Monday, December 8, 2008

What's in your yard?

As many of you know, I live in a really big house with 6 other people. One of them decided a couple weeks ago that they were going to throw a snow party in our yard. After a little bit of planning, the big day came. When the Swiss party....they party!
We haven't had a ton of snow yet over here, so they decided to go get some from the local ice arena. 12 truck loads later, we had a yard full of snow. A steep ramp was built along with a couple of jumps and rails. The party soon began and we had snowboarders and skiers coming out to partake in the fun. When you put that together with great food, beer, wine and an afterparty inside with duel karaoke...it amounts to a very entertaining evening. And no, I did not do any snowboard or ski jumping.......that's just a disaster waiting to happen...a little too hazardous to my health, perhaps.

Here are some pics:



A view of the ramp

















A view from the ramp













A view from the rail














A view of the jumps





As usual, I took a couple short videos to give you an idea