Telluride!

So 6 days in beautiful Colorado (2 spent driving) and now I'm home. It was wonderful as always. his is my FOURTH year going with Davis and his family, which I think is pretty cool. And since

Amy got mad for never posting pics on my blogs I guess I will this time. There aren't any pictures from when we were actually skiing, simply because it is way to hard to get a camera out when it is freezing and snowing and you have two pairs of gloves on. :) The pretty tree below is right outside our hotel room.

Saturday was spent driving....and driving...and more driving. It takes about 8-9 hours to get to Telluride from Phoenix. We got to walk around Mountain Village a little bit, which is a town right on the slopes by Telluride.

Sunday was going to be our first day skiing (we were going to ski 3 out of the 4 days we were there), but it was snowing so we decide we would ski the next 3 days instead. These two pictures are from walking around Telluride. There are no chain stores of any kind in town, so all of the shopd are very original. You can see where the mountain is supposed to be, but due to the snow/fog it's hardly visible. I LOVE the town though....it looks like the little towns you see inside snowglobes.

Me and Davis's tradition every year is to make a snowman, and then have a snowball fight, and this year was no different. Our snowmen are always fat, and weird looking, because the snow there does not stick very well. We end up just making a pile of snow and carving out top middle and bottom. This year was our best one yet though....his name is Bob.

Monday was our first day skiing and it was wonderful!!! We went all day, only stopping for lunch. I'm getting to the point where I can almost keep up with Davis! We went out to a coll litlle pizza place called Brown Dog Pizza, named because of the dog that always sits out front of the restaurant.

Now Tuesday was not so good. It started snowing Monday night and it was pouring snow on Tuesday. Everyone else had goggles they could ski with so the snow wouldn't get in their eyes, but I only have little sunglasses, which protect nothing. I could've bought some, but the cheapest ones were $80 and I didn't want to spend that much. So the rest of the fam went skiing, and Davis stayed behind with me (sweet kid huh? He said he didn't want me to be by myself all day). We went and walked around Mountain Village again. The coolest part of that was the gondola ride to Mountain Village from Telluride. The first picture is a shopping center in the Village, the second is a view of Telluride from the Gondola. The gondola is much like a ski lift, except you are enclosed in a little capsule. It takes you all the way across the mountain...so pretty! Davis kept getting scared because the Gondola would stop and start swaying back and forth....he's cute. The ice skating pond was buried in about a foot of snow by this point. All the trees looked like a postcard! When we got back we had another snowball fight and stayed cozy by the fire the rest of the time. That night we ate at Fat Alley's, a cool little hamburger place in town.

Wednesday....still snowing...alot. But I dealt with it because I had to go skiing!! It was foggy and scary, and I couldn't see half the time becuase me glasses were foggy. It was fun though. We did some harder runs and I was proud becuase I didn't fall! This picture is me, Davis, his bro Justin, and Justin's girlfriend Jackie at the bottom of the mountain. That night we ate at Smuggler's, which is a restaurant that had it's own brewery downstairs. We eat there every year, and every year it's good. This year I had cheese ravioli with marinara sauce! YUM!!!

Thursday was the long drive home. It was a beautiful day out- no snow and lots of sun...perfect for skiing. Oh well. For those of you who have heard about the blizzard that shut down Denver...we got the beginnings of that storm. It literally snowed from Monday late afternoon until late Wednesday night nonstop. Telluride got about 2-3 feet of snow in that 3 day period. Insanity. These icicles were about 6 inches long the day we arrived...the day we left they were a couple of feet long!

And now I'm home!!! Normally I wouldn't be so excited, but my Christmas starts today! Me and Davis are making a ginger bread house today, the later going to decorate cookies with his Grandma. Tomorrow is the Perkins Christmas, then xmas eve and xmas day!!! yay!! Hope you all enjoyed my incredibly long post!!! I'll leave you with a beautiful picture of the mountain from the day we left...the wind was blowing the snow of the top of the mountain...so pretty!

Off to the Slopes

Well I am off to go skiing for 6 days in Telluride, CO!!! We actually leave tomorrow and are back the 21st. I am so excited!!!!! I will have many many pictures when I return! :)

Perfection

My friend Theresa posted this on her blog...I'm not positive if she wrote it or not, but either way it is pretty cool....and very true.

