This is the tale of a mild-mannered computer scientist with just one name: Arvind.

Before coming to the US, Arvind was a scrawny, malnourished, and completely non-athletic guy. Note the gaunt expression.

As punishment for some unknown transgressions in a previous life, Arvind chose to spend the break with the entire Peterson clan in Colorado.

This is his story.

Arvind had the misfortune to be placed in an office just across the hall from a disreputable, menacing character prone to use "W" words like "wimp", "weenie", "wuss", and "wumpus". Well. maybe not "wumpus". Anyway, this questionable person has subjected poor Arvind to all manner of tortures over the years: water torture, cliff torture, snow torture, and, worst of all, kid torture.

So here it is. A record for all to see of the humiliations and agonies that Arvind endured at the hands of the Peterson mafia.

Day 1: Terror in Eldorado Springs

Day 2: The Ski Lift of Doom

Day 3: A Frigid Ski Tour

Day 4: Rocky Mountain Low

Day 5: Powder Power

Day 6a: Panic on Granite

Day 6b: A Final Assault on Arvind

The Dignified Professor