Category Archives: Anniversary

shSnowboarding: Day 2 (Sugarbush)

Today is our six-month anniversary of being married! Six more months and we can eat our stale, frozen wedding cake.

Sugarbush was a lot of fun. They had 18″ additional snow there and it was snowing during the entire day.

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We took the Slide Brook Express Quad to Mount Ellen and stayed there most of the day.

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Victoria, Johnny and their friends, Kathleen and the two Mikes, ate breakfast with us at the lodge but then we split up again so Gavin and I could ride the greens.

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Since this mountain is at a higher elevation, even some of the greens could easily been blue at a smaller mountain.

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The boards were great. I have a huge crush on the Feelgood. Both Gavin’s board and mine took a run to get used to. (I’m used to my hand-me-down beginner board that was beginning to fall apart and Gavin was just starting to get used to rental beginner and intermediate boards. These were definitely and upgrade.)

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The snow was coming down pretty steadily so stayed bundled up. We rode Crackerjack and then did Walt’s Trail a bunch of times before breaking for lunch. Gavin and I had stashed our leftovers at the lodge so we ate that pretty quickly and then got back out there again.

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I took some video with my GoPro3 that Gavin got me for Christmas. We headed over around 3:30pm on Northridge Expressway and Mainstream toward the Slidebrook Quad on our way toward the main mountain. We met everyone at the main lodge at the base of the mountain.

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Because of the constant snow during the day (and our lack of four-wheel-drive),) the ride back home in the car was challenging. So Victoria’s friends picked up food for all of us.

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The five of us had spaghetti, meat sauce, asparagus and garlic bread. The garlic was particularly delicious. I’m going to have to make it again like this.

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Three Months In

Gavin and I have been married now for three months; during which, I kind of went on an unintended sabbatical from my blog. There were a few reasons why this happened:
1. There really wasn’t much to write about that was wedding-related, since the wedding had already happened.
2. I needed a mental break from anything that had to do with weddings.
3. We were both exhausted.

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But now it feels as though we’ve settled in a bit. We’ve looked through our wedding photos a hundred times (and made other people sit through that, as well) and sent out thank you cards to a lot of really generous people. I’ve even managed to legally change my name- for most things (several times, in fact.) It finally doesn’t feel weird to call Gavin my husband. The first time I said it out loud was strange- not sure if that’s because it was the first time saying it or because it was to a cab driver. Other than that, I think things are back to normal.