Ski at Tahoe

Went away with family and friends to South Lake Tahoe this weekend. Despite the warm weather, hubby and I took our son to the slopes at Heavenly on Saturday. We had loads of fun! It's the first time I wasn't cold while skiing. Tahoe didn't get much snow this year. Fortunately for us, two days before we got there, it snowed 2 inches.

We took Heavenly Village Gondola up to the slopes. It was a gorgeous ride--long and steep with an unobstructed view of lake Tahoe. When we got up to the top, we found out there weren't any green slopes nearby. We had to take a blue trail to get to the California side where all the green slopes are located. By the time we got over there, my son was so used to ski on the blues, we decided to stay on the blue trails anyway. We skied at Heavenly twice before. But we stayed around green slopes most of the times. This is the first time ever we got to the top of the hill at Heavenly, and realized the views along the trails were spectacular!

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My son and hubby sitting in the Gondola on the way back:

The only drawback for the day was I got terribly sunburned on my face because I forgot to bring sunblocks. %-\  Silly me--I only associate sunblocks with beaches.  By the time we went to dinner, my face looked like a lobster!

 

Speaking of lobster, we went to a fantastic restaurant on the 16th floor of Harrah's Casino called The Summit.  We had a full course meal paired with different wines.  There was so much food that I couldn't even finish my scrumptious lobster entrée--I had to save some room for the dessert--it was Grand Marnier Soufflé!  Yum!

It's now Monday, and my whole body is sore!