Thursday, January 10, 2008 ' 6:35 AM Y
& your soul is all i ever wanted
cont'd
30 December
Last day of skiing! Was super windy at SkiCooper, so Na, Anya and I braved the slopes very few times. Folks were coming from Copper to pick us up but came super late because of the wind blowing all the powdery snow, made it very hazardous driving. Na Anya and I were all pressed against the window waiting. And when we were sitting down and waiting, this little boy came up to us and knocked us on the head one by one! We were like, too stunned to react. hahaha just willingly let ourselves get bopped on the head. Then his brother came and carried him away. I think he was embarassed. We hungry girls got first dibs at our leftover pizza in the car, we returned the ski gear, got our stuff and headed to drop Max off at Frisco. Turns out the highway after Frisco was closed due the sucky weather so we all ended up crashing at Max's rented room there. Talk about fortunate!
31 December
Took the long route back to Denver the next day, meaning we crossed over the mountains again. Lots of pretty scenery.
After that we stoppsed for lunch at this place called the Blue Cow I think. Had a nice meal, onion rings were amazing. Then on for Denver! Passed by an interesting natural stadium on the way, they said it was used by the Indian chiefs for meetings. Cool! Got to Denver, got to the airport and went seperate ways for our flights. I managed to get on an earlier flight to Chicago but the stupid flight got delayed anyways due to bad weather in Chicago. I was nervous all the way that I would miss my connecting flight. Turns out thanks again to bad weather, my connecting flight was delayed!! WALAO.
Delay delay FINALLY got on the plane and inthe plane we declared New Years on Eastern time (Was 11pm there) then taxied out to the runway then...... APPARENTLY THERE WAS A PROBLEM WITH THE LEFT SOMETHING OF THE PLANE SO WE TURNED BACK. OMG! So in the end we all got connecting flights the next day and complimentary hotel for the night as well as meal vouchers. Several chinese people were caught in the same predicament as me and much to my amazement I was able to function as a semi translator for a nice Chinese couple from Shanghai. Scenario: Waiting for shuttle to hotel
Chinese lady: calls me, says are we going to the same hotel? I say let me see your ticket and say yes and say I will call the hotel cz the bus was taking forever. So called then suddenly they waved to me *WAVEEE* and I saw a bus so quickly dropped the call and ran out to discover....it was the wrong bus. Then the husband laughed at his wife and I went to call again. After that we chatted, things like "Wah your chinese so good! Where are you from? Oh MALAYSIA waahh Malaysians so good la, can speak Mandarin, English also can (mind you I am roughly translating it was all in Mandarin) and also wahh you well prepared for this weather ahh (I had my winter coat) and I was like oh i am used to this weather I go to school nearby then must explain all that then FINALLY the bus came. Another young chinese chap thought he was on the same bus as us but apparently not and I had to exclaim "Wrong bus!!" cause he didnt seem to understand the driver? Aiyoh so difficult, finally get to the hotel, jump off and went to check in, then in the process of checking in have to explain credit cards to them and then they dont have credit card so have to ask the personnel there then have to explain to them about the $20 deposit that they would get back (woman: wah thank goodness we have you here! She's very young like early 20s I think) Then I cabut and went to sleep. Called home of course and called nana to say I was in hotel.
1 Jan 2008
Woke up, showered, packed up and went to catch a bus to the airport. Nice bus driver, wished me Happy New Year and was nice to me the whole trip. Well his tone of speaking to me was very nice, made me feel comforted a BIT. (Cause I was missing all of you guys of course!) Then in the airport who should I meet? The same couple again!! HAHAHA talk about fate! Turns out I think their light got cancelled, poor things. Ate a delicious free breakfast of yougurt with berries and granola (It really is amazing) ad bought a magazine where i found the CUTEST BABY PICTURE EVER. Well one of the cutest la. On the flight I was between 2 nice pretty young women, one from SOUTH BELOIT where she teaches and the other from South Carolina who taught strings. Cool! Nice coincidence. FINALLY reached Charlotte, as picked up and happily shipped back to Mooresville.
So ends my adventure in the Colorado rockies and another interesting way to spend the new year. Going back to college this Saturday.
