Northstar, CA

Monday, January 27, 2014



AM adult lesson with four folks including Fran Mirabella III (old IGN compatriot), Destiny (13 y/o from Texas), and an Irish couple. Got everybody making turns more or less. In the PM I started out with 3 women, but ended up with Paula from Argentina. Sadly at the end of the day I saw young Destiny being carted away by Patrol in a sled (methinks that her uncle pushed her a bit too hard and got her on terrain way above her ability). Comment of the day was when the Irish man (a firefighter) skied into a pole and screamed "Bollocks!" I commented to his wife about how cool that word was, but that I never understood their use of the "C" word. She replied that "they" (her husband and her) didn't use that word. When I countered with "Colin Farrell certainly loves that word, though." She got a look of distaste on her face (the kind of look you get when you're about to puke) and retorted "You Yanks can have him."

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