"The Perfect Man...

Now, I have heard that the "perfect man" doesn't exist, by a number of highly respectable people. But Pleaaasse, send my apologies to Oprah because I refuse to submit to this nonsense. The perfect man DOES exist, and he's not as hard to find as people think!

What women today need to do is reassess their definitions of "Perfection". It seems that "Perfect" is all too often being mistaken for "WORSHIP" and when a woman "feels" that she is no longer the literal source of her boyfriend/husband/significant other's oxygen intake, He doesn't "appreciate" her anymore and should be imeddiately burnt at the stake.

I am sorry, maybe I am not up to date on the "How to be a snot-faced-hard-to-Deal-with-everybody-hates me- Princess manual" But ladies, through the course of history science had proven a number of highly remarkable things, one of which, is that you're boyfriend can inhale on his own. It's called the respiratory system, and its main function is to ensure that your lovie is breathing, whether he is with YOU or not.

I don't mean be harsh, but women would be a lot happier if they would just recognize that all men aren't the devil. They need to Stop watching all these soap operas and movies, that portray the PERFECT man as being someone who would literally walk bare foot one-hundred miles through the worse snow storm of the century, while singing "you are my sunshine", just to retrieve the left sock that you PURPOSELY left at your grandmothers.

It's not going to happen ladies...Only a moron would even attempt a task such as that. And for those girls who are like, "my boyfriend would do that for ME!" You're wrong, or at least let's hope you're wrong. Because if he would, that would make your boyfriend an Idiot, and we all know that the "perfect man" can't be that!

No, he has to be a genius, the kind of Doogie Houser genius. This way, you and your friends will never be capable of having a real conversation with him because through out the two years you were in beauty school, you never attained a FRACTION of the intelligence he acquired in the eight years at Harvard Medical School. (That's a winner.) So, six months later when you're feeling useless, unappreciated, and heaven forbid, normal, you're going to hate him for not acknowledging that you are in fact the female equivalent to God, and thus should be treated like a God, not as though you could possibly be like anyone else every brought into existence!
Puh-leasss ladies, read the following carefully, because if you can store even the smallest bit information that is written below, you may have a chance at happiness in love, which will result in the happiness in life….

The perfect man isn't a genius, he doesn't hang on your every word, and he doesn't do EVERYTHING you ask of him. He is in fact normal, and he will probably forget your anniversary or birthday at least once in your life. He will probably break something trying to fix it, he will probably lock the kids in the car a couple of times, and he will DEFINITELY say the wrong things. But you have realize that it's the flaws in a man that will make him "perfect". It's the fact that you CAN have a real conversation with him, without feeling stupid and that he DOES treat you like a normal person. It's that every time you're with him, you get to laugh at his mistakes, his lousy jokes, and the stupid things that he tries, but doesn't successfully achieve, doing for YOU. It's the fact that he'll tell you, "NO" or that YOU are being ridiculous, that YOU are over-reacting, that YOUR cooking is HORRIBLE, lol… and that it's okay, because to him, it's YOUR flaws that make YOU perfect."

No more school for Lisa!

I just had a meeting with my academic advisor...dun dun dun. No-it went very well actually. She said I am all on track to graduate in Spring 2008, as long as I take 15 credits the rest of the time I'm here, which shouldn't be a problem. The GREAT news is that she said I don't have to go to grad school. Everyone had always told me that as a sociology major I should go to grad school. My advisor said that unless I want to teach or do research it is not important that I go. So...I'm not going to. :) I have no desire to spend 2 more years in school after I get my BA. Plus, I can always go back to grad school if I decide that I really want to later on. However, I am considering adding on another minor in Special Events Management, so that means I wouldn't graduate until December 2008. I'm just excited that I am soooooo very close to being done with school. At most I have 4 semesters left, but possibly as few as 3! Oh-I decided I am going to take that Contemporary Women Writers course instead of Religions of the World, so that I can get some upper division credits out of the way. OK-time to go to class and listen to some very boring presentations. Last day of this class though-and no final! Hope everyone has a fantastic day!

Oh and btw- Brad Paisley has a Christmas CD coming out! I can't wait! Someone better get it for me (ahem...Davis...ahem...)