Los Angeles 10. -13. 4. 2009

On Friday my spring break started. This year I wasn't really organized and I didn't have any trip planned. Amy, math teacher at the same school as I teach offered me to go with her to visit her cousin in Los Angeles. It was very relaxing long weekend, full of chinese food and one small trip to Hollywood.
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V patek mi zacaly jarni prazdniny. Tento rok jsem ale zavahala s planovanim a tak jsem nemela naplanovany zadny vetsi vylet. Amy, ucitelka matematiky na stejne skole, kdy ucim ja me pozvala abych s ni jela do Los Angeles navstivit jeji sestrenici. Byl to pohodovy prodlouzeny vikend, plny chinskeho jidla a jednoho maleho vyletu do Hollywoodu.
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Kaiser Wilderness 28.-29.3. 09

Winter backpacking is always great experience! This year we went to Kaiser Wilderness - area between Yosemite and Sequoia NP. I have never been there and I probably won't stop being surprised how many beautiful places are in Sierras! Martin, Ryan, Lakshan and I left on Friday evening, and slept on our way in Fresno. In the morning we drove about two more hours, picked up permits and around noon started to hike. The lower part of our "trail - nontrail" went through parts of snow and bushes without cover. After lunch we got to the higher parts with snow cover, even though quite wet. We found spot for camping around 6 pm, made fire, had dinner and around 9 went to sleep. In the morning Martin and I wanted to climb one of the surroundig hills so we could have some nice view. Ryan and Lakshan stayed at the campsite. It was about one hour climb, but it was worth it! The way back was quite easy and fast. We tried to follow our steps since Lakshan lost his snowshoe extension, but we didn't find it. We were back home around 11 pm.
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Zimni tury jsou vzdy skvele! Tento rok jsme jeli do Kaiser Wilderness - oblast mezi Yosemite a Sequoia NP. Nikdy jsem tady jeste nebyla a asi se nikdy neprestanu divit kolik nadhernych mist je v pohorich Sierra! Martin, Ryan, Lakshan a ja jsem vyjeli v patek vecer a prespali po ceste ve Fresne. Rano jsme jeste popojeli dve hodinky, vyzvedli povoleni a kolem poledne jsme zacali nasi turu. Spodni cast nasi cesty - necesty vedla snehem a krovim bez snehu. Po obedni prestavce jsem se dostali do vyssich poloh, ktere byly pokryte snehem, i kdyz docela mokrym. Misto na stanovani jsme nasli v 6 vecer. Udelali jsme ohen, veceri a kolem 9 vecer jsme sli spat. Rano Martin a ja jsme se vydali na jeden z okolnich kopcu abychom meli lepsi vyhled. Ryan a Lakshan zustali v kempu. Byl to asi hodinovy vyslap, ale stal za to! Cesta zpatky byla jednoducha a rychla. Snazili jsme se jit ve vlastnich stopach, protoze Lakshan ztratil jednu nasadu na sneznice, ale nenasli jsme ji. Byli jsme zpatky doma kolem 11 vecer.
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Petra - Miro Narozeniny/Birthday 28.2.09

Petra's birthday is 2nd of March, Miro's 9th of March, so Eric and I decided to suprised them with birthday cake. Firstly we were planning to drive up to Concord, but because Miro's house were too crowded we persuade them to come to Fremont. I baked typical Czech birthday cake and we put all 63 candles on it!
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Petriny narozeniny jsou 2. Brezna, Mirovi 9. Brezna, tak Eric a ja jsme se rozhodli je prekvapit narozeninovym dortem. Nejdrive jsem planovali vyjet do Concordu, ale protoze Miruv dum byl preplnen, presvedcili jsme je, aby prijeli do Fremontu. Upekla jsem typicky Cesky narozeninovy dort a dali jsme na nej vsech 63 svicek!
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San Francisco - Sausalito - Tiburon 22.2.09

I wanted to do this ride for a while, so Eric and I took bikes and on Saturday went to San Francisco. First ride was to the Fremont Bart station, then from Embarcadero we rode to the Golden Gate Bridge, Sausalito and Tiburon from where we took ferry back to San Francisco. It was great day, over all we did about 70 km!
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Tuto "projizdku" jsem chtela uz projec pred nejakou dobou, a tak jsme se s Ericem v sobotu vydali do San Franciska. Prvni cast cesty byla k vlaku ve Fremontu, pak z Embarcadera jsme jeli k mostu Golden Gate, Sausatlita a Triburon. Odtud jsme jeli trajektem zpet do San Francisca. Celkove jsme jsme ujeli asi 70 km!
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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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