Tuesday after work, Kari and I drove to Denver to visit her brother and go snowboarding. The original plans were for her and I to go snowboarding thursday at Winterpark Mountain, but she hurt her knee walking, so her brother and I went instead. We took a lesson in the morning because it was my first time on a mountain (aside from iowa), and it was Victor's first time ever. Toward the end of the lesson, Vic hit his head and wanted to take a break... I ended up snowboarding the rest of the day by myself... but whatever, it was still fun. I covered a good portion of the mountain and got up to the Mary Jane peak (11,200 feet), w00t!

The bad part of the day was when my digital camera broke... I was really mad. On the way back from the mountain I took it apart and let the pieces dry over the vents on kari's dashboard, but couldn't test it because my batteries were dead (to be continued...)

After we got home, Kari and I went out to eat at La-Fondue. It was Kari and I's first time at a Fondue place. We knew a little about them (i.e. that you dip stuff in a pot, and they're "really fancy so you have to dress super nice" - I wore a black t-shirt and jeans, Kari wore a black poofy gangster vest). Anyway, the meal was so insanely good, it was well worth the $100 that I dropped on it. After appetizers, the meal came with chicken, fillet mignon, sirloin, 2 lobster tails, and shrimp. Desert came with strawberries, apples, bananas, cheesecake, angelfood cake, marshmallows and other stuff to dip into dark chocolate. Harper's mom rules.

On Friday morning (since my NiMH batteries were dead) I took my camera to best buy to see if they'd test it. The wankis got some NiMH batteries off of a charger, tested it, and told me that it was broken. He also assured me that his batteries were charged... this made me really mad, but I needed a camera, so after about an hour and a half I bought the Canon A80 for $430 - really nice camera, though. As soon as I got home, I took my batteries off the charger, stuck them in my camera, and it worked fine. I hate best buy employees, they are all so dumb. ... so I returned the Canon A80.

Saturday night we planned to get dinner and see The Last Samurai. Victor wanted to eat at P.F. Chang's, which is a really nice Chinese restaurant downtown but the wait was an hour and a half, which woulda made us late for our movie. So, instead, we went to a pizza place called Two-Fisted Mario's (They had an award for best late night dining of 2002)! Anyway, the place had really good pizza, weird music, lots of clever stickers, and some big mysterious arched doorway that was covered by a black curtain with a sign above it that read, "Warning: Conceptual Art Ahead." After pizza we went to our movie but got lost because mapquest took us to a block that didn't exist... nor did the movie theater. So we missed the movie... HOWEVER, Kevin came through and found another theater showing the movie at 8:55 at Olde Town in Arvada - Ahr-vah-duh, NOT Ahr-vay-duh. Be careful, you might get reemed if you pronounce this wrong. Anyway, Kevi gave us directions over the phone on how to get there and the movie was awesome as expected.

And today we drove back to Des Moines in really crappy weather...

P.S. - Eddie Vedder Sucks.