Lake Tahoe 28.12.08 - 2.1.09

Even though Lake Tahoe is not very predictable in terms of skiing, we (Petra, Miro, Verka, Eric, Honza, Katka, Jeff and I) risked it and booked a cabin for about 5 days in South Lake Tahoe a long time before there was any snow. Luckily, about two weeks before we drove up, snow fell and we had 6 great days of skiing. I hadn't been cross country skiing for so long I even took one day off from downhill skiing and went with Eric for a nice ride around Echo Lake.
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I kdyz Lake Tahoe neni moc spolehlive na lyzovani, my (Petra, Miro, Verka, Eric, Honza, Katka, Jeff a ja) jsme zarezervovali chatu na 5 dni v South Lake Tahoe dlouho predtim nez byl vubec snih. Nastesti asi dva tydny predtim nez jsme prijeli napadl snih a my jsme meli 6 dni nadherneho lyzovani. Uz jsem nebyla na bezkach hodne dlouho a tak jsem si dokonce dala pauzu a jeden den jsem se jela projet s Erikem kolem Echo Lake.
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San Francisco 27.12. 08

I wanted to see San Francisco in Christmas lights and Eric hadn't walked over the Golden Gate Bridge yet, so these two reasons were good enough for us to drive to the City! Unfortunately the weather wasn't great, walking over the bridge was pretty noisy, and we didn't see too many christmas lights, but in the end it was great day! The sun came up later while we walked toward Baker beach and we managed to take a few nice photos of the Bridge. On our list was also ice skating at Embarcadero center, but the line to get to the ring was so long that we decided to walk around the ferry building instead.
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Ja jsem chtela videt San Francisco ve vanocnim osvetleni a Eric jeste nesel pres Golden Gate Bridge a tak tyto dva duvody nam napomohli v ceste do San Francisca. Nanestesti pocasi nam moc nepralo, prochazka po moste byla docela hlucna a mnoho vanocniho osvetleni k videni nebylo, ale nakonec jsme meli pekny den! Slunicko se objevilo pozdeji, kdyz jsme sli smerem k Baker beach a podarilo se nam tak vyfotit nekolik peknych fotek mostu. Na nasem seznamu veci, co jsme chteli delat bylo take brusleni v Embarcadero centru, ale rada na brusleni byla tak dlouha, ze jsme se misto toho radeji prosli v budove odkud odjizdi trajekty pres zaliv.
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Vanoce - Christmas 24.12.08

This year I celebrated Christmas eve in my appartman with Eric, Petra, Miro and Martin. After a traditional Christmas dinner of fried carp and potato salad, we opened presents, watched Czech Cinderella and just relaxed. Czech Christmas cookies were also there. Katka, Verka, Honza and David also came later!
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Tento rok jsem oslavila Vanoce v mem byte s Ericekem, Petrou, Mirem a Martinem. Po tradicni ceske veceri - smazenem kapru a bramborovem salatu jsme otevreli darky, podivali se na Tri orisky pro Popelku a odpocivali. Nechybeli samozrejme ani ceske Vanocni cukrovi. Pozdeji prisla Katka, Verka, Honza a David na navstevu.
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Lava Beds and Crater Lake NP 19. - 23.12. 08

Just a few days before Christmas Eric and I went to see a national monument, Lava Beds, in northern California. This park is not well-known and has only a few visitor during winter. Lava flows created interesting caves here. We spent about two and a half days walking, crawling and admiring these beautiful formations. Before we went back to the Bay area we decided to head farther north to Crater Lake National Park in Oregon. The drive here was quite an experience! The road was covered with snow so it felt like driving through a snow fairyland! At Crater Lake we were very lucky; although we were told that the Lake is rarely visible during winter we had a great day with blue skies!
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Par dni pred Vanocemi Eric a ja jsme se vydali do narodniho monumentu v severni Kalifornii - Lava beds. Tento park neni moc znamy a pres zimu nema mnoho navstevniku. Lava tady vytvorila zajimave jeskyne. My jsme stravili asi dva a pul dne chozenim, lozenim a obdivovanim techto zajimavych utvaru. Nez jsme se vydali zpet domu, tak jsme se rozhodli zajet si jeste kousek na sever do Oregonu k Narodnimu parku Crater lake. Uz jen cesta sem byl zajimava, silnice byla pokryta snehem a tak to vypadalo jako projizdenim zimni pohadkou. U Crater lake jsme meli velke stesti, i kdyz nam bylo receno, ze jezero je malokdy videt v zime, my jsme meli nadherny den s modrou oblohou.
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Den Dikuvzdani - Thanksgiving 26. - 30.11.08

For the long weekend around Thanksgiving, which in the USA is celebrated on the last Thursday in November, we went to cabin in Truckee, near Lake Tahoe. Instead of the traditional turkey, we had much better goose and duck with cabbage and dumplings, which were prepared by Petr and Lenka. We managed a few small hikes; one of them was even on bikes!
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Na prodlouzeny vikend kolem dne Dikuvzdani, ktery se v Americe slavi posledni ctvrtek v Listopadu jsme vyjeli na chatu k Lake Tahoe, blizko Truckee. Sice jsme nemeli tradicniho krocana, ale zato mnohem lepsi husu a kacenu se zelim a knedliky, ktere pripravili Petr a Lenka. Zvladli jsme par malych vyletu z toho jeden na kole!
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