Rod,
My wife and I should be up there all weekend. My friend has a condo at Cascade Village, so it all depends when he is there. Drinks would be cool, I would love to meet some X5WORLDers. Vail is awesome for New Years, if you are planning to do anything in town you should try to make reservations now because everything gets booked for New Year's Eve. Check out
www.snow.com, it lists all the resorts owned by vail and has all the activities that will be going on.