The last three months - travelling and having a life?! (part 2)

[nyankoframe]

Started posting this from Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport in Ohio (though what's international about it, I don't really know...) and continuing from Grand Rapids, MI, and then eventually at my cousin's house. What a long post. ^^;;


After I came back from New York, things were pretty busy at work for a while, so I didn't go anywhere, and I wasn't planning on going anywhere for a while. Some friends of mine in Seattle asked me whether I would join them in going up to Vancouver during the Thanksgiving weekend for some skiing. I accepted with some misgivings, since I'd never gone skiing before, but figured that I might as well give it a try. After all, the most that could happen would be that I'd fail and fall down, right? ;)

Well, I'm proud to say not only that I survived skiing, but I also had a wonderful time at Whistler Blackcomb and I'm actually hooked on skiing now to the extent that I've been trying to get itsacz to join me. He seems to be resisting so far though but I will eventually wear down his defenses. >O



Pictures from Whistler

I came back from Whistler pretty thrilled about it, especially since I had a lot of delicious hot chocolate with whipped cream. ^^ Things were pretty quiet both at work and in terms of social life, although it did snow quite a lot on December 1st, to the point that it was a winter wonderland:




I went to San Jose for a work weekend, and met testing4l, gemlikeflame, relsqui and zigdon there and much fun was had over Fluxx and Mongolian BBQ. Though I must say relsqui and testing4l are pretty good at changing the rules to suit themselves. ;)

One of my friends was going back to Singapore the following weekend, so we organized a trip to a gun range for her, since she wouldn't be able to do that in Singapore. And so it was that I fired a weapon for the first time (since I never did in NS), even if it was a 9mm pistol:





Snow and Shooting

I left for Michigan last night to spend a few days with my cousin, and so here I am. :)

Comments

[testing4l.livejournal.com]

Oh man, skiing is so awesome. I haven't done it in so long. We should totally ski.

If there were time, we could go to big bear and you could ski in a T-shirt and short sleeves. That's like the most awesome and super Californian thing you can do.

[nyankoframe.livejournal.com]

How much time do we have? :P