The annual winter ball was conveniently held this year at the Computer Museum in Mountain View, just a few blocks away from our apartment. As always we enjoyed hanging out again with Patrick's coworkers and their significant others. This edition of the ball had however a surprise guest, who got everybody's attention. Despite his terrifying look and his sinister red eyes, people were fighting to get closer to him: The mechanical bull!

Lots of things have been said about the powdery slopes of Utah. But still, you only know things to be true after checking them out for yourself, right? Apparently everything was true, and we had a blast on the trails as well as into the trees … oops, I mean in the trees. One thing people usually forget to mention is that the temperature barely goes above 20 F. Here's a tip for you: Use that as an excuse to order a warm apple cider!!Altogether it would have been a great weekend but when you have friends like we do, you're in for something even better. First, you start by playing "Age of Mythology" and the next thing you know it is already 6:30am. Time for a 2 hours nap before going snowshoeing. But since Patrick's birthday was coming up, the snowshoes mysteriously turned into snowmobiles. That's all we needed to keep us bright awake!