New Year's Eve: Being fully booked, the Lodge was teeming with people. Some of those people were the Flores family, wealthy Mexicans on vacation to Montana. An energetic and fun-loving family, they hit Big Sky with intensity and passion. On New Year's Eve they returned before midnight after an evening of frivolity to join the party at the Lodge. As we rang in the New Year out on the back deck watching the fireworks on Lone Mountain, Mrs. Flores loudly gave everyone outside a New Year's hug (as per Mexican tradition, purportedly) and Mr. Flores expressed his genuine heartfelt love for all of us. He then questioned me as to where we kept the cannon, and when I informed him that we were sadly lacking in the cannon department, he suggested that we rig up the coin machine from the basement so that we could shoot quarters at the igloo.
When the Flores family parted, they had too much luggage for their rental vehicle by about double, so since I was taking Jeff's truck down to Bozeman for shopping anyway, I volunteered to drop off their excess bags at the airport hotel. In return for my services I received 30 American Dollars (most of which went to gas), 20 Mexican Pesos, three $5 calling cards, two hugs and a handshake. Twelve days of Christmas, meet Mexican New Year.
Below is a video of Mr. Flores shortly after 12am MST:
i love the "ok?" at the end of his noise making...
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