Lake Tahoe

Did anyone ever drive a car with snowchains on?
Well, i never had until yesterday, and i'll tell ya- it was a bumpy ride!

The snow came Sunday. During the day it rained, and of course the rain turned into thick white snowflakes up on the mountain. I was in awe... i had forgotten it was so beautiful with snow....

Of course. After a while the snow got kind of annoying, and i realized that it was more fun to ski in sunshine.

1. You dont have to look like an astronaut disguised as an eskimo for one thing.
2. And The flakes turns into drops, which just distorts just about everything you see in the skiglasses. Which...can be annoying too.
3. You dont have to freeze the fingers off when the cheap shitty gloves leak in (seriously, i thought my fingers would rot)
4. Its a ton easier to turn when its not "new snow" and you dont fall like a cartoon face down in the deep snow. (yes i did)
5. Beginner skiis + new snow = bad idea. They just wont move!
6. And you dont have to fear for the thought of 28 days later-"zombies in snowland"
   

I dont know what happened, but me and David was like, alone in the mountain on Sunday. Had the whole slopes for ourselves. It felt like 28 days later.
Every now and then a lonely snowboarder or crazy skiier would pass us by.
Then there we were. Alone on a big mountain with our eskimo outfits. Poor us.

Anyway. Tahoe was great.
Our little cottage was definatly a great part of it! Decided to spend a little extra for some cozy-ness.
It was called te "twig house" and a little narrow stair took us up to this little cute tree-house looking place. Everything was in wood, tiny windows, gas-fireplace, a little sitting room which we never used.
Ahhh... i didnt wanna leave. It was the most cute place we ever stayed at.!!

In the mornin' there was a good breakfast in the main cabin. (we were a bit worried, cause sometimes when they say "continental breakfast included" it means donuts and some coffee. I dont know whats so freakin continental about that, but its sure isnt healthy) So we were surprised when we got really good food.

There was no partying. Are you crazy? Party? When you wake up at 7am and have to force a very tired husband up from bed. No, there was a restaurant though. And the thought of having a drink somewhere.
"Do you wanna have a drink somewhere?"
'honestly...no....im exhausted"
"Mee too lets just go home and snuggle"
"yeah, I mean its.... 7.20pm....what??? Its 7.20??

That might sound lame.

Anyway. David, who had way too much sun that day and was all swollen, probably had a heat stroke. So the evening was short. I watched an incredible boring movie with Queen Latifah. I know. Thats even more lame.

To sum up. First day-hella warm and sunny. Easy to ski. restaurant. sleep.
Second day- hella cold. Difficult to ski. Alone in slope. rotten fingers. swollen eyes.

then there was the adventure of going home. After a while, the traffic was stuck and we saw cars on the sides putting their chains on.
"ahh come ooon, its just raining, we dont need chains!! Americans always exhagerate!!"
Well, turns out we did. We asked one of the "chain workers" if it was mandatory, and yes i was, because it was snowing like crazy higher up. If u dont have chains on at the chain control, u must turn around! So 30 bucks later and chains on the tires we were on our way. And after a while, we were driving in a crazy snowstorm.
The stupid thing was, that about 30 mins later, we had to take them off. snow was gone and the rain was back. :-)

Kississ ::: Skiboo