Several weeks have passed...

And we don't have a lot to show for it.  We've gotten bad about not taking pictures that often, so you'll have to settle for lots of text.

Three weekends ago Kristen and I laid pretty low.  As far as we can remember, we didn't do a whole lot of anything.  If we did, our collective memory apparently only goes back 2 weeks.

Two weekends ago we headed out on Friday night to the annual Warren Miller movie showing.  We had about a dozen friends show up, and there was a lot of talk about ski trips, both past and future.  It appears that we'll have some new blood hanging out with us on the slopes this year, which always livens things up.

Saturday I headed into work for a few hours to prepare for the upcoming Portland trip.  Kristen met up with sister Allison and nephew Maddock and headed to the museum.  They watched an IMax movie about sea monsters, and generally checked out the museum.

Sunday I headed up to university hill with Nate to try to offload an old couch of his.  We grabbed lunch at the Sink.  I had a burger named the "Fat Pig Burger":  Bacon, smoked ham, pork brisket, all on top of a burger.  I didn't feel so well afterward.

The trip to Portland went well.  The big bosses didn't shoot us on sight, so we must be doing OK.  I didn't seem to piss off the corporate developers as much this time around, so I'm marking that up as improved people skills.

This last Friday Nate and I headed back up to the Hill to see Hell's Belles, an all female AC/DC cover band.  It'd been many years since Nate and I hung out at the Fox Theater, we had a lot of fun reminiscing about past misadventures there.  Hell's Belles were great as always.

Saturday Kristen and I headed out to do a bit of shopping.  We stopped by Westminster Mall, which definitely has one foot in the grave.  Half the store fronts were empty, and the stores that were there weren't offering the greatest of wares.  The place really had a mid to late 80s vibe to it, so we bought an Orange Julius and hung out at the arcade and Spencer's Gifts in order to get the full effect.

That evening we headed down to Golden to meet up with Ted, Kathy, and their new baby Ellie.  It was snowing like crazy on the way down, and the drive back was pretty exciting.  Ellie is very cute, and it was good to catch up with crazy Ted and Kathy.

It continued snowing throughout the night, which prompted Kristen and I to skip the annual Panicking Poultry race on Sunday morning.  The race went on without us, I can't imagine running in sub-freezing temperatures through 5 inches of snow.

The ski slopes are opening at a pretty good rate with all this recent snow.  It won't be too long before we make it up the hill.