hello, kelseyv.com blog followers! phillip back here as a guest blogger with my dear wife, fellow companion, and my “amazingly uncommon” gal. i am here to wrap things up from our big sky, montana trip and discuss the events and festivities we did during our last day on the slopes. or, should i say off the slopes? 😊
kelsey and i decided, by nature of our bodies being sore and to save a penny or two on lift tickets, to take things a slope and a step back and enjoy our final day resting and relaxing (R&R’ing) around the resort. we started off by sleeping in the cabin and ate the remaining breakfast that was prepared by some of our new friends that we met through kelsey’s work colleague, ben atkinson. we ate scrambled eggs, toasted bagels with peanut butter, and one of our most important breakfast staples: bacon! since the group still had loads of groceries in the cabin, they decided to exhaust the remaining breakfast items, including the massive box of bacon, so there was a lot to go around even after they left the cabin to go hit the slopes and snowmobiles for the day. of course, being the meat aficionado i am, i was thoroughly impressed and excited to bring home the bacon by consuming roughly 8 slices! i would probably guess that about half of those slices were consumed behind kelsey’s back, but hey, a man’s got to eat protein to keep energy and momentum for the relaxing day we were about to face together.
shortly after we ate our lovely breakfast, we sat down at the dining room table with our new friend, Ash. Ash was studying on her laptop and catching up on personal emails while kelsey and i were reviewing our gopro footage we took during days 2 and 3. everyone else either went to hit the slopes or took their day on a snowmobile excursion at yellowstone national park.
for kelsey and me, we decided to hit up one of big sky’s restaurants, the cabin bar & grill, and try out one of their popular entrée items, the elk/bison burger. it was recommended from Jeanie, one of the employees from big sky’s ski and rental shop. kelsey ordered her burger with blue cheese, and i ordered mine with swiss, and we both had fries, of course! we must say that the burger was not as good as we expected it to be. i think i enjoyed it more than kelsey; i thought it tasted like a pretty standard burger, but kelsey’s reaction was that the burger seemed to taste bland and dry. we did, however, enjoy the beautiful scenery on the restaurant’s 2nd floor since it looked out at big sky’s iconic heated 8-seater chairlift, the ramcharger 8.
after lunchtime, we went back to the cabin and relaxed for the remainder of the day. everyone who went skiing came back around dinner time, so we all decided to go down to another big sky restaurant, M.R. Hummers. those who went to yellowstone came back much later around 9pm or so. kelsey and i went to Hummers to meet with Mohit, a friend and old coworker of kelsey’s. he happened to be skiing at big sky for the week, and kelsey and mohit found out that same day that they were within walking distance from some of the most beautiful and biggest skiing that i’ve ever seen. kelsey and i split a Hummers cheese waffle fries that were loaded with bacon, queso bravo, and scallions. they were incredibly good, and i think that kelsey enjoyed them, too.
after catching up with mohit and team (yes, i say “and team” a lot since i work in HR), we walked back to the cabin with our crew and played werewolf again all throughout the night (puns intended here; werewolves could be howling during the night). some folks had to leave the cabin around 3am since they had flights around six or so. we went to bed and departed on a snowy “drive and fly” back to the warmer climate of atlanta a few hours later.
overall, the big sky trip was a “big” hit for us. we enjoyed catching up with ben and some of his closest friends from work, school, and other walks of his life. the crew was friendly, and the weather was perfect. we’ll be back to big sky to ski down some more greens and possibly some blue slopes once we continue to become masters of the ski wedge. 😊
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