Brad & Emily's Adventures on the Oregon Trail: NYE 2012 in Utah

For New Years Eve, I decided to take a roadtrip with a few friends to Utah to do some snowboarding. Unfortunately, Emily's new job required that she work during NYE so she was not able to join us on the trip. Along for the ride in my old 4runner were Sean (a friend from work) and his wife Adrienne. Chad Staker drove out from Denver to meet us there. We left Thursday evening and drove through the night, stopping for only 2.5 hrs sleep, to arrive in Park City, Utah on Friday afternoon. Thanks to Facebook, I learned that cousin Greg Tung was also in town snowboarding that same week, so we got to meet up and ride together for a day at Snowbird.
On NYE night, we were treated to some unexpected excitement. Since we were all tired from the drive and snowboarding, we crashed kind of early in our rental condo. Around 2:30AM we were awoken to a disturbance: there was a random stranger in our living room and he had fallen into a wall!! He was obviously quite intoxicated and not really aware of where he was. From what we could piece together, he knew the person who owned our rental condo so he knew the combination for the door lock. Chad was trying to convince him to leave and threatened to call the cops. Little did we know that minutes earlier, this same guy had been banging on our neighbor's door, so they had already called the cops. The police handcuffed the man, and we all had to write statements at 3AM. What a bizarre way to start the new year!