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So I know it's the middle of March, but we're going to talk about ski season because

it's important. I mean, it's a ritual and rituals, especially this year, were important.

For me, I know our family, it got us to the winner. The winners here are really dark in Seattle,

and if it weren't for skiing, I think we might have gone bonkers with just kind of being on

a full lockdown, but our stay was pretty tight. I just remember when it first started snowing,

I remember just that buzz and then it started snowing kind of for real, and then it started

snowing for real, for real in February. I would say we took about the biggest advantage of it

as possible. I took it as a good sign that I waxed more skis and more snowboards this year,

and I changed the batteries in our beacons because we used them enough that they went down. That was

a good sign too. We totally fully maximize to the best of our ability nights at the resort, parked

in our trailer. It's just celebrating, you know, the boys getting older, being a part of that,

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