Thursday, January 6, 2011

Whitefish Montana!




Tis the season for lots of skiing. Ever since we met our friends Jeff and Cassandra Rankin at Big Mountain, we knew we'd be back season after season. We normally ski the first week in January. It is the perfect time - just after Xmas, all the crowds are gone. Our little secret. Just us, the snow and Big Mountain. Or so we thought....

I was playing with the panoramic setting on my camera. It isn't perfect but you get the idea.



We were informed by a local that the word is out about the first week in January. It now has become too crowded. When we really should be visiting is the middle 2 weeks in December and the middle 2 weeks in January. Perhaps he was trying to trick us, we will never know. I still say the first week in January is a perfect time to ski Big Mountain. 

The first thing we did when we got to the ski slope was visit Jesus. Yes, I said visit Jesus. You see, they have a statue of JC on the mountain. Each year I take my picture with him. I now (thanks to my coworker Tina) refer to him as "Touchdown Jesus". Apparently this is a common phrase. I wished him a happy belated birthday from my friend Kerry and then gave him a high-five.


I'm "high-fiving" JC. I love this picture.

We had a lot of fun skiing the first day. Well, I had fun but I was really really cold. I'm not as hardy as I used to be, perhaps it is because I'm on the downward slope to 40. I'll be turning 36 this year and I just can't handle the cold like I used to. Brian, on the other hand, is very hardy and loves the snow, and the cold, and all the skiing.

I'm smiling for the camera, but really I'm thinking, "smile dammit! this is for the blog! It doesn't matter that you are freezing!"

Pure skiing bliss.
We ended the first day with a huge plate of nachos. Actually, it was a half order of nachos. They are ginormous!


Here is the afterglow picture, for the nachos at least. These nachos deserve a high-kick and a lunge for sure. Although I was too tired to do either of these maneuvers. 


Now, if you look closely, I mean REALLY inspect the 2nd nacho picture, you will see that there are tomatoes on them. Prepare yourselves: I will now start a tirade about tomatoes. 
  • Tomatoes are disgusting. They are my one and only most hated food. Disgusting.
  • Tomatoes are a "non-food". Case in point: when you read about a particular dish you'd like to order at a restaurant, tomatoes often times do not appear on the menu. But, they show up on your burger. What does this mean? Non-food. Don't exist. Worthless. Disgusting.
  • Tomatoes leave their poison everywhere. Even if you can stomach the thought of picking them off your burger, their leaking juices taint the bun, the lettuce, the burger. You know you can taste it. It doesn't go away. Disgusting
  • I digress, in disgust. 
Tomatoes were not on the description for these nachos. But, I had my tomato scope out and realized this non-food would show up if I didn't specifically exclude them from my order. So, as any normal tomato hater would do, I ordered nachos without tomatoes. 

As we dug deep into nacho goodness we discovered tomatoes on the bottom half of the nachos. This brings up an alarming thought about nachos. What if every plate of restaurant nachos is just someone else's half-eaten plate with a new helping of chips, cheese and nacho goodness on top! Horrifying thought I know.

I made it through the tomato/nacho debacle. I decided not to say anything to the staff at the restaurant because they were so incredibly nice. In fact, everyone at Whitefish was as nice as can be.

Here is another picture of the bar we were in.



All in all we had a great time. We will be back in Whitefish MT before you know it!

2 comments:

  1. You are so dang funny. I thought of you when I saw a tomato-scented candle at Nordstrom last week. I don't like tomatoes either, but I'm also CURIOUS.

    Let me just say, SICK!!! I would honestly rather eat a piece of tomato then smell that again. Jonathon Adler has gone WRONG with this candle. Since I've intrigued you, here is the link if you want to buy a forty dollar candle that smells like... NASTY! http://www.jonathanadler.com/Tomato-Pop-Candle/?cat=423&page=1&initial=&xid=ceda815598664234d0f011a31ba836cd

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  2. Horrifying! I can't believe anyone would ever purchase a tomato scented candle. YUCK!!!

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