Friday, January 06, 2006
Well . . . .
Well, it has definitely been a while . . .and by a while I mean over a week. Christmas was good. For the last two years, my present for dad has been more fun to open than the present itself was. Two years ago I made a cardboard dog with a rotating tale, put dad's present in the middle and wrapped the dog. Last Christmas I made a duck out of cardboard and k'nex. The wings flapped. This year I was really out of inspiration. I needed something better, than last year, but I just really had no motivation. So, I wrapped mom and dad's presents the boring normal way, then inspiration struck. I made a cardboard house. I put the already wrapped presents(marked one for mom and the other for dad) securely in the bottom of the house. Then I wrapped the house. I addresses the house to dad. Then I put the house in a large gift bag and addressed the bag to mom. On Christmas afternoon when we were opening prezzies, mom opened the bag and had to pass the house to dad. Dad opend the house and had to pass mom her present and open his. It was like a big game of pass the parcel. Except there was no music, everybody got to open a layer and everyone winning got one of the end prizes. Well, maybe it only vaguely resembled pass the parcel. Anyway, good times were had by all.
Deep Freeze 2005 went well, despite the thaw. We had a playable ice surface for a short time, but it quickly deteriorated as people put their skates through the ice followed by their knees, wrists, elbows, chins or noses as they continued to fall headlong onto the ice. Eventually the ice was more pothole than solid ice and the hockey stopped. I got some interesting bruises from GTing after the slushy hil had been packed down and then refrozen. We were getting about 15-20 feet of air on the jump that Kevin and I made out of a sheet of plywood and some 2x4s. Kevin and Ispent a lot of the week not sleeping as we were up in the night flooding the pond in hopes that it would get cold enough to really freeze solid. Anyway, late one night we hatched a plan. . . . a fantastic plan. . . . .to get the girls. The girls had decided to sleep in the largely unheated cabin 2 at queen Kristy's behest. Not being secure in warm rooms in the lodge left them vulnerable. So . . . Kevin and I rolled some large snow balls in front of the door, left a spoon between the snow and the door so they could "dig" out, and then filled in all the holes including the top of the door. The end result was that their door was blocked by an 8 foot tower of snow. Then we text messeged Kristy on her new phone advising them to have fun digging out with the spoon. When we rolled one the the snow boulders in front of the door, it pushed the door open which had not been shut properly. We had to practically slam the door to get it shut, yet the girls didn't wake up. Amazingly, none of the girls had to get up to go to the kaibo's in the night. In the morning, Jenn, decided it was time to get out, and never one to be shy, she backed up, took a run at it and dove right through the wall of snow. Pretty brave considering she had no idea how thick it was. I'll post some pics of the break out as soon as I get them. I'll also a link to some GT crash videos as soon as I figure out how to post videos on google video.
this has turned into a long post and as usual, it is the wee hours of the morning.
ciao
Deep Freeze 2005 went well, despite the thaw. We had a playable ice surface for a short time, but it quickly deteriorated as people put their skates through the ice followed by their knees, wrists, elbows, chins or noses as they continued to fall headlong onto the ice. Eventually the ice was more pothole than solid ice and the hockey stopped. I got some interesting bruises from GTing after the slushy hil had been packed down and then refrozen. We were getting about 15-20 feet of air on the jump that Kevin and I made out of a sheet of plywood and some 2x4s. Kevin and Ispent a lot of the week not sleeping as we were up in the night flooding the pond in hopes that it would get cold enough to really freeze solid. Anyway, late one night we hatched a plan. . . . a fantastic plan. . . . .to get the girls. The girls had decided to sleep in the largely unheated cabin 2 at queen Kristy's behest. Not being secure in warm rooms in the lodge left them vulnerable. So . . . Kevin and I rolled some large snow balls in front of the door, left a spoon between the snow and the door so they could "dig" out, and then filled in all the holes including the top of the door. The end result was that their door was blocked by an 8 foot tower of snow. Then we text messeged Kristy on her new phone advising them to have fun digging out with the spoon. When we rolled one the the snow boulders in front of the door, it pushed the door open which had not been shut properly. We had to practically slam the door to get it shut, yet the girls didn't wake up. Amazingly, none of the girls had to get up to go to the kaibo's in the night. In the morning, Jenn, decided it was time to get out, and never one to be shy, she backed up, took a run at it and dove right through the wall of snow. Pretty brave considering she had no idea how thick it was. I'll post some pics of the break out as soon as I get them. I'll also a link to some GT crash videos as soon as I figure out how to post videos on google video.
this has turned into a long post and as usual, it is the wee hours of the morning.
ciao
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