I’ve been playing a bunch of tennis these past few months using some Volkl DNX 9 racquets that my dad bought. They’re fine but the handle was too small for me and I thought it’d be cool to try out a new racquet so I bought one. The Babolat AeroPro Drive to be exact.

This is actually the older model of the new AeroPro Drive Cortex. Rather than paying $185 for the newer version, I settled for the older one for $125 from Tennis Warehouse and had it strung with Prince Synthetic Gut Duraflex 16 gauge. I’m kind of a noob at tennis so I did some research making sure the reviews were awesome before I bought ‘em.

It arrived earlier today (8/6/09) and went out to play with it with Georo, the same guy that is in my shitty snowboarding videos, and who also got a new racquet today. Anyway, the AeroPro Drive is nice. The larger handle is definitely better. It feels stiffer than the DNX 9’s I was using, not sure if that’s good or bad. Ok, I’ll shut up now and put some more pictures up.

I didn’t plug it in to test it yet. But even if it didn’t work, it would still be the coolest thing ever. And Juno wasn’t that good.

Day One: Clear skies, loose granular.

We left early Friday morning after staying up the previous night playing Gunbound (we were bored, really really bored). A lot of people went: my mom, dad, Georo, Hannan, Quentin, Brian, Clifford, Kevin, Alpha and me. David was supposed to come but he was a little girl and stayed home. It was gonna be a long drive so we brought Tae Guk Gi with us. Ended up not watching it.There was a really nice sunrise on the way there. Got a couple of pictures of it. It was a pretty boring ride so the guys fell asleep.

We finally got to the mountain. The snow was okay, at least it wasn’t ice. Hannan has never gone snowboarding so on his first time off the chairlift, he did a face plant. It was pretty funny. I made a few runs and then we got stuck on the lift! We must’ve been there for at least 30 minutes.

Me and Georo did a couple runs at the upper mountain and that was the end of day one. I was pretty tired ‘cause it’s been a while since I last went snowboarding.

Day Two: Rain and Fog, Wet Snow.

The day started out kinda crappy. We woke up to rain so we decided to wait till it stopped to go up to the mountain. The snow got all wet but it wasn’t that bad. But the sky was FREAKING FOGGY.

I recorded Georo going down on the last run. He tried to hit a crap load of jumps but fell on nearly all of them. Turn the volume down, all you’re gonna hear is wind.

Day Three: Cloudy skies, slush.

The weather suddenly got a lot warmer on the third day, around the 40’s and 50’s. It caused a lot of the snow to melt and it formed puddles of slush and water everywhere making everyone get wet.

Some funny stuff happened today too. According to Hannan, Quentin got anal raped. Hahahaha.

I recorded Georo again but in the middle of it I fall cause I was trying to ride switch. Yeah, that wasn’t fun.

Then Georo recorded me, I fell again cause there was an unexpected pile snow there. Georo doesn’t know how to hold a camera.

And here’s a video of Hannan heelsliding his way down the mountain. Haha.

Day Four: Clear Skies, Ice Ice Ice.

The fourth day was so bad. The temperature got colder and the water and slush from the previous day froze and turned into ice. To add onto that, the edges on my board were super dull. I was slipping and sliding everywhere. Ice SUCKS. At least the temperature was cold enough for them to make snow but it still wasn’t enough to cover the ICEEEEEE.

Quentin got hurt again. This time he hurt his neck and had to be brought down by one of those sled things. I didn’t get to see it, wished I got it on video.

Overall, it was a pretty fun trip. The conditions weren’t as nice as I wanted them to be but its okay cause I finally learned to ride switch. Hopefully, we’ll get to go to somewhere more awesome next time like Vermont or maybe even Colorado or Utah.

I need new boots.

It looks like a PENIS!

I thought It would be funny to put Jason on it. Just look at his face! What a douche.

I still haven’t eaten the penis-shaped chicken tender ’cause it seems kind of awkward. It stuck it in the fridge and now its just sitting there. Maybe someday someone will open it and eat it, not paying attention to the shape of it, and we’ll all laugh at him. Penis-eater.

So here’s Chloe.

And a video:

I don’t know how Cliff got my mom to get the dog. My mom used to always complain about how they’re such a hassle. They shed, shit and piss everywhere. But I guess its kind of cool having one around.

Then I found Chrome bags. Man, they are so awesome. They look pretty awesome and they have this super cool seatbelt strap thing. I did some research and found out they are pretty much indestructible. One thing I was worried about was size cause all the pics on the site made the bag look HUGE. But whatever, I ordered it anyway. I got the smallest size, cause I didn’t want it to be too big.

After about a week it came. And here it is. Looks pretty awesome. Got the Red/black stripe one cause red is awesome and so is black. Check out that SUPER COOL seatbelt buckle! The strap is also really comfortable and easily adjustable.

One problem though. ITS TOO FREAKING SMALL! I put my laptop, laptop charger, a couple magazines and a chemistry workbook from sophomore year of high school that I found in the bag and it barely fit. The bag looks like its gonna explode.

I emailed Chrome. I’m gonna exchange it for the next size up. Hopefully it will be the right size. Shipping is expensive!

I hate it when I get hyped up for something I ordered online and when it finally gets here it turns out not how I expected. Sigh.