Successful visit

Kirstin came up again last week, and this time I was able to actually hang out and have fun with her.  I'd managed to get my hands on a couple of free passes to ski A-Basin (a few free movie tickets may have changed hands), and convinced Kirstin to go skiing with me.  She'd never skied downhill before, but had gone cross-country skiing and rollerblading.  At first thought you might not think that knowing how to rollerblade would help in learning to ski, but they both require paying lots of attention to where your feet are pointing.  We stuck to the bunny slope most of the day, and by the end I could tell she had gotten comfortable enough to try going faster and  making sharper turns.  True, she fell down a lot (we both did), but after a few hours she had the hang of it enough that she let me take her higher up the mountain to try one of the longer green runs.  (green=easy, blue=medium, black=hard).

Having survived A-Basin with only minor bruising and sunburns, we returned all our rented equipment and went to Nozawa for sushi.  In my damp, disheveled condition I felt like a scruff and argued for getting takeout rather than sitting down in the quiet well-maintained resturaunt, but Kirstin wouldn't hear of it.  After stuffing ourselves with rice and seafood, we spent the rest of the evening watching Firefly.  I'd never gotten around to watching all the episodes, and Kristin declared she would make me.  In the breaks between, I showed her some of my own eclectic collection.  Some of which she thought were quite silly (Scott Pilgrim, Brak, Space Ghost), and others she just plain didn't get (Sealab 2021).

I almost managed to drag her along to game night again, until the weather started turning nasty and she decided to try to beat it back home before she got stuck up here for another week.  My own opinion was that that wouldn't be a bad thing, but responsibillity won out over goofing off with friends and she headed home.

So I declare this visit a success, particularly when compared to the last one.