Monday Jan 7th I was up
early and drove to the Teton village for some snowboarding at Jackson Hole. This
is defiantly the coolest mountain I have ever been on. You first take the tram all
the way to the top. You go up and over several cliffs with open rock faces. The
weather all the way at the top was pretty brutal. Very windy with low
visibility. One really crappy thing was that I forgot my camera, so no
pictures. This is probably the most dangerous mountain I’ve been on too, but it
was a lot of fun with tons of different runs. The crappy weather slowly crept
down the mountain and I decided to leave around 3:00. I spent the rest of the
night driving. I didn’t have anything planed from Jackson to Seattle, and I was
really looking forward to getting out of the cold. So I drove until I was about
4 hours from my friend’s house.
Tuesday
I made to my friend Brians apartment. It’s always great to see old friends. He lives
with some of the same people as 2 years ago. Brian took off work early and his
girlfriend Delaney made a great dinner. It was great have a home cooked meal,
it tasted amazing after a week of frozen meals. That night we just watched a
movie.
Wednesday
I got a few things done then met Brian at work for lunch. He works at Microsoft
I know he does some things with X-box but he really can’t go into too much
detail about it. He showed me around the place and we ate in the commons. Microsoft
is pretty much set up like a small community. They have stores, banks, food,
activities, all right there. After lunch I drove over to Orvis to get some
fishing info. Again I got made fun of for not fly fishing, but they had some
great advice. There isn’t much for fishing now and they said to talk the Orvis
in Portland. But I still planed on trying one lake they suggested. I pretty
much just hung out around there apartment the rest of the night.
Thursday
I made some more food for the road. Once Brian got home from work we went over
to his friend’s house. They all get together and play the board game risk every
once in a while. I knew most of the people from last time I was here but there
were some new people too.
Friday morning
I tried my luck at fishing. The guys from Orvis sent me to Pine Lake. The lake
was just stocked with some decent size trout. I fished for a few hours but it
was really cold and I saw no signs of life. Other then the ducks that would
follow me around and quack at me for food. So I called it quits and headed
back. Brian heard of a cool bar that he hasn’t been to so we all checked it
out. It was called the unicorn. It was a very interesting bar. There were tons
of mounted animal heads all over the pink walls. Just about all the animals
were from Africa. They had a bunch of crazy looking art too. They had a game
room with pinball machines and some old school arcades. We all played around
for awhile and had a really good time. I think it was around 12 we left and
went back to the house we played risk at. His friends here were having a small
party. We played some drinking games and joked around for awhile before calling
it a night.
One of Brian’s
friends, Jeremy lives in a house with his brother and a few friends. I hung out
with him a bit the first time I was here, so I wanted catch up. I went over to
his house for the packer game. Which was pathetic to watch. Jeremy had some
other plans for the night but I hung out with his brother and other roommates. They
were all in a fraternity together so they knew of a few things going on. We went
to a party where between the 4 of us we finished off a 1.75 of vodka in about
45 minutes. Then we got a few cabs and some people from the party came with to
the bars. Before go into the bar we stopped at the gas stations and slammed
some four locos. We ran into a few people they knew and went to a few bars
before getting a cab back to their house.
Sunday was
a do nothing day for me. I think I watched about 20 episodes of parks and rec,
which I recommend to everyone.
Today I
packed everything up and headed out. It’s always sad to go, but it was great to
see everyone and I was very grateful for the couch space. Then I drove to Olympic
National Park. I went to the visitor center and got a few things planed out. I had
time for a hike down to “lake” Mills. It used to be a lake but they just busted
2 dams so it’s not a lake. A really cool area. Huge moss covered trees are
everywhere. A large section of the park is close off for the dam
deconstruction. You can tell this was done very recently.
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