Sun Valley Ski Trip Recap & Awards

Nominator	Award or Quote
Anish	Most Hardcore Skiier: Michael for skiing while still sick
Anish	Best chefs - Vernon&Livvy
Anish	Good effort Award on Taboo - Chris
Anish	World Hairiest Man - Rajesh (I was forced to see his bare chest)
Anish	Organizer of the Year - Howie
Chris	Ying for "shortest amount of time that a person who was told by a doctor to use crutches actually used them"
Chris	Best wipeout - Mindi's brother for falling off the chair
Chris	John Kerry - Most famous guy who decided to join our ski trip
Chris	Michael - Most frequent use of the hot-tub
Chris	Chris, Evan, Howard, and Anish - Maximum number of guys that can shower at the same time without dropping the soap
Chris	Most unnecessarily complicated game - tied between the computer-generated version of Texas Hold' Em and Acorns
Chris	Most creative Taboo clues - Mike (Grateful Dead Song - "___ of Gray", etc.)
Chris	Most painful facial expressions while giving taboo clues - Rajesh
Chris	Hairiest arms - Rajesh
Chris	Cool guy award for waiting with my wife for the ski patrol to come - Rajesh
Chris	Most number of mornings and evenings wearing the same pajamas - Livvy
Chris	Worst hat-head - Holly
Chris	Best cook - Vernon
Chris	Longest time to come up with such an easy Taboo clue - Howard ("off")
Chris	Person who got screwed over the most times by the bullshit rules of taboo - me
Chris	Best trip organizer for the 10th year in a row - Howard
Evan	Best "Haul Ass" -- Michael, Livvy, Howard, Evan --- up and down Warm Springs to end the day (twice on Fri., thrice on Sat.)
Evan	Best Talking Alarm That Wouldn't Turn Off --- "Burglary, Burglary...Leave Now...Burglary, Burglary, Leave Now..."
Evan	First-timer Effort Award in Taboo -- Ying, Holly, Peter Favorite Taboo 'clue' -- "Oh, Shit," says Anish after saying a buzzword.
Evan	Missed opportunity to use the word pussy in Taboo --- Anish, to describe beaver. He had used little pussy on another word (kitten) earlier.
Evan	Most anal attempt to create a "Professional" Game of Texas Holdem for Novices --- Howard with the on-screen viewer and Mindy with trying to move everyone around into starting positions.
Evan	Most distracted by Desperate Wives TV show during a ping-pong match - Rajesh
Evan	Best Sweep - Mike winning at ping-pong, Apples to Apples, Chronology and then Texas Holdem
Evan	Most unsatisfyingly tiring trip outside Sun Valley --- Howard, Anish, Rajesh, Evan snowshoeing near Galena Lodge.
Evan	Most Effort for a Picture -- Howard, Rajesh, Evan trying to climb atop a wooden sign on Snowshoes.
Evan	Best Race --- Howard, Evan, Rajesh, Anish in snowshoes (finished in that order).
Evan	Best Football Tackle -- Rajesh on Anish into a bed of snow in Showshoes.
Evan	Best Fishing "Tackle" -- Livvy stuffing her plate with tasty fish for a $14 all-you-can-stuff-on-one-plate salad at Snoeshoe Lodge.
Evan	Best Makeshift Bed --- Howard will always win this award. This time, it was four grossly unstable chairs by the dining table.
Evan	Missed Celebrity in Concert -- Bruce Willis. That's all right...everyone said he sucked anyway.
Evan	Most Considerate Person -- Michael Chiang moving upstairs to the couch to avoid getting us sick downstairs.
Evan	Best Ad-Hoc Cooking TEAM --- Vernon may be the Hotel School Grad, but Livvy did much of the cooking! Hats off to both of them on a superb meal.
Evan	Most Effective Medicine --- Double-dosago of NyQuil knocked Michael out for the night.
Evan	Worse Showing of Women in the Hot Tub --- ZERO. This may be how the Turkish Prison rumors got started.
Evan	Best Lightshow --- Ketchum is suddenly lit up all at once after the blackout.
Evan	Best Brunch in Sun Valley --- The Kneadery (recommended on Rachel's Ray's $40/day)
Evan	Most Overwhelmed Waitress --- Our waitress at Roosevelt on Saturday night, who agreed to create separate checks and left out a bunch of items.
Evan	Biggest $4 "ice cream" tub --- Howard
Holly	Peter - In an AS accent - "The bridge is out!"
Holly	Peter - In an AS accent - "The lights are out!"
Holly	Anish trying to describe what a "Beaver" Den is
Holly	Rajesh not scratching his neck for "Necklace"
Holly	Anish and Howard cuddling in the hot tub (editorial note: cuddling?!?)
