Snowy mountain Tahoe trip

5 adults
4 bags of clothes
3 moving boxes of food and hot pot gears
2 kids
1 snowboard
All packed into my blue hippo named Odyssey, riding a good 6 hours up the snowy mountain for our last minute ski trip. To my surprise, both kids did quite well on the road. We only made 3 stops, with 1 for lunch. They both took a long nap. When they woke up, it's snow everywhere. April was truly excited while River has no clue of the change outside the window. Initially I prepped a DVD to try out the built in DVD player, yet due to lack of a remote, we can't get it to play in Chinese mode. We soon gave up and April had a car sick right then. She soon got it fixed by producing a small bag of body fluid. I'm glad that we brought enough plastic bags for all sorts of garbage ;)

With some struggle in the dark finding our rental place, we made it to the 3 bedrooms sweet mountain home around 5pm. In no time, we were enjoying a hot pot feast warming up our tiny to giant tummies and this western vacation home is filled with Chinese aroma all over. We didn't realized how much food we brought for the hot pot. It was too much, so we changed plan from paste for the following night dinner to another hot pot feast. The cleaner will surely need plenty of air fresher to get rid of the Chinese perfume we put in :)

Second day was a hard snowboarding day for the 2 enthusiasts, namely Daddy and Auntie Linda. They both got sore bottoms at the end, but nonetheless they got another 6 pack of beers to compensate. April was in good spirit taking her first ski lesson. I was amazed that she was such a good student compared to the other 4 kids, who just fooling around, keep falling and had the instructor pick them up. Though she probably didn't learn any of the course listed skills. When I got the report card from April, none of the check boxes is marked. The instructor was torn by those 4 years old, she probably need a bottle of vodka after the whole day class. She recommended me not to send kid to ski class until they are at least 7 or 8 years old.

Last day was another long ride home but it didn't feel long. We had another feast inside my hippo. We snacked all the way home, even River enjoyed her first slice of grapefruit, 10 peeled blueberries, 1 mini cucumber, countless chicken drumsticks bites and even a pita chip. This is more of a eating trip than a ski trip, our stomachs emptied almost all the perishable we brought. But most important we had a great time up in the snowy mountain.