Morris Family Ski Vacation

On our last day of our fantastic Christmas ski vacation I thought I would post some pictures. We had a really great time - I love snowboarding! Moreass was a great teacher as well as Susie-Q green run. The chairlift is still a bit of a struggle though (getting off it I mean) but it's still troublesome for Mark seeing as he fell on my board getting off the chair and earned himself 5 stitches and a trip to the Big White hospital. He even got a snowboard ride as Sue (who's Ski Patrol ) was with us and had to call in the 40 (injury). What's hilarious is that she had been boarding with us in her uniform and I had been joking that I was going to be a 40 all day and then Mark ends up getting stitches. He had the privelage though of pushing me down 400 times on my first day of snowboarding so that I could figure out how to get off my ass by myself (I still can't - I just flip over and get up on my toe edge and turn around). Christmas has been great and I can now turn from heel edge to toe edge and snowboard relatively comfortably down a green run. Sue scored us a tree (I don't know how she did that and I don't think I should ask) and we had a nice Christmas morning together with Jim, a guy that my sister brought home from the bar on Christmas eve - she's classy. Jim was great though and an excellent addition to Christmas morning. All in all this was a great winter vacation and a good way to shake off my year of clerkship.

This is my sister-in-law Sue in her fantastic Ski Patrol gear. She looks like a real professional doesn't she?

This is the view from the living room of our chalet. Life is tough.

Our Charlie Brown Christmas tree. Sue is standing there with her house-mate Frith from New Zealand.

We look like the real deal here. This is after my very first chair lift ride with a snowboard where I boarded right down without falling. The subsequent rides were not as successful.


This is from one of those subsequent rides. Don't worry Mark, scars are sexy.
Here we all are after a night at Snowshoe Sam's. My sister is a regular at this Apres Ski watering hole. This is Mark, Chet (Chris from Chetwynn - he's Sue's other housemate), me and Keith after a night of beer chugging contests, punching bag video games, lighting Sambuca shots on fire and creating sparks with cinnamon and Chet completing my dare and going up to
sing "New Orleans is Sinking" with the live band. He's awesome. What a great vacation.