"Standards, you say," Lisa drawled with a certain amount of (manufactured) disbelief. "What are those, exactly? Are they some new health food? I don't think I've heard of them." But she couldn't hide her grin.

"Sure, though, I'd be up for poking our heads in. Maybe they'll have something exciting!" She didn't comment on warming up; she kind of took it as a given, not that she was complaining. She still wasn't quite used to New York winters, let alone exotic foreign ski resort winters.