It's never too late!

So I made it after all! Even if I was getting a bit worried a few weeks back, I finally managed to get to Lake Tahoe. It was beautiful!

On Wednesday afternoon me, J.R, Kelvin, Alex and his friend Thibaut who was visiting from France, got our car from our usual rental place, after only a few minor difficulties - like them having lost our reservation. Luckily they still had enough cars and we left for Tahoe only an hour late. J.R. had booked us a great room in a cabin on the beach in North Shore Lake Tahoe.


It was a great trip. Mostly we just relaxed: read New York Times by the fake fire on the beach, went to the hotel pool and ate super well. We did also go on a crazy hike up a skiing slope (or actually next to it, in the bush, with ten million sticks and fallen trees to climb over, crawl under or walk through). I also learned a new word on the trip as the boys spent some "quality time" in a jacuzzi with the local hustler, ie. cocaine/drug dealer. They didn't stay long though, since we were too busy with our own, wild holiday plans: grilling marshmallows (or s'mores) by the fire, going to bed before 11 pm. and busting the almost loud youngsters spending their evening on the hotel grounds without permission to the hotel security. Me and Kelvin were slightly rebellious too though, and kept throwing giant pine cones into the fire to get some real smoke and crackling noise instead of the gas fire the hotel provided.


Then on Friday, it was time to head back to Berkeley. It turned out to have been a great idea to go to Tahoe in the midlle of the week, since the traffic going that way on Friday afternoon looked terrible; our 3,5 hour drive there on Wednesday would probably have taken us almost twice as long in that Friday traffic. And, I also got a new campus to add to my collection: UC Davis. We had a little break on our way back and said a quick hi to Kelvin's friend Melissa, who studies in Davis and frequently visits the infamous Berkeley restaurant Cheeseboard, where we have spent many a good night with and without her. UC Davis seemed really nice and flat compared to Berkeley. It was super hot however! And true, it can get hot here in Berkeley as well, so I think I'd better go and try out the Berkeley pools today, before it's too late!