We flew back to L. A. then Denver on the 18th of February. It was a long trip (well aprehended by David who hates flying) but the weather was fine and everything went well. We headed towards Crested Butte to visit another kid boat, our sailing friends Amy and Dave (we met them in 2003 in Georgetown, Bahamas). They live in a beautiful ski town far from the beaten track called Crested Butte ( five hours from Denver) and it is a wonderful quiet spot for extreme skiing so we are so excited to see our friends again and ski all together. They are very busy between hockey and skiing (definitely outdoors people who would have loved NZ!). It is fun to ski, hang out and bead (Dionne: Amy is making one of your bead bag, you see, you are famous around the globe!, my Mom in France have the whole bead class doing bead bag now, when they are finished, they will take a picture and e-mail it to you!). A bientot.