Warren Miller in and of itself denotes a tone of reverence to be used when referring to it. I suppose you could liken it to a spiritual experience, I know I'm a little sacreligious, but that is just how awesome Warren Miller is.
I didn't work that day...which was nice because I probably would have been crying on the floor about wanting to go if I had been working. So Mark and I hung out for a little while, watching funny Youtube videos etc. and then Mark's sister and brother-in-law, Amy and Jake (remember the buttjuice?) came up to join us.
We went to Village Inn which was pretty fun, especially because we got the kiddie menus and had races to see who could complete the activities the fastest. Pretty sure Amy won every time. I was a close second on the word search though.
Jake is colorblind, so Amy keep giving him brown crayons and asking them what color they were. Then she threw in a red one and he thought it was green. It was kind of funny to watch. And we colored on the kiddie menus. Yup, four fully grown adults playing with the kiddie menus. That's the way to do it.
Then we all ordered frenchies...which is a french skillet...this is apparently Warren Miller tradition that I have now been introduced to. It would have been better without the peppers and onions (I like onion rings but not onions....go figure), but other than that I loved it. Plus I had a really fun time.
I also learned that even though you watched someone mistake the lights for the windshield wipers and made fun of them for it, doesn't mean you are immune from that same mistake. I didn't make it...but others did.
We arrived very early to the Kent Concert Hall...so what do you do? Well you sit in a circle and play nertz in line. Yup, we did that. People just stood around watching us...it was my first time playing and I sucked it up. I'm going to blame that on Mark's lack of explaining skills. I'm pretty sure he didn't tell me anything besides how to set up the cards. Then he told me to turn two of them over....when I was supposed to turn all four over. Anyways I was very confused. And Amy won...shocker.
After a good hour or so of card games, we finally got our seats and filled out our slips for the drawings. Jake has never won and he's been going to Warren Miller for about...20 years or something crazy like that. This year he won. He got a pair of socks, some headphones and a boarder kit....he's a skier. He didn't even hear what he had won he just started screaming and ran up excitedly to claim his prize. He was by far the most excited person there.
And of course the movie was awesome, I'm still having dreams about snowboarding...except for the one night I had the really weird dreams after watching the original Casino Royale. By the way that's a weird movie.
Like I said, pretty dang epic. So ready to do it all over again next year.
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