Saturday, September 03, 2005

Lake Tahoe

Labour Day weekend we picked up our camping gear and drove to Lake Tahoe. Lake Tahoe is nestled 6500 feet up in the Sierra Nevada mountains with the California and Nevada border splitting it in half.

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This place is the perfect all year round vacation spot. Swimming, hiking, sailing, driving, camping, gambling, sking, snowboarding, rock climbing.. the list goes on !

The first place we went to was the beach. The water is pretty cold, but the scenery was beautiful. I think we all fell asleep in the sun on the beach. We were awake at 6:00 am to drive here.

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We brought a bunch of meat to cook on the BBQ, It was really good. We slept in tents and it got down to 2 degres celsius at night! We all woke up frozen the next day. It was ok because it warmed up pretty good.

The next day we got out on the JetSkis. SO WICKED !.. Snowmobile, ATV, JetSki.. You gotta try these things. Anyway, Aniruddha decided to go 50 MPh and turn violently to the left. We flew off of the thing pretty far. haha.. ouch. The water was pretty choppy and we skipped over the waves like crazy.

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That night we drove into Nevada to check out Virginia city and Reno. Virginia is a scary mining town. We also drove through Carson City which happens to be the Capital of Nevada. Reno reminds me exactly of Old Vegas. With all the crazy lights and smokey Casinos. Anyway, it was really cool to see.

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On the way home we drove through a few small towns including Volcano City. Here we went down into some cool caves and saw some Stalactites and Stalagmite.

This was a pretty cool trip and we had a great time!