The Timberline Lodge is beautiful. Built during Prohibition, it still retains most of its original charm and is literally a museum inside of a lodge. There is another newer lodge here across the parking lot and that's where you can rent your skis, buy lift tickets, get quick food to go, etc.

This is a popular place for weddings and honeymoons. There were two weddings on Monday and one yesterday. The one yesterday was up at the Silcox hut, another 1000 feet up the mountain. We rode the ski lift up there yesterday but the snow was blowing too hard to make it worth walking around and sightseeing.

I wrote yesterday about the free earplugs. I could have used them last night. Ever stayed in a hotel room and you get some moron standing out in the hallway talking as loud as if he were discussing football with a buddy at a bar? It gets me these moronic people who do not use "inside voices" after sundown in hotel rooms and corridors, who stomp past your room banging their skis into the walls - and worse yet, who let their kids go pounding and screaming through the hallways. I think there are two small kids in this lodge for every adult, and that's not much of a stretch. It's been quite literally impossible to get a bite to eat without having some screaming brat at the adjacent table. And it's not the kid's fault - it's those same inconsiderate, moronic parents who shouldn't have been allowed to breed in the first place.

Enough on that. Did I mention yet that a large number of guests here can't speak English? I guess this Lodge really does draw from all corners of the world ... or from L.A., at the very least.

We are on the top floor, the third floor, room 301. When you flush the toilet, enough energy is released to (I surmise) blow a basketball out of orbit and halfway to the moon. I mean, these are REAL toilets, the kind Al Bundy would be proud of. But it's a whole other story in the shower - the water gets hot and stays hot but it just kinda dribbles down over you and, worse yet, stops completely anytime someone else uses their water or flushes their toilet. It's amazing that with literally millions of cubic yards of frozen water to all sides, the best I can get out of the shower is a little sprinkle.

People are just rude, coming back to my earlier rant. I think that's all there is to it. I write often about how we as a society have become hugely intolerant and very selfish. I think today's parents think that because you can't spank a child, you can't discipline a child, either. I've seen more couples this weekend who are subservient to the whims and desires of their kids.

But outside of weak shower flow and rude people standing out in the hallway talking on a cell phone from 10:20 to 10:55 p.m., we're having a great time!

Be sure to check the Coleman Photoblog for photos from the Timberline Lodge.