glittyknittykitty

February 23, 2006

Return of the walking wounded...

I'M BAAACK!

Highlands, Aspen, darling! Picture: Scott Firestone

Actually, we got back on the 20th of february, after a rather traumatic journey due to bad weather in Dallas and last call connections. But all 4 travellers and their luggage made it back to their respective homes (almost) in one piece.

For those of you not paying attention previously: Skitten and her entourage have just spent 10 days in Aspen, Colorado, snowboarding.

I say 'almost', because DJ Mikey is now the walking wounded. Last hour of the last day on the slope, and he took a big ol' tumble down a black, resulting in a dislocated and fractured shoulder. The poor bunny is now nursing his broken paw back at Casa Skitten, mainly watching the Winter Olympics, I think. He has some spiffy drugs for the night time, which make him all woozy, but lets me have a whole nights sleep without having to minister to him. Oooh, plus he's had about 50 phone calls from well-wishers and visitors gallor.

And boy. That trip to Aspen Valley Hospital. They were nice, and all, got the shoulder back in lickity split, but lord, the bill! $2500 for the privilege, including a $600, 2 mile amublance ride. The sling cost $27, putting him IN the sling cost $149. At least, according to the bill split that they gave us. I'm holding out for our insurance payback, please, please pay me back! (Yeap, it was me that forked out, to stop him having to washing petri dishes for 5 years).

It was a very good trip, despite that last incident, and I also managed to stay out of the one yarn shop in Aspen, which I ventured into last year, only to leave feeling that I might as well have been a piece of shit on the owners shoe. And anyone that knows me, you KNOW that I generally have a very spunky vision of my place in the world ;). So I boycotted (like that's going to mean anything to them!).

However, Mike's ma, Mel, found a fantastic second-hand clothes shop that had rack after rack of cashmere (jumpers, not yarn), so I bought myself two cashmere jumpers, one black, one teal, for $80 total, to make up for my christmas jumper shrinking incident. Second hand, maybe, but you wouldn't know it. Aspen Op Shops. Gotta love 'em.

Anyway, I'll leave you with a picture of DJ Mikey doing what he does best: