So I grew up in Utah, and my parents — this is such a stereotype, my parents were ski instructors. And we had a bizarre year round school schedule, so our summer was only five weeks long, but we got this three week breaks throughout the year. And my parents — because they worked at Sundance Ski Resort – put our three week break right after the holiday break, so we ended up having five weeks of skiing, and we had no choice, because they weren’t going to pay a babysitter to stay home with the kids, so we had to ski from 8am to 5 when the mountain closed, every day.
Which seems fun for the first few hours, but if you’ve ever been in the snow for that long, you know, it’s a long day. And I spent a lot of those hours sitting on chairlifts just daydreaming and thinking about stuff because there’s nothing to do [chuckles] on a chairlift, while thinking about, I wonder if I can track down one of my parents mid-lesson — you know, they’re trying to do their job, and I’m bothering them for lunch money.
[whispers] Can I have a dollar? Yeah, but a fun place to grow up. A very quiet place, it’s great for cartooning because there’s not a lot of distractions. You know?
