Things of Note - A Snowy New Years Weekend

-Kim = the aweso for cooking for thirteen people, and making good food to boot
-it took me a while to remember how to chop wood and make fires, but damn, call me a lumber jack and a...firebug or something, by the end of it
-Kim also won forty dollars at the casino, though we couldn't make heads or tails of the slots' rules, they might as well have given us a button that says 'you win' or 'you lose'
-lots of people had bruised asses from the ski/snowboard slopes (at least, we hope it was the slopes)
-flip cup is a lot more fun than the other drinking games, half because no one really cares if you drink, and half because it actually takes a modicum of skill of a sort - and yes, twenty-three bottles of champagne were emptied, all except the odd peach flavor which mysteriously disappeared
-snow makes for fun slushy drinks; Early Times whisky does not make for good times drinks, including the bad-idea of snowy trampoline jumping and sticking the entire bottle down someone's pants
-in Pinetop, Darby's Cafe is ok, Johnny Angel's diner is bleh, and don't even go near the bowling alley
-that was the most Mario Bros 3 I'd ever seen played, though we noted that Luigi is really more of a green Mario in that one
-throwing a large rock onto a frozen-over lake doesn't necessarily mean it's safe to walk on, as we found out upon hearing crunchycrackly noises under our feet
-in other news, a snowman was violated