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    This weekend was the first annual entertainment council (EC) retreat. Eight of us from the organization which brought you such shows as The Shins, The Pixies, and Tiger Army (among many others) last year piled into two cars and went off to snowie Lake Tahoe for the weekend.


   Planned departure time was 3pm. In true ASUCD spirit, not a soul was to be found at the rendezvous point at 3:00pm.  So I bollocksed around for an hour, and everyone was finally there by 4:30.


the 80

    Two guys went up in a pickup truck, the other six of us piled in Amie Gutierrez' SUV.  This meant four people in the back like sardines for the two hour trip up (and back).  Below is a picture of THREE of the people in the back of a car.
sardines


takin care of business
Brandon "Collie" McCauley accidently went into the girls restroom at In-N-Out.  In his defense, the Placerville In-N-Out has the mens and womens rooms in reverse of normal In-N-Outs, which are all exactly identical.  After doing this he proceeded to make a phone call on a pink phone so I had to take his picture (it was Janice's, his own battery had died due to the excessive amount of (mafia related) business he'd already conducted via phone at that point).

parking lot adventures

   Arriving at the cabin, we found our keys to be useless.  We called the owner who called a locksmith, after the cleaning lady could not be reached either.  During the wait which was I believe a very long hour (felt like two.. maybe it was?), we discovered a sled and snow hillock in the parking lot.  Then a bunch of us went off to safeway to get supplies while we waited.

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    We thought it was funny that condoms were "conveniently located" in the alcohol aisle at longs.

ice jousting
    There were massive icicles all about.  Here is another picture of massive icicles of death being used in the cabin.  And another:
death by icicle

makin bacon

   The ladies prepared a scrumptious breakfast saturday morning of potatoes, bacon, eggs and waffles.

 
breakfastrama

   As you can probably tell, this is a badly assembled panorama of three pictures.  Two of them are alright on their own merits, the middle and right.

now in colour!

observe the nuclear apocalypse outside the window

   Brendon spent much time being studious.

trench warfare   As you can see, the snow was actually quite deep.  It didn't actually snow while we were up there though.

Lake Tahoe
   Saturday evening we went to the place where the ASUCD leadership retreat is annually held (they have a bigger budget).  I didn't go to the last one because it was halloween weekend, but I've gone before. Here we caught the end of an awesome sunset and took millions of pictures.

diagonal pictures don't work well on computers
and there was wandering about

and maybe some drinking
drinking of snow that is

    then we went into town, tried to make and tried to make a buffet lose money on us:


    after a valiant effort at this we played some laser tag and got chased off an ice-rink:


    and finally returned home (to the cabin) to our own devices (and a fireplace!).


    x2

view from sardineland
    Sunday morning we once again piled ourselves into the carmobiles and returned to Davis.


In Other News
   Internet has been so bad today I couldn't even roust up a connection here in the study lounge.  One of the two PCs down here has a virus so I stole its  land-line and had internet for awhile, but eventually even that went down (?!).  At the moment, however, it is back.

    Also, I just wrote this entry in photobucket(.com).  Hopefully it doesn't like lose the whole thing, because I think I might weep bitter tears of sadnes after spending all this time putting all this together. [it just edited it together crazy]


Related
    More Pictures: that were too similar to pictures seen here to include in this photo essay, but there are a lot of pictures of the sunset which I think are kind of nice.
    These Pictures: as a slideshow in photobucket.

Date: 2005-01-18 11:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sivart13.livejournal.com
never have I seen a more comprehensiver photo essay

why, it is like I am there

truly you have mastered internet

getting your money's worth

Date: 2005-01-18 07:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emosnail.livejournal.com
Thank-you [livejournal.com profile] sivart13, it means a lot. Its the least I could do considering that it was heavily subsidized by YOUR student fees. (=

Date: 2005-01-18 05:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thiswallflower.livejournal.com
in fact, that essay was so comprehensive, one wonders if Kris Fricke has found the time to write comprehensive TOPIC SYNOPSES that are due today at 9pm for that club he's in.

just a thought.

Synopsii

Date: 2005-01-18 07:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emosnail.livejournal.com
It takes time to write Such Synopses, because you see, I need to document every step of the way with the comprehensive photo essay I'm doing about synopsis writing.

Re: Synopsii

Date: 2005-01-18 10:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thiswallflower.livejournal.com
Let's hope this comprehensive photo essay doesn't involve the coroner taking pictures of your fatal wounds when the Secretary-General finds her inbox empty this evening.

Or we could wrap up the essay with a nice picture of you and Guy spending the weekend together on the same dais. Now that would be hot!

Yes, I like that.

oh *SNAP*

Date: 2005-01-19 03:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] basicallyasap.livejournal.com
Such STRONG sauce.

I think she is funnier than you it is true. :O

Mmm waffles!

Date: 2005-01-18 06:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] basicallyasap.livejournal.com
Amie is so pretty!

I love this picture.

Re: Mmm waffles!

Date: 2005-01-18 07:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emosnail.livejournal.com
Really? I thought it was kindof silly.. doesn't seem a particularly good picture of Amie or Vanessa and nothing exciting is going on.

(link in your comment was broken)

Re: Mmm waffles!

Date: 2005-01-19 03:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] basicallyasap.livejournal.com
They are suprised/bothered at your taking a picture of them, I can identify with that. Besides I think amie looks particularly adorable in that picture.

Re: Mmm waffles!

Date: 2005-01-19 07:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blushbystander.livejournal.com
thanks for the compliments ::modest giggle:: i have more pictures from the retreat. i just loaded them on my comp. im not as promt and they aren't as cohesive as kris' photo essay; but i got some sweet shots of him in his one of a kind mowhawk bennie which i constructed myself . he recorded the weekend quiet nicely.

Re: Mmm waffles!

Date: 2005-01-19 08:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emosnail.livejournal.com
I can't wait to see them. I love pictures. (=

Date: 2005-01-18 10:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] suddencasualty.livejournal.com
I am indeed jealous.

Jealousjealousjealous.

Fear the icicles of death!

Date: 2005-01-22 12:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] benten.livejournal.com
yay for pictures

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