the past week

So not a lot has been going on in the past week. Eric and I took our little mini-trip to Vail and it was...fun. Like I said before, he won us tickets to see Ben Harper so we got a hotel room for one night and even went a little fancy (although there aren't really any un-fancy options in Vail). We ended up getting there around 3pm but their check-in time isn't until 4 (weird, huh?). So the lady said our room wasn't ready and we could explore the hotel if we wanted. So we walked around for a little while and then Eric casually asked her if she'd just let us know when the room was ready, so she found out it still wasn't ready so she bumped us to another, much better room. We were pretty excited, it had a fireplace and a whole lotta room. We were going to be on the bottom floor, but now we were on the top floor with an awesome view of the chairlift (the hotel had it's own chair lift, how cool is that?). So we hung out there for a few hours and went to their jacuzzi and steam room. Then we headed out to Vail Village to grab some dinner before the show. Now I've got some complaints about the skiing/snowboarding life in general (ie, it's only a sport for RICH white people) but one of the things that bugs me the most is that these places are supposed to be luxurious right? Well we wanted to grab just a regular old dinner, nothing crazy nice. But one of the cheapest spots we could find was still about $25/plate and the food was crap. I feel like just because it's Vail, they're not held up to any kind of standards you know, because it's VAIL. But anyways, we took a 1/4 mile snowy walk over to where the concert was, which had already started (at 7:30). The concert was pretty good, I love Ben Harper, but the crowd definitely left something to be desired. Like I said, it's just a bunch of rich white people and at the show it was mostly just rich white high school/college kids. Who were drinking and being fools. So after the show we headed back to the hotel and hung out in their fireside lounge until we got sleepy and went to bed. The next morning, Eric went skiing and I opted to use the money that skiing would've cost to get a hot stone massage instead. I'd never had a hot stone massage before, it was lovely and I'd recommend it for everyone. So yeah, after that we checked out and headed home. It was a nice, short trip to Vail but I think I'm kinda done with the whole ski scene. I don't really like to ski, personally. I don't like to do things I'm not good at. And I'm not good at skiing. It's especially hard when everyone you go with is super good at skiing and then you're just stuck on bunny hills and greens and they're doing black diamonds. So yeah.
Other than that weekend trip, my life has been pretty much the same this past week. I took the Morgan Stanley job, which I'll be starting on Wednesday of next week. I'm pretty much the opposite of excited about it, but it'll be good to have my own money in my pockets again. And besides, it's only temporary and I can quit whenever I want.
This weekend my friend Ted is visiting from San Jose, CA. It's supposed to be nice and warm but I think those dumb boys are going to waste the nice weather and go skiing instead of something awesome like hiking. Oh well, what's a girl to do? I hope everyone has a great weekend. I'll leave you with some peaceful mountain scenery.