February 24, 2006

• PREZ WEEKEND

  The Drive
  
  
  
  so we left friday night... just like everyone else.... but we left at
  like 830 after dinner... i drove to auburn and switched with pat b/c it
  started snowing.... and from there... we went slowly for about 20
  miles... and around there we were pretty much in traffic... like if we
  went 5 mph we were happy!  literally it took us almost 2 hours to
  go 5 MILES!!!!! it sucked big time... we finally got to the condo at
  around 430 in the morning.... pat didn't go to sleep and i slept for
  like 3 hours or so....

  Heavenly
  we were staying in tahoe city on the west side of the lake but pat's
  company got tickets for heavenly in south lake tahoe so we drove over
  there... it was snowing when we left so we thought it was gonna be
  freeeeeeezing and snowy... but after driving a little ways it was
  nothing but sunshine!  it was about a 30 minute drive but it was so beautiful...

  
  the road to south lake tahoe

  got to heavenly and spent most of the time getting over to the
  desginated meeting place for the group picture... while going over we
  saw AWESOME views!

  
  views of the nevada side

  lunch was super expensive but at that point i'd eat anything!  i
  had a snickers to hold me over right before b/c i felt really
  faint...  bleh... met up with some of pat's coworkers and saw some
  pretty gnarly injuries... this one dude went around a tree and hit a
  short limb right in his mouth... so he had a FAT LIP and puffy mouth
  area... pat's other coworker was trying to on his bindings but ended up
  slipping and his board came around and hit in the head and twisted his
  knee.... he had a big bump on the side of his head!  i guess we're
  lucky nothing happened to us....

  right about when we were finishing up eating there was a mini
  blizzard... it got super cold and we sought shelter in the mini bar...
  after that we found out we missed the group photo... boo....spent the
  rest of the day getting back to the car... at which point i was getting
  pretty tired... so going down a run my calf decided to cramp! 
  ended up going on my heel edge the rest of the way.... took a nice
  break for some expensive hot chocolate before heading back... and pat
  took a last run...

  
  views of the lake

  drove over to pat's coworkers house they rented for the weekend...
  pretty much laid out with our feet by the fake fire.... so nice... and
  almost dozed off a few times and then headed over to their company
  pizza party.... and headed back right after... b/c we had to drive back
  to tahoe city... i totally knocked out and pat drove...

  Squaw
  headed over with everyone to squaw... so much fun! got a few
  inches of snow during the night... so it was nice and fluffy except for
  the hard layer of ice... had to be careful where we were going... ended
  up finding this awesome run we went on over and over again b/c there
  was awesome powder... i got stuck several times... but it was
  soooooooooooo much fun... ate a quick lunch by a fire (not as expensive
  as heavenly and they toasted our buns) and went back up... the last run
  though i was sliding on my butt on ice for part of it... really
  scary... bleh...

  

  lake view and going down one of the runs

  pat's friend ended up stopping for part of the day b/c her ankle was
  totally bugging her and then twisted it a bit so the crossed skis in
  the picture is where the ski patrol went and picked her up... luckily
  it was horrible, her boots needed some adjustments and she was on her
  way... but it still bugged her... towards the end of the day i was
  pretty much done b/c i was tired... so went with her to get her boots
  fixed again...
  

  we left in the morning and didn't hit too much traffic... stopped off in the east bay to eat here
  for some SUPER yummy pizza... i guess i could have taken a picture but
  we were SOOOOOO HUNGRY!  and then came home and crashed...

  all in all it was an AWESOME weekend!

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