so as you all know i spent new year's at fortress (which is a mountain where you can ski and snowboard Fiona..)

anyway, it was SOOOOO FUN! hehehe. john got a concussion though. at first he didn't know where he was, or why, or what day it was, or how he had gotten there although he did still know who he was and who we were, which is good. it was kind of funny though, because he kept asking the two ski patrol guys the same questions over and over and over and over and... in the same order too. "hey, did either of you work at COP?" "no." "man, i must have hit my head really hard." three seconds later, "did either of you work at COP?" "no" "man, i must have hit my head really hard" three seconds later, "did either of you work at COP?" he must have asked them if they worked there at least 150 times. but at least towards the end of his stay in the first aid room he was starting to remember that he'd already asked them before. so then the EMS came and we were all kicked out except for a two because otherwise it would have been wayyy too crowded in there. so the EMS decided that he didn't need to go to the hospital and that he could stay, which was good, because no one really wanted to have to go into banff.

one of the ski patrol guys, Adrien, was reeeeeeeeeealy cute! he was from south africa. his accent was so cute! it sounded almost australian actually. i know one other person who grew up in south africa, but she sounds brittish rather than australian. at any rate, he was very cute. so was the guy who gave me my life ticket, but he was definitely australian. and the guy operating the chair lift was also really cute, and there were just a bunch of cute guys there. unfortunately, the cute ones all worked there and none of the people who were there just to be there were actually any good looking. this is sad and unfortunate because none of the guys that worked there seemed to be staying for new years. or if they did, i didn't see them.

so now i didn't drink any alcohol. instead i drank vanilla coke, which makes me veeeeeery hyper and i act like i'm drunk, except that i'm not and i still have control over myself. anyway, everyone else i was with started drinking their alcohol around 4pm. it was kind of funny, but also kind of annoying because midnight just would not come. it felt like 10 when it was only 5:30, so we had a reeeeeealy long time to wander around and do nothing and be bored. but it was still fun.

the BHD was there, whom i like but don't like (very annoying) and he has a reeeeealy hard time keeping his eleventh finger inside his pants. and i mean a REALLY hard time. i won't go into any detail of the previous things he's done, because he is my friend and i wouldn't want to slander him, but he had definitely been planning on getting laid that night and only didn't because the girl he was going after had a huge fight with her boyfriend (yes, he was going after a taken woman) and so she was in a bad mood and didn't want to. or something like that. i wasn't there at the time. and then later on he was offered money to prostitute himself. yuck. thankfully he turned that down, and did actually manage to spend the night without doing any sort of mattress mambo.

next new year's i think i'm going to have to make sure that someone has wake-up pills, because i was absolutely ready to fall asleep at about 11:30. and then when i was actually trying to go to sleep around 1:30 the BHD kept coming into the room and yelling at all of us who were trying to go to sleep so i didn't actually get to go to sleep until aruond 3 when the BHD finally gave up trying to wake us all. then the next morning i woke up at about 6:30 or 7 or something. i managed to go back to sleep, but then woke up at least two more times before i finally gave up on sleeping and just got up at 9 something or other. then i had hashbrowns for breakfast. yum. and chocolate milk. oh yes.

and all in all it was a rather good night, although laura was getting hit on pretty bad by one guy. he kept saying that she was his new year's eve girl and she was like... hahah... no. so then she left and the guy was like, well, ok then i'm going to go after your friend here then (hawley) and laura freaked out and ran down the hill to where we all were and starting going on about hawley was going to be raped and all that, so we all trooped up there to save her and it turns out that the guy didn't really like hawley, just laura and never even touched hawley. she was quite touched that we would all have gone there to save her though. then all the guys reassured us girls that they would have gone to rescue any of us. which was also very touching.