Holly	Anish and Rajesh 'coupling' (sitting together) at every dinner outing
Holly	Coolest star sighting: Arnold Schwarzenneger at the Kneadery
Holly	The electricity going out + Peter setting off the "Burglar alert, burgler alert!"
Holly	Michael creating a fire before the electricity went out.
Holly	No visibility boarding on Sunday!
Holly	We had Idaho potato skins, french fries, mashed potatoes, and hashbrowns in the Potato state
Holly	Weirdest tasting bar: the Idaho Spud Bar https://www.idahospud.com/spudclub.htm
Holly	Nearly killed by tire falling off a truck coming the opposite direction on 75: Holly & Peter
Howard	Best Lodge To Date: Willis View Home
Howard	Best Bathroom: Master BR @ Willis View Home
Howard	Idaho T-shirt: U da ho, Idaho
Howard	Most dangerous projectile: Howard's right ski flying down the mountain after Vinnie snows and takes Howard out with him
Howard	Best Jumps: 14 consecutive jumps around the snow making blowers on Lower Warm Springs Run
Howard	Crappiest Taxi Service: Washington Flyer Taxi
Howard	Best duck: Sawtooth Club
Howard	Best ping pong player on trip: Mike (actually best all-around game player too)
Howard	Gayest shower moment(s): 4 guys showering in the super shower but hey, there were 4 nozzles and we did NOT lather each other up!
Howard	Best Lodge: River Run Day Lodge
Howard	Best Star Sightings Resort to Date: Sun Valley
Howard	Most ballsy car move: Michael for driving the SUV past the "No Vehicles Beyond this Point" sign to pick everyone up
Howard	Most likely to get slapped by a stranger: Anish for the comments on the "hottie" taking our photo. Luckily it was just beyond earshot…
Howard	Best Boggle player: Heathermarie
Howard	Most Patient in watching bits of a movie at a time: Michael for True Lies
Howard	Coolest feature about the super shower other than the overhead shower and 3 additional jets: steam room capability!
Howard	Most useless police force: Sun Valley PD who will not answer a "burglary" but will issue parking tickets and pull people aside for going 36 in a 25
Howard	Most useless road signs and pain in the ass parking situation: Warm Springs Base area
Howard	Most frequent use of female body parts in taboo clues: Anish for describing "kitten" and "beaver"
Howard	Most animated use of a male body part in a taboo answer: Mindi for shouting out 'Penis'
Howard	Most nimble while climbing poles with snowshoes on: Rajesh
Howard	Closest imitation of 4 special olympic runners: Howard, Anish, Rajesh and Evan for running with their snowshoes on
Howard	Best Chef: Vernon - good to see that Hotel school education in action!
Howard	Most hardcore: David and Sanae for driving all the way from SLC to have dinner with us
Howard	Last person I'd call to come fix my alarm system: Peter
Howard	Heaviest sleeper: Michael for sleeping through a lot of yelling and laughter
Howard	Most unfortunate incident: Ying falling on the last run of the day. Hope your knee gets better!
Howard	Most likely to slam your Inbox with over 50+ MB of full-sized photos within 5 minutes: Holly (I had to gripe since I was on dial-up at the client site)
Howard	Most cool looking but dysfunctional chairs: The dining room chairs around the table kept on tipping over (without Mindi's brother touching them either)
Mike	Rajesh, with the Cheesecake controversy
Mike	Peter, unadvertantly making more trouble by setting of the alarm and grounding the Mini Van
Mike	Michael Chiang and his unhealthly obesssion with Ahnold and "True Lies" while the real thing was roaming the streets of Kethchum
Mike	Mike T, Howard, Anish & Evan's Turkish Prison moment in the shower

Rajesh	"What's so Creme Brule about this Creme brule Cheesecake" asked to the waitress by Rajesh @Sawtooth Club since Anish said it tasted like a regular cheesecake.
Rajesh	"Sometimes you take it out and sometimes you keep it in" describing Tonsils by Rajesh during Taboo and answer shouted out by Mindy was PENIS!!
Rajesh	Biggest revelation for me: Ticketmaster gets hardly any kickbacks from the high surcharges added on to tickets. It's the entertainers that get the kickbacks! - As told by Heather Marie.
Rajesh	Fastest Skier: Howard
Rajesh	Best Foul Mouth: Chris
Rajesh	Most Graceful in a leg brace: Ying
Rajesh	Person to get winded when playing Ping Pong: Anish
Rajesh	Gayest foursome: Anish, Howard, Evan, Mike T - showering together in the fancy shower
Rajesh	Best Chef: Vernon
Rajesh	Person that takes the longest time to watch a movie: Michael Chiang - i.e. True Lies