Thursday, January 10, 2008

Snowy Holiday


During the holiday break my family and I took a vacation. We went to Truckee, a city just north of Lake Tahoe in California.


First we looked at the weather because we didn’t want to get stuck on the road. It seemed to be good so we decided to go after Christmas.


We prepared a snack to hold us over during the two and half hours of traveling. When were approaching our final destination, we started to see snow on the side of the road. My nieces and nephew were very excited and surprised. They were visiting the snow for the first time.


Along the way, we also saw snowmen in front of some houses and cars covered with snow.It was incredible, so much snow, I thought!


That day it was predicted to start snowing at 3 pm, and it happened. And the snow started falling down, and we played in the snow. Something that was incredible for me was that when snow falls it really is a snowflake.


We went to a ski area, but since I don’t know how to ski I did tubing. If you want to do tubing, you have to pay 18 dollars, but it is worth the great experience. Going down a hill on a tube makes you feel like you are a child.


I also enjoyed the snow falling on the way back home. The snow was falling really hard and the trees were changing color from green to snow-white. Seeing all the trees covered with the snow is magical.


I had never seen that before, and now I understand why Christmas is about snow, because in my country we are in summer during this holiday.

1 comment:

Richard Blum said...

During the holiday break my family and I took a vacation. We went to Truckee, the north part of Lake Tahoe in California.
First we looked at the weather because we didn’t want to get stuck on the road. It seemed to be good so we decided to go after Christmas.
We prepared a snack for the two and half hours of traveling.
When were approaching our final destination, we started to see the snow on the side of the road. My nieces and nephew were very excited and surprised. They were visiting the snow for their first time.
We also saw on our way snowmen in front of some houses and cars covered with snow.
It was incredible, so much snow, I thought!
That day was predicted to start snowing at 3 pm, and it happened. And the snow started falling down, and we could play with the snow. Something that was incredible for me was when the snow falls it really is a snowflake.
We went to the ski area, but since I don’t know how to ski I did tubing. If you want to do tubing, you have to pay 18 dollars, but it is worth the great experience. Going down the hill on a tube makes you feel like you are a child.
I also enjoyed the snow falling on the way back home. The snow was falling really hard and the trees were changing color from green to snow-white. Seeing all the trees covered with the snow is magical.
I had never seen it before, and now I understand why Christmas is about snow, because in my country we are in summer during this holiday.