Later on Friday night (after dinner with the Navins), I headed up to Tahoe with the ladies (Wendy, Gail and Sandy). On Saturday morning, Wendy, Gail and I got ready to hit the slopes and the comical and unfortunate part of the morning ensued: One of my ladies (name rhymes with "Tail") dropped my helmet full of goggles and mitts out of the car while loading up stuff and then one of my other ladies (name rhymes with "Bendy") backed up over some of it with her Suburu. The goggles and mitts made it out okay, but the helmet was thrashed.
Despite the damage, I proceeded to wear the helmet as we tackled the groomers on Nevada side at Heavenly. It ended up okay, though my helmet sits crookedly and there's a crack. Time for a new helmet!
Look! Wendy on skis!:
What looks like minor cosmetic damage to the helmet (crack is on the other side):
By the time we got back to the cabin in the afternoon, the boys (Will, Abe and Robert) were at the cabin. Yay, more people.
The boys had schemed up some weekend fun in the form of a ginger beer tasting. You may or may not know that their drink of choice is the "Dark and Stormy", which consists of Gosling's dark rum, ginger beer, and lime. I never knew about all the different types and makers of ginger beer until the boys started drinking DNS's.
We made spaghetti and meatballs (beef and fake-beef!) for dinner, here's Sandy admiring the vat o' beef:
The Ginger Beer Tasting process:
- 15 ginger beers to taste
- 5 rounds of 3 ginger beers
- Tasting consisted of ginger beer alone, and ginger beer in a DNS
- recording tasting notes on the ginger beer alone (e.g. spiciness, color, carbonation, sweetness, etc.) and how it combines with Goslings and lime
- each taster gives a score (1-10; 10 being really damn good) for the ginger beer, average of all the scores gave overall score
- overall ranking after all scores are tallied
Round 1: Cock 'n Bull, Buderim, Maine Root
Round 2: Vita Malt (ick, that was NOT ginger beer!), Bundaberg, Stewart's
Round 3: The Ginger People, Reed's Original, Goya
Round 4: Fentiman's, DG Jamaican, Regatta
Round 5: Reeds Extra Ginger, AJ Stephans, Schwepps
The top three: Bundaberg, DG Genuine, Cock n' Bull.....no surprise there...
Big kudos to Abe and the boys for arranging the ginger beer tasting, I didn't think we'd make it through all 15. More details on the tasting and the notes will probably be found on Abe's blog very soon...
On Sunday morning, it was a sweet treat to wake up to 2 feet of fresh snow...pow day!!!
It was such a great pow day, laps of Powderbowl trees were my fave of the day. Great way to end a weekend (and possibly my ski season...boo!).
All in all, great Tahoe weekend!
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