big day today, beer tasting last night

We actually got up early-ish today to buy our season passes and hit the slopes for the first time this year. Loveland got about 14 inches in the past few days, so it was nice for our first time out. The sun was shining bright, keeping us warm and the wind was minimal. I did really good today and felt confident. RB wants me to “hit some jumps” this year, so we’ll see. With our pass we actually get 3 free days at Monarch this year, so maybe we’ll do that too.

Giants just beat the Cowboys today – that was unfortunate. Now who am I going to root for?

Yesterday we went to Total Beverage in Westminster to fill up our liquor supplies. We typically spend about $200 each time out there, but this time we spent almost $50 more than that. This is fine with me, as RB picked up the tab this time and now we have enough to drink for at least 6 mths. AND, what’s better – THIS is what our counter top looks like. It was more b/c we bought a lot of individual specialty beers. THEY SELL HITACHINO NEST BEER, and at almost $9 a pop (for a pint & a half) it’s not much of a deal. But I practically screamed when I saw it, so RB got me 2 bottles of it. I drank one last night, in addition to tastes of a few other strange beers.

We decided to hold a beer tasting last night – here’s how they ranked: #1 was Hitachino Nest Beer from Japan (I gave 8.9 pts, RB 8.5), #2 was Odolon Wheat Beer from Ukraine (avg of 7.6 pts), #3 was a Wheat Ale from Russia called Baltika at 6.9 pts, and last was a Lithuanian brew called Lobster Lovers w/an avg of 6.8 pts. We got a few others that we weren’t able to drink last night, and I’m looking forward to sampling those 5 later this week. I know I swore off beer, but it was a contest – I couldn’t let RB drink ALL the good beer we got. In total, I may have had 2 pints.

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