Lake Tahoe

My long johns are getting a little snug! This is early on Sunday morning getting ready to go to Tahoe! Good thing I wore those little long johns! There was so much snow! We had to wear these special snow shoes so we wouldn't fall through! This is the road we drove down to get to the Grinelbakken. That's the name of the lodge where we stayed. Robby infront of lake Tahoe and its sign that must be really tall to stay above the snow! These next few pictures are all of the beautiful Lake Tahoe!Brave little duckies in the lake!!! Robby and I bought a saucer! It was so much fun! Of course, I only went down the kiddie hills, Clara was scared of the bigger ones! All of the pictures of me are blurry! Robby says it was because I would go a lot faster then he could! Huge ice cycles hanging off of our room!

Me in our room after a long, fun day! Clara is nice and snug!

Monday we spent the whole day hiking the Sierras! It was really hard to walk up mountains through all the snow! We had to have special equipment!

It was just gorgeous looking at the snow from the mountains. I don't know what was prettier... this or the lake! The moon was breathtaking with the snow falling down! The snow is brown from cars driving past!

The whole trip was fun and quite an adventure! Robby and I made friends with another young couple at the lodge and we shared a taxi cab into Tahoe city on Saturday night to eat and buy snow chains for our cars! There was a blizzard! Well, after the hike on Monday, we attempted to put the chains on our car and they were the wrong size! We were so cold and the snow was coming down so hard! I thought we might both cry when we realized that the only way to get more snow chains was to hike back to Tahoe city and then try to exchange the ones we had! Well, we started walking, and we walked and walked.... Robby was so afraid I would slip without the shoes we had already turned in! We finally made it to the gas station and all of the chains were sold out. To make things worse the lady said we couldn't return the $60 chains we bought that we couldn't even use! Well, guys, I don't know if Clara is going to be a fiesty one or not... but my Nana came out in me and I told the girl that I was 7 months pregnant and I had just walked 2 miles in the blizzard and that there was not one sign on our reciept or on the chain display that says we can't return them..... So we returned them! I thought Robby's jaw was going to drop off as she gaves us our money back! We walked around and found another gas station that had the right size, we bought the chains and walked back to the car! Thankfully these fit and we started what should have only been a 3 hour drive back to Berkeley. It took us 7 hours! The snow was coming down so hard and the roads were so icy and our headlights and windshield kept getting covered with mud from the big trucks! It was a crazy drive! But we made it home safely! It was a great trip. We have talked about going back for a weekend after Clara is born to see it without the snow. I think she would like it. Well, I guess I will let you go. I have worked the last two days and I still have clothes to unpack and wash and we have no groceries! I love you guys. Clara is getting so big! I can't wait to share these adventures with her! ~ Dea