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UpdateFeb 17, 03

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Trip 1: 1995, Eric, Start on Wednesday and back on Sunday

Who: Richard, Bill, Dave O, Dave V, Barry, Eric

Car: Richard's bald tire suburan. Alternator went out in Cholame on way back. 4 wheel drive went out on trip up.

Where to: Went to South Shore Lake Tahoe. 2 bedroom condo with Swedish fireplace with no firewood, just used gas.

Ski: Day one at Heavenly, Day two skipped due to snow, Day three back at Heavenly

Highlights:

• Eric stole richard's underwear
• Richard bet his lift ticket in a poker game
• 10x hamburger at InandOut by Eric
• The origin of thunder
• Barry at the last minute
• Barry did double bake

Trip 2: 1996, Left on Wednesday back on Sunday

Who: Lloyd, Tony, Bob G., Dave O, Dave V, Barry, Bill

Car: Dave's Van, and Bob's Truck

Trip: Snowed on way in, had to use chains

Where: Townhome with the dorm upstairs

Ski: Heavenly, Kirkwood, Snow on third day

Highlights:

• Tried to rent snow mobiles
• Played poker with sunflower seeds
• Jim performed the waffle
• Near colison with hay truck coming down from Kirkwood
• Outstanding skiing at Kirkwood
• First fish feed on Friday night
• Introduced movies!

Trip 3 1997. Left on Wednesday back on Sunday

Went to North Shore:

Who: Lloyd, Tony, Dave O, Dave V, Bob, Bill, Jose, Eric

Car: Barry's van and Eric's Jeep (Flat tire and new headlight)

Ski: Northstar, Alpine, half day at Rose

Highlights:

• Hootie crashed and wore a Kotex (from Tony's bag)
• Barry coined are you in? caused by grand marnier and pentagon
• Whatever any naked guy asks in the middle of the night, say no
• Bob did boarding

Trip 4: 1998. Back to northshore.

Left on Saturday, back on Wednesday

Who: Dave O, Dave V, Bill, Tony, Rich, Jim, Bob, Martin

Car: Dave's green Jimmy, Jim's sport

In townhome at kingswood

Ski: Alpine Meadows, Apline again, Rose

Highlights:

• Thunder football
• Went to jacizzi, Rich jumped in lake
• Year of the Bangs yardsale
• Traveled to southshore for fish, met craig
• Jim recycled in a "40"
• Motorcycle grand prix

Trip 5: 1999. Went to Mammoth

Who: Dave O, Dave V, Bill, Tony, Lloyd, Martin, Jim, Eric, Barry, Bob

Car: tony truck, martin truck, smoky's benz, lloyd's van

Ski: Mammoth, June, Mammoth (snow sucked)

Where: Big condo

Highlights:

• Craps table
• Barry struggled at June
• Burned ice chest
• Happy hour at whiskey creek, went to thunder bar
• Rented movies (tony and smokey)
• Eric stayed when we went to June and took closet apart.

Trip 6 2000 Went back to Northshore

Car: First year of thundervan, a brainstorm by Jim (V10 Triton)

Who: Dave O., Dave V, Bill, tony, Bob, Jim, Eric, Barry, Lloyd

Stayed Kingswood

Ski: Northstar, Alpine, Squaw

Highlights:

Eric fell playing football in ventura

Fat Tuesday with waitress at top of squaw

Tony slept in closet

Went to Reno

Trip 7: 2001 Went to Southshore

Car: Second year of thunder van (used hertz, ours got crashed by enterprise)

Who: Dave O., Dave V, Bill, Tony, Lloyd, Eric, Jim, Martin, Barry

Stayed: Private House at Tahoe Keys

Ski: Kirkwood, Kirkwood, Homewood

Highlights:

• Had to chain up on trip in. We tried to 4wheel but they caught us
• Lift tickets (44 @ kirkwood, 25 @ Homewood
• Wheel of Fortune (Hootie hit's the jackpot!)
• Jim brought a prime rib to cook (the beast), Lloyd fired up the tofu stew
• Connection tubes
• New Poker game takes hold (free market). We're still not certain on the rules
• (pure free market versus bidding, versus betting)
• Awesome skiing at Kirkwood, actual fresh powder
• Awesome views at Homewood
• Lloyd gets spanked by the chair as he rushed to make the trip up at homewood
• Best double bake ever due to special stop at San Luis Bakery
• Waterfall stop at Madonna Inn
• Hot tub a hit (combined with snow dives)
• Brazilian girl at Kirkwood a beauty
• Blackjack dealer at Bill's hits on a soft 20 (probably looses job)

Trip 8: 2002 Went to Northshore (Saturday: Wednesday)

Car: Rented thundervan (not the triton v10 but ok): no tinted windows

Who: Dave O., Dave V. Bill R. Tony C. Lloyd, Eric, Jim, Martin, Barry, Bob

Stayed: Thunder house north. Big 6 bedroom house with pool table, hot tub, lots of room

Ski: Squaw, alpine, Northstar

Highlights:

Food: The salmon that wouldn't die, homemade chicago pizza pie by Jim (4 pounds of meat each), double bake of course. Awesome dinner out.

• Pool table a blast two balls stuck in corner pocket: is that possible?
• Pool table not level added a bit of challenge
• Bring on the high priced tequila: wasted on Tonyhe gave it back (and more)
• New skiis: tony, lloyd
• Great weather
• Bear in tree at alpine
• Thunder Sponge Bob comes alive
• Squaw final treats us right: great skiing, Northstar icy but breaks up in afternoon.

Trip 9: 2003 Went to Northshore (Saturday: Wednesday)

Car: Rented thundervan with tinted windows (7:00 am start time)

Who: Dave O., Dave V. Bill R. Tony C. Lloyd, Eric, Jim, Martin,

Stayed: Jollymore house in Dollar Point at Northshore Tahoe. 4 bedroom with plenty of beds. Nice setup with Kitchen, Dining Room and Living Room all one room

Ski: Squaw, alpine, Northstar, Squaw and Alpine were good, Northstar was cloudy and a bit icy.

Weather: Warm and Sunny on Sunday, Monday. Overcast on Tuesday

Food: Martin hooked up some awesome salmon and prawns from Jordanos. The meals were incredible. Tony brought up some Beef and Pork Ribs. Lloyd brought up some great ?. Martin cooked ? on Tuesday night. We didn't go out to eat but had happy hour at Garwoods (great appetizers)

Highlights:

• Hootie's skis broke at Squaw. He had to get rentals.
• Sponge Bob road on the mirror
• Fred the dog (Mika) joined the party (guest of Hootie)
• First year Photos viewed each night on TV (Tony and Bill)
• Yard Sale by Jim at Northstar (caught on film)
• Called Barry at work Monday morning: he outlined how to play shit on your neighbor.
• Nice shots at Squaw at end of day. Snowshoes from "Korbel girls". Got to keep shot glasses and Tshirts.
• Jollymore house worked out fine. Plenty of room but sure missed pool table and hot tub
• Best poker hand: Both Lloyd and Coach had 5 eights (had to split hand).
• Most popular poker hand: Hooties revenge: jacks or better to open but trips to win.
• Most popular saying: Donkey punch.
• Great Poker night on Saturday and Tuesday nights. Went to casinos on Sunday and Monday night. Everyone did fairly well. Coach was big winner. Crystal Bay Closed but will reopen in summer of 2003

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