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Robert Vasen
Heli-Skiing in Utah
On March 23rd, my dad Gail, my brother Mike, and I went helicopter skiing in Utah. It was a first for all 3 of us and we all agreed that it was our best day of skiing ever. We had clear blue sky, fresh snow, no lift lines, and got to make fresh tracks with every run. We had 6 runs for a total of 12,000 vertical feet of skiing. We also got to ski together with one guide the entire time, even though there were other people using the helicopter with us: we only saw them at the base of the runs where we would wait for the helicopter to take us up for another run. It was run by Park City Powder Cats & Heli-Ski (http://www.pccats.com/helicat.html). Our guide skiing with us was Jon Marshall (http://www.jmarshallphotography.com/)
Photos are at http://spaces.msn.com/grothadventures/Photos/
Moving to London, not Paris
Yes, that’s right. We are now going to be moving to London in June or so and not Paris.
Why London? As it turns out, most of the people I will be working with on a regular basis are based in London. I will still need to go to Paris, Munich, Amsterdam, Milan, Madrid, among many other locations, but if I will be spending most of the time in London, then it only makes sense to live there.
Most of the details are the same as I explained when we thought we were moving to Paris.
We plan to live in the city, so we can have the full-on urban experience. Neighborhoods (“neighbourhoods” in the UK) that our friend Cullen suggests are “Chelsea or maybe Notting Hill. Both are pretty artsy, both have a vibrant nightlife, both are pretty safe and sane”. Hopefully the people who will help with our relocation will help find us someplace cool to live that we can also afford. Although afford isn’t really the way to put it…. exist without going flat broke is more like it. 
Milo is still going to move with us and Ripley is still going to live in Monroe, WA. We still want you to come and visit. We are still working on the new/unfinished house in Kirkland. Lorie will still be looking at various schools, but now in London. We probably won’t learn as much French though. Now we have to learn how to speak and spell real English, not American.
So wish us luck and please come visit!
The Adventures of Lorie and Brian Groth 