Stoved Up

Accidents happen and even when they aren't your fault they are still a drag. Friday driving home from the office a dude pulled out in front of Ben and the Camry. Luckily bad driver had insurance and was gracious enough to admit it was totally his fault. The first thing bad driver asked Ben after getting out of his vehicle was "How stoved up is your car" Oh Maine slang, too funny. The car is stoved up but drivable, fixable, and no one was injured, phew.

Yesterday was Martin Luther King Day, if you didn't know that you probably had to work. I didn't have school so I celebrated MLK day at Sunday River Ski Resort. It was quite cold so we pretty much had the slopes to ourselves which was way sweet. I have now used my season pass 2 times which is just not enough. Seriously more snowboarding, less studying and working Mindi! I am totally kidding, I know I am pretty darn lucky to be able to get out as much as I do, thanks Ben!

In other awesome news, I got copies of all the pictures everyone took during our Baxter State Park trip. The ease of digital photography sometimes makes for alot of repetitive and dumb photos. For example there were 5 people on our trip that was only 5 days long and we had 3 cameras. How in the world did we end up 323 pictures? Most of them were crap but I did find this diamond in the rough, between the guy acting as the messiah and the butt on the right side of the picture there is alot to look at. Timer shots, they can be awesome!

Giddy Up

Yo, I am back in the saddle and ready for another grueling semester. I have class 11-12 and 4-6:30, Monday and Wednesday, and that is all baby. Ben is jealous, heck I am jealous.

Ben and I spent 10 days in MN shuffling between families and exhausting our selves over the holidays. We also celebrated our best new years eve ever, ringing 2008 in on the tarmac in a plane headed for Boston. With the poor weather it took us 24 hours to get home, in that time we could have driven but hey we made it safe. While we were gone most of our snow here had melted and was replaced by about 4 feet of fresh stuff, which was great expect for the half of a day it took just to get the car in the driveway.

The snow was perfectly timed as I had an extended cross country ski trip planned over break. 5 supernerds embarked on a journey that would take them halfway up Maine's largest peak through the 200,000 acre Baxter State Park. The snow was awesome but warm temps melted 24 inches of it in 2 days and our progress was impeded by rivers of runoff and slick conditions. Via skis, snowshoes and boots we trudged through 30 miles of park and up and down 2200 feet.When the fog lifted the views were awesome, hard to believe this place is right in our backyard.