Fabia was kind enough to invite us along with her and Greg to a weekend away in Massachusetts. There we stayed with her lovely cousins Gute, Thuy, and their daughter Izabela. Many thanks to them all once again for being such generous hosts, and of course to Gute’s parents for the wonderful Brazillian style home-cooked meals, and for picking us up from the bus stop at 11 PM on Friday night!
On a side note: Gute and Thuy have become my new idols – practically everything in their house is “wired” (or connected wirelessly as the case may be) to their internal network. And best of all, not only do they have an XBox 360, but they’ve got a 60″ TV to play it on. Can you say, “addictive”? My “christmas list” just got a little bit longer!
But anyway, we all got up very early on Saturday morning to participate in one of my other favourite past-times – skiing! Our destination was Okemo mountain in Vermont. It was easily one of the best days of skiing that I’ve ever had – beautiful snow, spring-like conditions, and very short wait times at the lifts. The runs were perfectly graded for our levels of expertise, and for most of the day we did the blue runs together as a group. The mountain was also one of the largest ones that I have skiied on – it took Greg and I about 10 – 15 minutes to ski all the way from top to bottom without stopping, and we were going pretty fast. (Boy were our legs sore after that!)
Unfortunately, we didn’t have a camera with us, so no piccies to show 
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Of course, one day of skiing is never enough, and now that my appetite has been whetted, I’m looking out for other opportunities to indulge again before the season is out. Anyone interested?
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Sounds like a great trip. Vermont is stunning. I’m sure you both were as well, zig-zagging around on your blue slopes! Muahaha! I’m glad there are no reports of broken bones or bear attacks … And one point of advice to Gerrod — wait for the next X-box coming out in Feb. or March! It should be worth it.
What’s this new xbox you speak of? Do you mean a new variation of the Xbox 360? eg. bigger hard disk or hd-dvd drive?
Nope, he means a regular Xbox 360. I think.