California Weekend Warriors

Since Dara got her snowboarding legs on at Whistler, she's been prodding me about going up snowboarding again. One of the benefits of living here is that if you're crazy enough, you can make a marathon day trip up there. Since they had 2 feet of new snow as of Thursday night, we took the plunge and drove up and back on Saturday. It's always weird driving up to go snowboarding this time of year, because mixed in with the snowbound are the cars trailering boats as you drive through the very, very green Sierra foothills on the way through the Gold Country. The roads were dicy, but no chains required. Snow conditions were great. Garrett stayed home, and Kyla was miffed. Dara did a very elegant cartwheel with her snowboard attached, and she's a bit stiff today because of it. Since the grass in the yard is growing like crazy, I had to polish the weekend off with mowing and weed-eating.