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Today we did nothing. No honestly, we really did nothing at all – well, that’s true for 2/3rds of us. Ed hit the slopes at the regular time, but Pip and I had decided that today would be another rest day – only our second such day since we’d arrived here at Beaver Creek.

Although I can’t report on what Ed skied during the day, Pip and I watched yet another marathon on TV – this time it was Law & Order: Criminal Intent (we’ve almost exhausted all of the shows we ever watch now). We watched until 12pm, slightly later than our normal time that we would regularly get ready to head out, but today we headed to the shops. We hadn’t had much luck on the shopping front to date (except for a few missed opportunities back in Vegas), but largely so far we’d been looking for specific things. Today we were shopping for some souvenirs and gifts, with mixed success. If anything, we’d certainly bought a few things that would certainly take the airport luggage weight check-in game to a new level.

At about 1:30pm we returned to the hotel to find Ed having lunch down at the base of the mountain, a similar thing to what we were planning. The refrigerator in the room has a terrible tendency to freeze everything. Absolutely everything. Unfortunately that meant that the food we had bought back in Avon a few days ago was largely frozen over – including carrots, ham and so on. We salvaged what we could and whipped up a plate (by “we” I mean Pip) of food, and enjoyed it – yep you guessed it – in front of the TV. (If the sugar-loaded food of the USA wasn’t enough, the TV watching certainly wasn’t helping any waistlines)

The Law & Order marathon of this morning was still going strong, and so we continued our viewing until it finished at 3pm (and switched to an NCIS one). Ed had decided not to return to the slopes, and so joined in the TVathon. Pip caught some shut-eye – obviously there is a limit to the number of episodes that can be watched in a row – before we headed back to the shops at about 5:30pm. A little more shopping, and then another dinner at the Blue Moose finished the action-packed part of our day. After dinner we returned to the hotel – feeling the definite cold of the night – and relaxed, yep, in front of the TV.

As today was so action-packed, there are no real photos (except a couple I took on my phone). Just to keep in the swing of things, I still made a photo mash-up for your enjoyment; check it out if you dare. Tomorrow we are heading back to the slopes, so we should have a few more stories and photos to share then!