i am back from my skiing adventures of Lake Tahoe. let me tell ya it was definitely SPRING skiing. i wore a long sleeve t-shirt and a vest and was completely fine. friday was cooler than saturday. saturday i didn't even need gloves. anyways...it was a pretty amazing trip. this year my family ended up going with some old family friends of ours (my sister and i went to elementary with them) that we used to do a lot of trips with, so that was kinda fun to re-connect and catch up. it was sorta awkward as well though just simply because we really don't have a lot in common anymore (more just i don't), but it was still cool.
we left thursday afternoon around 3:00. it was a good thing we left eary because we were driving into the airport and then my step dad realized he had forgotten his bag, so we went all the way back...it was yet another terrifying driving experience! he is a crazy man behind the wheel i tell you! 20 min to get from LAX to my house with traffic!!! i thought i was going to puke. seriously. anyway, we flew into the Reno airport and then drove to Tahoe. we skied all friday, which was fun. i did a couple of black diamonds and only ate it once. funny thing was i didn't even fall on a black diamond...it was on a pretty easy part. but, boy did i eat it good! lost a ski and a pole, landed on the back of my neck and rolled a couple times down the hill. haha! bet that was a sad sight! no worries though...didn't leave any lasting damage...perhaps a bruise or two, but i just got up and kept going.
saturday we also skied all day, this time i managed without falling. it got up to 70* that day! crazy! it was a bit cooler at the top of the mountain, but only by about 6 or 7 degrees. the view of the lake from the top was absolutely beautiful though! after skiing and betsy and i getting lost in the trees (courtesy of me :) we made it back to our condo, where we thought we would be able to relax a bit before going into town. but instead there was some type of freaky rock concert going on right below us. i'm a fan of rock, but not this kind...screaming galore! i took a video of it so i'll post it later. pretty hilarious.
today was nothing too interesting we walked around old town Truckee (major town there), which was nice. it has a bunch of cute little random shops. then it was off to Reno to catch a flight. but, on the way we happened to stop and get gas at the location of the Bonnie and Clyde famous death car. random? i think so. seriously out in the middle of no where there is a chevron, a random casino (well, it is Nevada) and in the casino a few historical items from Bonnie and Clyde. it has the car they were shot in and also the shirt he got shot in. i was slightly disappointed that they had washed the shirt and cleaned it up...come on now keep it all natural and preserved the way it was. blood and all. with how many bullet holes the car and the shirt had in them there must have been blood. haha is that morbid? betsy thought i was a freak and disgusting, but whatever. so that experience was cool, i guess. random, but cool.
well, that pretty much concludes the condensed version of my trip.
i'll put some videos and pictures up in a little bit.
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