Skiing and Football

It has been a loooooong and eventful day!

The plan was that our friend Mark had $10 vouchers to ski at Schweitzer Mountain. A regular weekend pass is $75. The vouchers had to be used by January 28th and with all our varied, mixed up schedules, today seemed to be the best day to use them.

The only hitch in the plan was that the Seattle Seahawks Football Club was playing the divisional championship contest again the Green Bay Packages. The winner would be going to the Super Thing. Mark wanted to see the game. 

I said that since we are only paying $10.00 for our lift tickets, who cares if we get there, ski until noon and then hit the bar and watch the game.

Another hitch in the plan was that Susan worked the rodeo the previous night and was not terribly excited about getting up at 6 AM on a Sunday. But she is a trooper and didn't want to watch the game all by herself, so she agreed to the plan.

We arrived at the mountain at about 9:30, a little off my planned schedule but no big deal. We had to park in the parking lot at the bottom of the resort. That means you either get on a shuttle bus to the lodge, or put on your skis and ride the Bunny Lift up. We chose the Bunny Lift.

We got in line to purchase our tickets, only to discover that our $10 vouchers were no good on Martin Luther King Weekend. It was in the fine print which nobody bothered to read. 

I neither get a day off for MLK nor am I black, so it is not a holiday that has ever really effected me. Therefore, it didn't occur to me or any of us that there was going to be a problem.

Mark was really apologetic and upset he didn't see the fine print. It was no big deal to Susan and I. Besides, the conditions did not appear to be all that ideal for skiing that day.

So we skied two runs on the Bunny Hill, got in the car and headed for Sandpoint.

We ended up in a wonderful spot called Sweet Lou's. We walked in and got a table. There were about 27 thousand TV's in the place, so watching the game was not going to be a problem. The added bonus was that the place was full and pretty evenly divided between Seahawks and Packers fans.

The Seahawks played perhaps one of their worst games ever for about 56 minutes. They played their luckiest game ever for the last four minutes. AND they played well enough in overtime to walk away with a win. It's the first time in about eight years that a defending Super Bowl Champ returns to the big game.

We ate, drank, yelled at the Hawks, and cheered our faces off until it was over. It was a great day!

The only really bad thing that happened was that there was a prize give away going on during the game and Susan won a Taylor Hicks CD.