i'm not really a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants kinda gal, but somehow dan & sal were able to convince me to go to tahoe with them with just 2 days notice. to some (like dan), that's planning ahead...but to me, that's totally spontaneous. here's the recap. i'm waiting for sal to send me the few pics that we took so i can post those too.
Biggest Accomplishment = buying Sal's watch
Biggest blessing = not needing to put chains on despite the storm
Day 1: Tues, Dec 26
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5am = arrived at Dan's to load my car for the trip. we'd forgotten to bring any CDs so we listened to my really really old stuff and it was pretty fun cuz we'd try to guess the artist & title before the chorus. dan was really good at it. i somehow guessed right for color me badd's song even though i barely know who they are!! :) but that kept us awake & entertained for the drive up.
~9am = we arrived at Squaw to high winds...it was crazy windy...there was like just 1 lift open which was better than most other resorts which were closed!! we were assured that the storm was supposed to pass and there'd be great ski conditions the next day tho.
Plans foiled, we headed to reno and since it was still way too early to check-in, we went shopping instead! I practically fell asleep on a bench waiting for sal to try on some dress shirts so we grabbed some starbucks and continued our shopping spree. dan & sal actually enjoyed shopping and helped me decide what to get or not (um...turned out, mostly not) heh at the end we browsed men's fine watches and sal found a nice Tag Heuer watch that both dan & i agreed was by far our fav but dan convinced sal not to get it cuz it would be cheaper elsewhere.
We checked into the Comfort Inn or something like that (where i had a room all to myself!) and then headed out to look for internet to get cheaper ski lift tix (since we had been counting on getting the 2-day pass thru squaw which would have been a good discount but now we were only going for one day). There was free wireless at our motel, but none of us had brought our laptops! so i suggested we go to the library..where the internet is FREE. woohooo. So that's wat we did...and the reno public library is quite big. i was impressed. really old building and stuff, but still nice. And they had free internet connection available even to people without a library card!! i don't think they even do that in the PLs at home (which are among the best in the nation)! Anyhow, while we were there, Sal searched online for his watch and found it for like $500 less thru some place on amazon marketplace (better reliability)!! what a deal. so he quickly bought it. PLs are so great!
Day 2: Wed, Dec 27
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Got up & checked out by 7am in order to grab a substantial breakfast at Denny's before hitting the slopes.
It was COoooooold and SNOWing all day long. I was so glad i was able to borrow bob's ski mask, otherwise, i think my nose woulda frozen over & fallen right off. the powder was super fresh and it was the first time i'd ever boarded while it was snowing. i can't say that i'm eager to repeat the experience. i wore every bit of clothing possible and i was still cold. and my board kept getting stuck in the powder, so i fell a lot and it was hard to get back up cuz i'd be buried in the snow...and visibility was bad for me...so it was hard to see the bumps in the trails, thus causing more falls. and i was pretty much messing up all day. it was like the board had a mind of its own and i couldn't control it. i know it's probably all in my head, but i didn't get over it by the end of the day and so i sucked real bad all day. i feel sorry for dan who had to wait for me for most of the day (sal was off on his own taking a class). i finally gave up and called it quits around 2:30p so i could eat lunch and lick my wounds (mostly figurative, except for one fall where i just had to land on the one spot of rock-hard ice available). *sigh* yeah. not my ideal day of boarding. ah well.
so i've already achieved my goal of going up to squaw once this season...but since it was a bit of a crummy experience, i haven't really satisfied my boarding itch for the season. so i'll probably go up again! :) hehe and yes, i'll post a recap of my maui trip with pics eventually (before school starts i hope)!
