Steph and I joined Nick in his shared cabin for a weekend of skiing/snowboarding in Tahoe. We went to Heavenly the first day and I sat out the second day when the two of them went to Kirkwood. I really enjoyed most of the runs, but the traverses were terrible, and at one point I had to hike a couple hundred yards through powder, which wasn’t pleasant in the least.
A lot of other people we knew were there that weekend, including Andrew, Debby, Riley, Rong, and Adam. Kevin and Lindsay also came to Tahoe, but they were staying in the casino and not on the slopes. After the skiing we had dinner at Capisce? and it was pretty tasty. Then we played a few rounds of Codenames and a lot of the triple wheel slot machine. It was a good time all around. I relaxed a lot on Sunday and got caught up with work. I also got some more shelves for our kitchen. I really enjoyed having the day to myself.
I really liked this book. It had a lot less angst than the previous two. There was also a lot of resolution to the stories, as opposed to open endedness from the first two in the series. There was a bit of a vague ending with the final bad guy, but it might be more clear for me exactly what was going on if I were to re-read it a time or two. I’m not going to write more as to not spoil it.
Steph and I were joined by Irene, Tina, and Jeremy for a nice paint nite. I got a mixed coffee drink, and decided to go way off from the guide once the background was done. I really liked how the kitties turned out and bonus points if anyone knows who the person is in my painting.
Stephanie and I joined her parents for dinner on Monday in San Carlos. The San Carlos area is really nice, and I enjoyed the dinner. We went to the French restaurant, Cuisinett. The food and service were fantastic. I got the duck salad, which was made perfectly. I really enjoy a well cooked duck, and the salad was very fresh tasting.
I really enjoyed the movie. It was a stupid movie, with tons of cliches, and a very predictable plot. It also made fun of itself the entire time. I highly recommend seeing it in a theater.
We took Valentines weekend in Las Vegas with a lot of friends. This was originally planned as just a friends trip, but it ended up turning into a bachelor/bachelorette party.
The flight there was delayed by 4.5 hours. This was due to the fasten seatbelt sign not working, which they didn’t fix. Instead they just said, “we’re going flying anyway, and you just can’t get up during the flight.” We made it there just barely in time to go to the spa. Steph was a little late to her massage, but not too bad. We didn’t have time beforehand to check in, so we did that after and went to dinner after a short nap.
Dinner was at Bar Masa and the food was pretty good, but no dish really stood out as fantastic. It was a pretty massive group of close to 30 people, and we all had a good bit of sake. The night progressed up to the suite, where four guys dressed as teenage mutant ninja turtles came up, and we played a lot of codenames. Steph was sleepy since we had to get up early so she left around 1am, and I stayed until about 3am since I had slept on the flight.
The next day we went to brunch at Bardot, where Steph got the largest French toast I’ve ever seen.
We then went up to George’s room and played some more Codenames with Tom and Irene. I really enjoyed spending time with them, and will have to have them over some time. We then went to a nice dinner at Milo, followed by some gambling at Ellis Island. They were giving out $10 in free slots play, which was interesting. It took a while for everyone to figure it out, but they did. Debby was the one who enjoyed it the most by far, as you can see in the poorly shot video below (Sorry for portrait).
After a 4.5 hour delay on the way in it was annoying to have a 4.5 hour delay on the way out, which included a long wait on the runway because one of the AC units was broken, but they decided “we’re going to fly anyway.” Not sure how I’m feeling about Jet Blue after this trip.
I played a game I hadn’t before at games night with Brian, Tina, and Adam. Bios was an interesting game, with many different facets. The parts we were in control of were really fun, but the random events could completely decimate a player. There were points when a winning player would be taken completely off the board by an event. This made it very frustrating to play. The building up of the species was a lot of fun, and it worked really really well.
Steph and I joined George, Lindsay, Adam, Debby, and Andrew at Kevin’s Parents’ house. It was a really amazing dinner with some tasty dumplings. By some dumplings I mean hundreds of dumplings. Steph, Lindsay, and Kevin bet against me in the ‘how many dumplings will Andrew eat; contest. I took the low end at 1-17, with Andrew coming in at 10.5. We also got a lot of the red envelopes for Kevin and stuffed them with all sorts of money, and a lot of mtg cards. It was hilarious to see him walking up the stairs getting red envelopes rained on him. The video is pretty bad but it gets the point across:
After dinner we went to see Kung Fu Panda 3 as a group, and it was entertaining. I’d have to say it was better than I’d expected and pretty good for the third in a series.
Steph, Kevin, Lindsay, and I went to Manresa for a nice dinner. It was amazingly delicious. We took Kevin and Lindsay as a thank you for Lindsay showing us around India. Here are the courses that Steph had, mine were a bit different since Steph was eating the vegetarian option.
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