Tahoe: Spring Break ‘OH-10

Trafton B.

March 27, 2010 - 1:44 PM

To be completely fair and to maintain my own authorial integrity, my friends and I spent our time just outside of Tahoe in Truckee, CA. Regardless, our spring break has been exceptional.

After staying Tuesday night at my parents' place in San Mateo, Leslie, Kate, Boo and I met up with another carload of friends en route to eastern California where we spent the remaining few days of spring break. I couldn't really have asked for a better way to spend my time really. Good food. Good wine. Good friends. For fear of sounding cliché, we had everything we needed.
I particularly liked how we had impromptu themes for each night.

Wednesday night, we headed into town for dinner at El Toro Bravo and then came home to play board games and watch movies while sipping margaritas and munching on chips and salsa. Thursday night was chicken parmesan, spaghetti and wine. And tonight we're grilling burgers and cracking open some brews. Mexico, Italy and America. All in three days. Not too mention that we ate far better than our college student norm.

Our days were usually spent playing cards, watching movies and enjoying the weather. Wednesday, we rummaged through closets for winter clothing where we chose between different bright jackets, wool beanies and polyester jumpsuits. It was painfully obvious that these were all purchased in the Nineties. But we still rocked the suits proudly. We didn't plan on going much farther than the backyard anyways. They got us through a couple snowball fights and sledding.

Oddly enough, we stayed within the same decade and watched a Disney classic, Free Willy. It was on VHS, no less. Then we began watching This Is It, the movie of Michael Jackson rehearsing for his final tour, which I might add is awesome. If you're an MJ fan, which I am not shy to admit that I am, you have to see this movie.

Yesterday, we headed back into town for a little window-shopping. Truckee isn't the biggest of ski towns, but it was quaint. Elegant in its simplicity, one might say. We tasted the local chocolates and soaked up as much sunshine as possible. Actually, the temperature reached mid-50s during the day. I felt fine without a jacket, and Winston was wearing shorts all day.
We jumped in the hot tub in the afternoon. Barring any discrepancies later tonight, I think we've all made a minimum of two trips to the hot tub each day.

Now we're driving back to Eugene on Highway 20, somewhere between Truckee and Willows, CA. We decided to take the back roads as opposed to backtracking to Sacramento. Time wise it's supposedly faster. All I know is that my stomach would have been fine with the longer route. I've tried to keep my mind busy by enjoying the scenic forest drive and playing "Marco Polo" with signs between the two cars.

I guess college kids are supposed to celebrate spring break in Cabo or Hawaii, but we aren't really a group that judges themselves against the status quo. Very few people at the U of O do, I feel.

We chose snow over sand and we have no regrets. Plus, there's always next year.

Spring Break ‘010!!!