KingLou Drops Science 2.0

My mom turned 65 in January and to celebrate she decided she wanted to go on another fun travel vacation like we did when she was 60. For 60 we went skiing in Switzerland. Of course it was the worst conditions in 50 years. Total snow drought. So this year we decided we wanted to go skiing again but more stateside and less Vermot. So we decided to head to Colorado. Breckenridge to be exact. None of use had ever been there and Colorado has been dumped on this year so it was a win win. What follows is weird notes from the trip.

Flight was oversold. Travel party is Mom, Mike, Jodi, Ace & Me. Everyone scattered all over the plane. I am sitting in front of Jodi and Ace. Frontier Airlines is pretty nice. There are 24 channels of TV for $5. I decided it was worth it. There was a decent selection of shows but there were still commercials. I felt like "Hey I am paying for this... NO COMMERCIALS" so I ended up flipping the channels constantly and reading the magazine of the woman next to me. She likes redecorating. How unusual....

For the trip I bought some games for my iPod to kill time. I bought the mini golf and the texas hold'em poker game. The reviews of the mini golf game were right on. It looks good and it's fun but it only took me 3x to destroy the first course. I was 2 over par the first 2 tries and 10 under par that last one. The 2nd course was a lot harder but do-able. Texas hold'em I bought because I don't know shit about poker and I know that it's like poker for retards. I ended up playing a bunch of it. I now know more about poker but I am still not good at it. In the end my brother really took my ipod video. He probably watched most of "It's always sunny in Philadelphia." and he beat all the golf courses in Mini Golf and advanced in Texas Holdem. I saved my iPod Video time for the flight home. I watched the Trailer Park Boys movie. It was great as usual. Not crazy about them using a different girl for Trinity but the original one is probably 16 by now. Too fucking old.

Plane arrived in Denver w/o incident. Then the waiting began. We waited for an hour for our luggage and that didn't even include our skis and stuff. So my mom and I decided to go get the car while Mike, Jodi and Ace waited for the skis. Getting the car turned into a 2 hour wait. The line to get a car was retardedly long. We were given a car but told it was brand new and needed to set up. When it finally arrived we had to wait for the Hertz guy to install the ski rack and the child seat. That took like 45 minutes. Also when the car arrived another woman came out and was like "This is my car" because the geniuses at Hertz gave her the same car as us. But since we were already waiting for the Hertz guy to install all the shit we ordered she went inside to vent on the desk jerks. So were finally got on the road about 3 hours after arriving Denver. The drive to the mountain was 2 hours more. So we rolled into Breckenridge at 12:30am. Which of course was like 2:30am in New York. We were exhausted.

The lodging is interesting. I think we're spoiled by the condos in Vermont. This place is kind of low rent in comparison. I don't know if it actually IS low rent. In fact I doubt it. It's very close to the mountain. we walk there rather than wait for the free van. But the condo itself is kind of crummy. There is no "in-unit" laundry. The laundry room itself was in the basement and if we didn't happen to have a flash light we probably wouldn't have been able to use it. There are barely enough towels, too. The in condo literature plainly states that they have given you enough for the amount of people that should comfortably fit in the unit and if they are dirty to wash them in the laundry. Again, its in the dark scary basement. The condo space is ok but there is a crazy hum in our bedroom. Origin unknown. The last day it was mysteriously gone. I am assuming someone was degaussing a huge collection of 8 tracks tapes. Thats the only reasonable possibility. Another bad thing about the condo is that when we arrived Ace said "Someone died in here.... a lady died." Which was totally creepy. It made me think about that recent movie promo about kids experiencing paranormal phenomena. I don't want Ace to see dead people. I want him to see people's social securtity #'s and other personal info so we can become Identity Thieves!

First ski day - we got going too late for Ace's ski class. Good bye money. We split the day into 2 halves. Jodi & my mom went skiing until 1 and then Mike and I went. Really great conditions. Probably some of the warmest skiing I have done in a long time. The trails are in good shape. Not fresh powder but even all the way across.

While the girls ski'd Mike and Ace and I went to the grocery store. I love grocery stores outside of NYC. So much awesome bounty. And the discounts! I mean it's cheaper than NY already and then for no reason it's cheaper again. We saved $17 on groceries just for signing up for the stupid grocery card. How awesome is that. Bought some Tommyknocker beer that was was wheat beer spiced with lemon grass. Delish! The only problem with the supermarket is that it's the only major food source in the area and on a Sunday it's been totally raided of most major food stuffs. There was almost no eggs, yogurt and other assorted goods and sundries. There was still enough sustenance for life to be had. I made turkey tacos and drank a ton of soda. I am totally thirsty all the time! This hasn't changd in 4 days. No matter how much I drink I get thirsty all the time. Hello diabetes.