Highlights from the trip: July 6

[cjsmith]

Saw my first $1100+ shirt. I now do not remember the shirt itself at all. Shock, I suppose.

There are no fat people in Beaver Creek, Colorado. Well, ok, some people MIGHT be a little soft around the edges, MAYBE. Coming from the Bay Area it was stunningly weird. Where did they hide everyone else?

As best I can tell I am the first person in Beaver Creek ever with a limp. I drew stares.

Tapered pants suck because they are difficult to hem. With 30 minutes to the rehearsal dinner I sat there realizing I could only tack the things at the seam lines. Of course I ripped them when I stepped into them. Oh well.

Quote from my dad, about my sewing kit: "How'd you get all that stuff on the plane?" I reminded him that I knew the pilot personally. ;-)

Rehearsal dinner rained out! Mad scramble indoors was handled beautifully by the hotel staff.

Tried to imagine how much alcohol a wedding consumes. The actual event hadn't even started yet and wow could we ever drink.

If you sit downwind from the bonfire your clothing WILL still smell in the morning.

Comments

[hnybny.livejournal.com]

The little shopping area in Beaver Creek has radiant heated sidewalks which are pretty damn cool come winter.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. I bet that's fiendishly expensive to run. No wonder the stores there have to charge $1100 for a shirt ;-)

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

$1100?!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

No kidding. The cashmere was only $650 or so, so now I'm really curious what the other thing really was. I don't remember a bit of it.

[dcart.livejournal.com]

Having still relatively recently moved to the bay area, I wonder where they hide all the fat people. I pretty much constantly feel like I've got a spotlight on me and sign that says "FAT GUY" flashing overhead.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. I'd ask "where?" but my social circle is scattered all over the area so that wouldn't help. I guess it's all in who you run into.

I guessed I was in the pudgier half of the shape distribution in Beaver Creek. Pic of me.

[firecat]

They're in the Midwest.

I live in a Bay Area town that has the distinction of having one of the lowest average BMIs in California. And that's even though I'm probably singlehandedly bringing that average up a few points.