After work, I went home for a while to take the dog for a walk. Tim and Andrew IMed me to say they were done with work, so I drove to campus to pick them up and we headed over to Marmot Mountain to rent some alpine touring skis for the weekend. When we got into the store, we wandered around looking at skis for a while and eventually someone came to help us out. He was really nice, and he had a wonderful australian cattledog named Alice. The dog was super nice and I fell in love with her immediately. She would lean on you and sit on your feet once she realized that you would pet her. We went over to the rental desk and started trying on ski boots. Tim and I quickly found boots that we liked, and we petted Alice while Andrew tried on every boot in the store. He eventually found boots he liked, and we were fitted for skis. The skis were much longer than we were all used to, and the bindings were interesting because they were designed for alpine touring. You can have the heel locked in for downhill skiing, or loose for touring around the backcountry. The other weird thing is that you have to line up two pins at the toe and then push to become locked in...and its a lot harder to get used to than normal ski bindings. They are really small and light, though, which is a big advantage in backcountry skiing.
After we got our poles, boots, skis, and climbing skins all sorted out, we paid and left. Ben called us around that time, and told us that a lot of people were going out to get dinner. We left the ski equipment at Andrew's place, and then headed over to meet the gang. Tim and I shared a falafel wrap. At 7:40, Tim walked me to Zellerbach Hall, where I met up with Pam, Debbie, and another friend to go to a performance by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. The show had three sections with different themes of dancing. The first had oldies music and fun swirly dancing. The girls had really swirly skirts which was really cool because the skirts swished all around and spun beautifully. The second act was really weird. Pam said it had high pitched weird music that she wished she had never heard. There was a guy in a blue spandex suit with a feather on top of his head. Every time he took a bow, he would jiggle his head so the feather waved all over the place. I didn't like that show very much. I was a little disappointed, but the third show really made up for it. It was a lot of fun! After the show, I headed home and passed out because we had an early morning!
After we got our poles, boots, skis, and climbing skins all sorted out, we paid and left. Ben called us around that time, and told us that a lot of people were going out to get dinner. We left the ski equipment at Andrew's place, and then headed over to meet the gang. Tim and I shared a falafel wrap. At 7:40, Tim walked me to Zellerbach Hall, where I met up with Pam, Debbie, and another friend to go to a performance by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. The show had three sections with different themes of dancing. The first had oldies music and fun swirly dancing. The girls had really swirly skirts which was really cool because the skirts swished all around and spun beautifully. The second act was really weird. Pam said it had high pitched weird music that she wished she had never heard. There was a guy in a blue spandex suit with a feather on top of his head. Every time he took a bow, he would jiggle his head so the feather waved all over the place. I didn't like that show very much. I was a little disappointed, but the third show really made up for it. It was a lot of fun! After the show, I headed home and passed out because we had an early morning!
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