500 and snowboarding...where do i sign up?

so monumentous occasion last night.... i finally cracked and taught a select group of the morris clan how to play 500!! yes - it was a successful mission and i can now report back that 500 is officially on the ballot of games that we play! (and there are a lot of them!) even this evening over apres ski beers shar said 'that game was fun iwant to play it again' and then everyone wanted to so we had a 'rock off' ( rock paper scissors comp) to determine who gets to play. im like the lord of 500 so i automatically got a spot:) haha
it didnt quite get as gritty as it can but just give it time is what i say- already people are makiing the standard excuse ' ughhh if only i had played THAT card instead then we would have got it!!" yeah- you will never learn! and then someone said 'oh that was luck that you got that' and i pulled out tim's classic- its not luck- its skill!!! i love playing with newbies!!

back on the slopes today- early morning up and out there by about 8 45am- it was FREEZING! like cannot feel your nose or any of your extremities freezing! but its realy best in the am because the snow is still nice and you dont have like 600 thousand snoboarders coming down from the park on top whizzing by you threatening your life! this am they had all the snow machines blowing ( there has not been snow fall here in several weeks!) and that made it absolutely retarded cold! do we went over to whislter and did a few runs of the lower olympic trail and then ally ad i headed back to swap out our skiis for snowboards! first things first- those boots are SOOO much more comfortable! ski boots suck ass! so with our matching poweder blue boards and our new boots e headed out to meet our instructor- jon from surrey, england! so me al and some bulgarian named mia spent the afternoon learning to snowboard down the bunny slopes! spent a lot of time on my ass but managed to make it down several times without gripping his hands in the death grip! although all three of us got seperately taken out by other skiiers/snowboarders ( allison failing to warn until the girl was litearlly sitting on my head as i was strapping into my bindings!!) she however was taken out by a six year old skiier! so floppy haired jon got us mobiule on the boards and wanted to slap us silly for trying skiing first and not spending the whole week 'boarding'! and i kinda agree-- it was more fun ! so we are headed back up for our last day tomorrow with our snowboards to see how much we can learn in another day!

note- im seriously considering moving here- even for like a year or something. its incredibly gorgeous- in the summer apparently there is tons to do and the weather is incredible! plus everyone here is like 20-30 ( people that work / live around here that arent families i mean) and so international. researching livig costs and jobs, etc...anyone want to join? ;)