Our party of four was joined by a family of five, a group of three professional women, a 30-something couple and a 23-year-old boarder from Bristol.
The census records are rich documents of humanity, practically short stories in the way they capture fragmentary glimpses of some people, like Isie "last name unknown," a 20-year-old boarder in the apartment of Max Goldstein.
An old man casts his mind back to 1962 and his time as a 16-year-old boarder at St Oswald's, a strictly run school on the crumbling East Anglian coast.
"Go, old people!" Jack Sibbach, the director of marketing for the Sun Valley Resort, said that more and more middle-aged people ask for snowboarding lessons every year and that resorts are trying to draw in new and older boarders.
As of last year, there were only 123 seven-year-old boarders in Britain.
Kids Camp, offered Friday through Sunday and holiday periods, for skiers 4 to 12 years old and boarders 7 to 12.
A 17-year-old body boarder lost his left foot and ankle in a shark attack, prompting the authorities to close two miles of a popular beach in Lihue.
Surfers in the lineup rushed to the 52-year-old paddle boarder and carried him back to shore.
Dino Casimiro, a 35-year-old body-boarder from Nazaré, is an ardent admirer of the waves and one of the major initiators of the city's image makeover.
Their relationship as roommates, an older man and his boarder a generation apart, lasted almost a year.
Mary and her younger sister, Patricia, lived with their mother's parents in Totnes, Devon, until they were old enough to become boarders at the Sacred Heart Convent, in Roehampton, south-west London.
