Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Portland and Moving...

I'm a slackass, I know. I've been super busy with work this month. Not a great excuse but there you go. So... Chris and I went to Portland after the Breck weekend and had a GREAT time!! It was his birthday and he's never been so as y'all know, it's one of my favorite cities so I had some input on where we went. Skied Mt. Hood on Friday and it was a great mountain, with the exception of falling on my ass the whole time. And since the snow is harder and wetter, it hurts a helluva lot more.
Mt. Hood


Saturday we just toured Portland and walked around downtown (of course I took him to Powell's and Kell's!). It was awesome weather there for that time of year. This is a pic of Chris by the Columbia (?) River. You can barely see it but that's Mt. Hood in the background. We stayed at McMenamin's Kennedy School. It's a converted school and the classrooms are the hotel rooms. There's a movie theater and about 7 different bars in it. It was really cool.
And so the moving part - I'm moving into a new apartment. I'm closer to both Lindsay and Chris and Chloe won't be harassed by the P's (Dawn's cats) anymore so I'm looking forward to it. It's right by the Univ of CO Hospital system and in an area called Congress Park/Mayfair. All the big stuff hopefully will be in this weekend. I'll update with pictures as soon as I get my stuff in. As for Mr. Morris... Mom and I are working out logistics of his big move to Denver but probably won't get him until late spring, early summer. That's all for now. Hope everyone is having a great week!

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Breckenridge

Hi everyone! Hope all is well. I heard it's cold as shit in Charleston right now while I'm sitting in 58 degree weather out here. Crazy! Chris and I spent this past weekend in Breck and had an awesome time. It was nice to ski Friday and Saturday and not worry about driving back home in traffic. Here are a few pics and I'll update again next week after my weekend in Portland!

Peak 9. I stayed on the slopes in the middle but Chris, the professional skier that he is, went to the top on the far right.



Top of Peak 9 - where it was windy as all get out

My celebration after linking some turns

Telling Chris to quit taking pictures of me only when I fall


A much needed and deserved beer after a day on the mountains!