Went with the Singaporean association at Stanford to Lake Tahoe this weekend to ski. Was quite fun, Saturday had really fantastic weather, and from the mountain you can see the lake and on the other side you can see the plains of Nevada surrounded by mountains. Great stuff. :) Sunday morning we awoke to find it snowing, and it didn't stop snowing the entire day. Apparently the snow was from a storm that came from the Gulf of Alaska... I cut short my skiing time 'cos the weather made skiing kinda unpleasant. The drive back was amazingly terrible - first they had chain control through the mountains, so there was stop-and-go traffic that backed up so far that we were probably in the traffic for 3 hours, maybe even more. Then just as we were about to pass chain control into the mountains, they stopped the traffic completely - apparently some car had taken a spin on the mountain. So for at least an hour, we sat in traffic not moving at all. Meanwhile the snow was coming down really heavily outside and with really strong winds. I must say it was kind of exciting to drive through the mountain during the storm though.
So we set off from Tahoe at 2:30pm, and what should have been a 4-5 hour drive became a 10 hour journey (including a 1 hr stop for dinner). Skipped my morning classes this morning to sleep, was really tired last night when I went to bed. Didn't get a good rest both nights that we were at Tahoe either. So, skiing was fun. But I was exhausted when I got back... and I'm actually still kinda tired now. Econ 52 midterm this week. Sigh. :/
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