Blog | Tahoe!
For the last leg of our trip, we drove from San Francisco to Tahoe, with a brief stop in Folsom to visit one of my oldest friends Kelley. Sadly, I was having such a good time visiting, that I forgot to take one single picture while we were at her house. 
You’ll just have to take my word for it – her house and family are just beautiful, and our visit was too short – wished we lived closer to each other.
The next day, after a brief sleep over in Auburn, we headed up the mountain to Northstar. What a hair raising trip! We had lots of wintry weather, and at one point there were at least 50 semis pulled over in the emergency lane AND the right hand lane of I-80 so they could put their chains on their wheels. We took it very slowly and had absolutely no problems (thank you 4-wheel drive!). When we arrived at Northstar, Jason took off to ski in the rain while B and I toodled around the village in the rain. Yeah, it wasn’t nearly as much fun as it sounds. That afternoon, Jason and I traded off so I could go to my ski lesson (no skiing in 4 years makes for a nervous first trip down the slope). By that time it was snowing, and interestingly, conditions were perfect for me – the slush was just fast enough to get me going, but not fast enough for me to be uncomfortable. My instructor gave me all kinds of wonderful advice and I was on a blue run in no time. Uhhhh….she forgot to tell me she was taking me on a blue run…an ungroomed blue run…with nearly white out conditions…. It was definitely a challenge, but I came down o.k. without falling once!
O.k., so the first day was a little rough, but the next two were perfect! We took B to Minor’s Camp the next morning so we could ski together. Once she saw all the toys and movies and super fun things to do, she barely looked back at us to say goodbye! It was just beautiful on the mountain that day (this is the only picture I got, however)!
After we exhausted ourselves, we picked up B for some fun play in the snow, followed by pizza for dinner (seriously, the pizza is the only reason she agreed to stop playing in the snow)! This is HER mountain, and she scaled it beautifully! Up and down – this child does not get tired…
The next day, we skied some more – here was our view at the summit. The lake in the distance in the second picture is Lake Tahoe.
Of course, we picked up B early again so we could play in the snow again. This time we took her on the gondola and went up by the skiers. She declared that next year she will ski too (yay!), and then she scaled an even BIGGER “mountain”
After dinner at The Chocolate Bar (yes, you read that correctly), we headed back to San Jose to catch our flight home the next day. I have some videos of all the fun we had – I’ll try to get those sent out soon.
