And it was GREAT to see each other again :-)
(except Anniken)
Everything is big in US, also the turkey legs for lunch!!!
But not big enough for a hungry Norwegian skier!!
We had nice, cozy meals at home in the evenings!
Who likes American hamburgers??
The BBQ-chefs!
T-I and Jim found the steepest cliff down from KT-22.
The telemarker!!
The biggest half-pipe we have ever seen. But Jack managed :-)
It's hard to study Romeo and Juliet and Greek Culture after a loooong day's skiing........
Sondre and Cathy made the fire every night!
Who can live without Champagne??
Sondre and T-I in the jacuzzi on the terrace.
Who wants chocolate cake????????
Cathy and I found a Starbuck's (and a Life is Good store) in Squaw Valley one day, and had a rest and a chat alone :-))
Nice grab!!
Yohoo!
Great jump Jack :-)
The boys loved the terrain park!
Cathrine and Cathy happy to be together again!!
The "good" thing about having a good friend on another continent is that we have to travel to see each other. So now we can start planning when and where to travel next........!! It doesn't have to be Bettendorf or POA; it can be Porto de Galinhas or Macchu Pichu or Hawaii......
We couldn't complain about the weather!
Enjoying some beers and chardonnay in Northstar in the after-noon,
while the boys got rid of some more energy!
We were skiing in the forests. That was great fun - I've never done that!
In Heavenly we were skiing in Nevada and California!
Amazing scenery from Heavenly!
Wonder who we are chatting with when we are both here???
The Sieleman family in front of the Olympic flame.
No comments necessary!
We were all experts - especially the two smallest :-)
Ready go !?
Conclusion:
Great - greater - greatest week!!!
We have been skiing all over the Alpes, but never in US. The landscape looked a bit like Norway actually (Norefjell, Hemsedal) but the slopes were a lot longer. We skied 3 days in Squaw Valley, 2 days in Northstar (my favorite), one day in Heavenly and the others skied in rain half a day in Alpine Meadows (I couldn't be bothered!)It was A LOT of snow. Not even a tiny stone or a brown spot of earth, despite 7 very warm days. NO lines at all, very very few people, and that is very unusual because Lake Tahoe is a fancy and popular area. Cathy and Jim thought it is because of the financial crisis. And that we can understand, because the liftcard was 80 dollars a day, which is almost the double as in Europe!!! But our huge house was half the price as a tiny appartment in St. Anton and you can eat a lot for "nothing" so all-in-all it depends on the price of the wine!! And the Californian wine is GOOD and so was the company!
So we cannot decide if we like the Alpes or Lake Tahoe the most - but we are SURE we will come back!
Cathy and Jim are dreaming about buying a house by the lake, so they can use it for summer and winter - but there are no house for sale less than 1,5 mill dollars, even at this time, so it shows how popular the destination is!!! The most expensive we saw was 235 mill dollars. Keep dreaming :-)
New skis:
T-I brought his telemark-skis and Sondre his snow-board, but I couldn't be bothered to bring my old and bad skis from Norway to Brasil to US, so I rented skis. The rental store guy asked me how good I was. I said normal and T-I said good. He asked, are you good or normal? I said normal. He said, I believe your husband, because women never like to boast, so I'll give you the best pair I have!! (I guess he saw the opportunity to finally rent the most expensive pair!) The truth is they were so heavy I couldn't carry them. They were far more heavy than Jim's skis, even though his were a meter longer than mine! So T-I ended up dragging them around. BUT - they were good!! Even on ice and in the after-noon sugar snow they were steady and fast and made me ski quite good :-) So after the rental period he asked me how I liked the skis? I like them so much I want to buy them, I said! I'll sell them for 499 with bindings! New they cost 1000 dollars without bindings. Rental would be 200 dollars, but if I bought them I would get that for free! That means - I'd pay 299 for the best pair of skis ever with bindings - but I have to pay a sherpa to carry them though!!
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Correction: I skied the full day despite raining cats and dogs.
Yes yes - you hard core skier you. :-) AND Jim. We already miss you guys - and did you know that on Sunday after we left the entire Tahoe area got almost one meter of new winter snow???? What do you think - should we put down a down payment on the 1.6 million dollar house?
Absolutely! I promise to visit :-)
Why not the one to 235 mill?? So you can invite more friends :-)
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