March 5-7, 2010

After two years in the bay area, the stars aligned and I finally got a chance to go to Tahoe!  I got a special invitation to hang out with the Fluffies at their annual Tahoe trip- this year to Sierra.  It’s been at least 5 years since the last time I went skiing, and I’ve gone at most 2 or 3 times in the past 10 years after going almost 60-90 times a year during junior and senior year of high school.  When I got invited to the trip I instantly went on a mad search for all my gear… only to come up empty.  I thought of it as a good excuse to buy new stuff but it was also very expensive.  My rational is that I’ll just use the crap out of it.

Jane picked me & Will up from my house, and after picking up some more friends we headed over to Cathy’s in Emeryville for a quick reorg of the caravan.   We then stopped by Sonic for a quick bite, and although I wasn’t hungry from eating 인절미 and spam musubi, I couldn’t pass up on Sonic.

Arlan’s spam musubi!  I was excepting to eat one piece, but I got the entire roll!  Delicious!

The dice game on the first night!  Now I know what they were playing on Pirates of the Caribbean!

Do NOT sit next to Jason L. in this game.  He will knock you out, make you buy in with shots, only to knock you out again…

Andrew woke us up EARLY Saturday morning to hit the slopes.  Jane cooked up some delicious breakfast sandwiches and we were on our way.  The problem with skiing for the first time in a long time… or more accurately, the problem with exercising for the first time in a long time is that everything hurts about 10 seconds into it.  I got tired putting on my boots (no, seriously), and was exhausted by the time we got to the bottom of the hill from the car.

After the first run I quickly realized these are not the little bunny hills we have in Michigan, but full blow mountains!  I’m sure my body was saying STOP after the first run, but I had to pull every muscle in my legs to go on at least 3 or 4 more runs before lunch break.

The group packing up!

Ahsome demonstrating what we’re about to do~

From car to hill… SO FAR!

Ninja vanis~~~h and Ahsome.  I was pretty much dead by this point (bottom of the hill)

Everybody in good order: first run of the day

I slapped Ahsome’s butt with my ski pole, and it bent it… her butt is made of steeeeeel!

Play the videos together, its kind of funny, heh.

Ahsome fell asleep while waiting for food.  A Chinese lady walks over, looks at Ahsome, hesitates to take one of our chair, looks at Ahsome again (notices she’s knocked out), takes our chair.  I saw it ALL! DDAK gul lyut suh!

Mmm~ delicious lunch!  Sang and I noticed their “prime rib burger” used the same meat at their regular burger… we got the prime rib burger.

After lunch is where things got interesting, hazy, unclear (depending on the person).  Apparently a few people were allocated with a larger amount of the special juice we prepared the night before, and now that I think about it, decided it would be a great idea to drink it all.  While they were drinking away, I made a promise to Will that we would go on 3 more rides with one hour of skiing to go.  Bad idea.  Why?  Because on run 1/3 I could barely carve because my thighs and calves were dead.  But promise is a promise and I went on all three runs, PLUS a bunny slope run so more like 3.5 runs.

Just an example of the ridiculous state of these kids.

It was dinner time back in the cabin for most of us… nap time for some others.  Big thumbs up to our cooks of the night!! From there we eventually moved onto some ridiculous round of games.  There were quite a few moments where I thought I was going to die laughing.  I was also challenged to a push up contest somewhere during the night by JANE (yes a girl, thanks Ahsome for reminding me…) and lost.  Not only were my legs sore the next day, my upper body was sore too, my entire body was mad at me.  After a quick stop for Pho at a random town near Sacramento (random as in, these people had cows and donkeys roaming around in their back yard), we called it a weekend and headed our separate ways.  Good job guys, and thanks for inviting me to an awesome trip!

2010 Fluffies Ski Trip!