South Lake Tahoe!

This past weekend we took a weekend get-away with Mike, Laura and Mike's brother Derek to South Lake Tahoe!  We rented a cabin in South Lake Tahoe that had a hot tub and a nice fenced in yard for Alee and brought all the fixins for great home-cooked meals.  When we arrived Friday evening, they were getting 3 inches of snow per hour!  Luckily we had our Subaru so there were no concerns on our part, but we definitely saw lots of people struggling to get up the pass on the way there! On the way down we stopped at the Reno REI and saw they had some garage sale remnants left. (Because REI has a 100% no questions asked return policy, they sell their returned goods through a "garage sale" twice a year.)  Boy did we get lucky - Ed and I both got "almost-new" snowboarding boots for $9.95 each!

Saturday, before we headed to the mountain, we dropped Alee off at Tahoe Best Friends - a no-kennel doggie day care!  She started playing right away!

By about 9am we hit the slopes at Sierra at Tahoe - a resort with a nice variety of runs for all our skill levels.  Ed and I checked out the 2.5 mile long green run - Sugar and Spice.  There was 2 FEET of fresh powder on the grounds, so it made falling a little softer!  There were a lot of people falling down in the powder so by the afternoon the slopes looked like golf balls with little holes everywhere.

 The drive up - TONS of snow!

 The Slopes - heading to the top of the mountain

 On the lift!

Lake Tahoe in the distance

After a lot of falling and some pretty cool moves, we headed back to get Alee and go back to the cabin to make dinner - hamburgers, potato salad and Tres Leches Cake!  Of course we had to sit in the hot tub a little to start recovering...

 Alee helping to cook...

Relaxing!

Sunday the forecast was calling for heavy snow so we decided to head out a little sooner than expected.  There was so much snow we couldn't even see the lake, but we headed to a little park to try and get a group shot.  With so much snow there was no place to even rest the camera - so we have a "2 part" group shot!

 Alee was sad to leave the cabin...as we all were...

 Group shot Part 1...

 Group shot part 2 - even with Alee!

Cloudy and snowy Lake Tahoe

We said good bye to Derek in Reno after a fantastic lunch at the Wild River Grill and then finally headed back to Klamath Falls on perfectly dry and clear roads.  Great weekend!