Vail Life

I want to spend some time talking about how my generation doesn't seem to talk on the phone anymore. Case-in-point, I called my parents for Christmas. Other than actually talking to them I got exactly 11 text messages from different people wishing me Merry Christmas. One of them is from a number I don't know and the person didn't leave a name at the end of the message so I have no idea who it was. I guess text messages are the new Christmas cards of my generation. Thing is, my phone just doesn't look as pretty propped up on top of my TV.

Anyways I would talk more about that but I really have to get back to work.

And not just because of other skiers slamming into me at 60 mph on the groomers. This happened this last weekend when I was out on Vail Mountain with friends. The only reason I wasn't back in these bowls is because I had out-of-town friends staying with me and one of them was a skier who had to stick to groomers.

VAIL, Colorado - Sunday started out as a typical powder day in Vail, Colorado for Matt Jones.

The Eagle-Vail resident and his wife were in line at the gondola early, eager to ski the 12 inches of powder that Vail Mountain had reported that morning.

The snow was indeed "ridiculous," Jones said, and they quickly made their way to Blue Sky Basin. On their second run there, they headed to the cornice that’s below the Skyline Express Lift.

Jones watched two skiers drop in on the Lover's Leap trail, and after they skied away, he took his turn.

"I jumped off, landed, made one quick turn to the left and slope broke," Jones said.

The avalanche on Lover’s Leap in Blue Sky Basin on Colorado's Vail Mountain was 3 feet deep and about 600 feet long.

Ski season is open now and I have put in three days so far. Also I am starting to get over the fall season blues and getting out and doing more stuff again so hopefully I will start posting here more and maybe even start working on the comic again.

Anyways, lots of stuff to do yet so I will try and update with any fun stuff later.

My mom and dad have had a bunch of exchange students. They were recently interviewed in a local paper and talked about their experiences.

Original article can be found here. I have repeated it in full below in case it gets dropped out of the archives.

Pine Journal

Our Neighbors...Arlette and Ron Haupt
Lisa Baumann Pine Journal
Published Thursday, November 20, 2008

Arlette and Ron Haupt don’t quite know what to do when it’s just the two of them.
Although they’ve been married 34 years and have two children who graduated from high school and moved away years ago, their empty nest syndrome never fully took hold.

Instead, the Carlton couple has played host to foreign exchange students – and have welcomed their 24th and 25th this year.