:

Los Basics

...awesome dudes on the trip: 2
...snowboards: 2
...snowboards owned by either awesome dude: 1
...atm visits: 1
...PowerBooks taken: 2
...iPods taken: 4
...working iPods returned with: 3

El Drive

...empty seats in the Honda Element: 3
...ice scrapers: 2 (if you count credit cards, 0, if you don’t)
...times “XM radio rocks!” was exclaimed: 13
...pages of Eragon read: 163
...episodes of The Ricky Gervais Show listened to: 5 (great, great, great stuff folks... Karl Pilkington is one of the funniest people I’ve listened to in a long time)
...unsuccessful thrift store stops: 1
...times granulated peanuts were offered to each other: 17

El Condo

...WiFi connections found: 0
...calls answered on our cell phones: 0
...seconds before realizing we had no cell phone or internet service: 12
...beds: 2
...positions I slept in to lessen my back pain: 8
...pills I popped to lessen my back pain: 24
...fires in the fireplace: 5
...hot tub visits: 1
...cable channels received: 10 (we got HBO, but not ESPN, CNN or MTV)
...replayed college basketball games watched: 3
...kick-ass documentaries kinda-watched: 1 (“Country Boys,” check it out... this is what reality tv should be)
...toy dinosaurs hidden: 13

El Fraser, Colorado

...WiFi connections found: 3
...calls answered on our cell phones: 2, maybe (do other Colorado towns have this problem too?)
...weird internet shops with pay-for-internet service: 1
...times visited: 0
...coffee shops with pay-for-internet service: 1
...times visited: 2
...successful thrift store stops: 1
...shops where the owners have dogs in them: all of them

Los Meals

...trips to Safeway: 4
...dinners cooked at the condo: 4
...times stopped at McDonald’s: 3
...lunches on the mountain: 1.5
...times we got screwed because the grill at “Snoasis” closed at 2:00: 1
...times we went back to “Snoasis”: 0
...Big Burritos eaten at the Crooked Creek Saloon: 2

Los Slopes

...days on the mountain: 4 (straight)
...times we went down Wildwood Glade and Bluebell: 15
...hours spent on Vasquez Ridge: 3, tops
...times unbuckling on “roads”: 27
...minutes spent trying to figure out alternative paths from “roads”: 45
...trips to the top of the mountain: 2
...hours spent getting down Primrose and Backside Parsenn: 2
...times we said, “holy shit it’s cold,” on Thursday: 33

El Miscellaneous

...new jackets purchased: 1
...new gloves purchased: 4 (8, total, if you count the glove inserts)
...theater movies watched: 1 (“Hostel,” and we’re still undecided if it was good or not)
...silly ass movies made: 4, maybe 5
...“about a thousand dollars” was said: 36
...cold sores Todd got: 1
...gas was passed in the condo: 379
...gas was passed in the car on the way home: 0 (seriously, there MUST be something about the air up there... does anyone else experience the same thing?)

El Conclusion

...times I said, “I’m glad we did this.”: 5

El Extra Credit (say the following things without an accent)

Tennis bowl
My tricks
The lost unicorn

+ original post date: January 13, 2006 09:59 PM
+ categories: All About Seth, Family/Friends, Funny, Ha Ha, Movies, Travel/Vacations

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HEY, UNLESS YOUR BOSS HAS HIS TONGUE IN HIS CHEEK, YOU NEED TO RECONSIDER. I KNOW HE DIDN'T HAVE HIS HEAD UP HIS ASS...IT'S TOO TIGHT TO GET ANYTHING UP THERE!!!

AGAIN, UNLESS HE IS JUST FUNNIN'...HE CAN BLOW IT OUT HIS ASS.

+ author: CRASYDAD
+ posted: January 15, 2006 11:09 AM

uh did you use my word in this post?
oh and ashley had her baby.

+ author: smanley
+ posted: January 15, 2006 07:47 PM

January13

To Winter Park and Back

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