a long december....

I have to say that I'm ready for 2009 to be over. It's been a busy year and I'm hoping to slow down a bit more in 2010.... but with an October event and the craziness of Telluride I think a slow 2010 is just a dream.

I've been trying to spend more time cooking and baking. I've been playing with a few gluten free flour blends and perfecting my street noodles. In case you didn't know I also am a gluten free blogger.... but have fallen even further behind there!

Dave's been busy snowmaking and starts grooming next week when the roll up the snowmaking hose for the season. He'll be working nights all winter so Chaos will have a buddy to nap with during the day.

Telluride hosted the 2009 Snowboardcross World Cup event and we cheered on two Sugarloafer. Seth Wescott won the gold in the 2006 Olympics and we've cheered him on in a few events. This year Alex Tuttle joined in on the fun... he even stayed here at campchaos and managed to make it through Dave's entire collection of the Simpson's.  Alex is 19 and graduated from CVA last year and this was his first world cup race. There are 60+ racers that come to town for this and they only have 32 spots for race day so they do a qualifier the day prior. SBX is a lot of fun to watch as it's 4 races flying down the course at one time and egging each other on. The qualifiers are a grueling process where each races gets two solo runs down the course and the top 32 times advance to the next day's races.  Alex had a great showing and hit 43rd (did I mention this is his first World Cup event.... and not his last!) and Seth hit 2nd and went on to the next day. The bonus for us was getting to watch the finals with Alex and knowing that when he said Seth was solid that things were ok and when he got nervous there was a good reason!  This is a race that is helping to secure spots at the 2010 olympics. It was on NBC last week and that was Dave and I rocking the Go Wescott Banner.... you could safely call us his biggest Telluride fans.

Work has been insane and I'm on day 11 straight.... 'nuff said. Plus my crackberry is on the fritz... it thinks I want to take photos instead of making calls or sending emails. At one point it wouldn't even let me pick up phone calls. I ordered a new phone and as soon as I did the old crackberry started working again.... arugh. I also changed my mind and am going to move away from the crackberry and find a new model..... I've been asking around and everyone seems to love the droid.... thank goodness for a 30 day return policy. This is the hard part about working too much and not having a good cell phone store around us.