Our First Trip to Lake Tahoe

This past weekend we celebrated two years in California with our first trip to Lake Tahoe. We decided to go to South Lake Tahoe, specifically Heavenly Mountain, and stayed at Lake Tahoe Resort Hotel, which used to be an Embassy Suites. This meant a great breakfast both mornings, a nice pool with a jacuzzi, and free adult beverages in the evenings.

We left Pleasanton Friday morning and were able to beat the snow. The kids ice skated for hours on Friday and we enjoyed a great late lunch at Base Camp Pizza. We had ice cream before heading back to the hotel for swimming.

I pressed Beth hard to let me go skiing on Saturday, but she held firm, so I went tubing with she and the kids. At Heavenly, you take a gondola up to the ski resort. Along the way, you can stop at the observatory for a great view of Lake Tahoe. Tubing was a lot of fun, but super expensive ($30/person for 1 hour = $180 total). We ended up getting 5-6 runs in down the slope. The best part, though, was the heavy snowfall all day. While the snow was fun, it was terrible for building a snowman, so we called it quits and went back down the mountain for lunch at Basecamp Pizza AGAIN! Since we ate a late lunch on Saturday, we opted for ice cream at Cold Stone for dinner.

Click on this picture for a photo story of our trip. Enjoy!

No more trips to Vietnam

Well, last week was a big week for me. I decided to leave FCG and return to work for Coca-Cola Enterprises. I had been talking with the people I know at CCE since late last year about working with them and they finally had a position open up a couple of weeks ago. I'm excited to go back there and work on the business side of the company versus the IT side. I start on Apri l16. I will be working in the Revenue Management Department as the Forecasting & Planning Manager. Essentially I will be the business process owner, facilitator, and coordinator of all forecasting and planning activities within the company. That involves working with all of the regional and corporate business units to ensure that the tools and related processes are thoroughly integrated across finance, revenue management, supply chain, logistics and sales. I will also be responsible for managing all of the support tools and solutions, so I still get to be a Project Manager. This is a big job with lo

Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies

I don't know anyone that loves to bake cookies more than me. Better yet, I get to eat as many as I want. So I decided to create a video of how I make them. It's basically this recipe . To make them vegan: Use 1/4 cup of applesauce (from Whole Foods in the UK) for each egg Use margarine instead of butter Use dark chocolate chips (you can get a 2KG bag of chocolate chips at Costco). Ignore the nuts. Who likes nuts in cookies anyway? Blasphemy! The biggest cautious is to NOT melt the margarine/butter. This makes the cookies too oily and they turn out flat. I've made this mistake too many time. Instead, let the margarine/butter come to room temperature. Enjoy!

Saigon Walking Tour

I was going to put the picture of me with the two Thai twins here, but I thought that'd probably not be the best idea. David, Jeff, Scott & I went on a walking tour of Saigon Saturday. Our goal was to hit as many of the historical places as possible. This will probably come as no shock to most of you, but I was the tour organizer. The pictures from our tour can be see here . - Hotel Continental: Built in the French colonial days, this was a common meeting place for journals and diplomats during the Vietnam War. - Nha Hat Thanh Pho (Municipal Theatre): Built in 1899 as Saigon's Opera House, it later served as the National Assembly (Congress) of South Vietnam until 1975 when it became a theatre again. - Nha Tho Duc Ba (Notre Dame Cathedral): Built in 1880 by the French on the site of an old fort, this is still an active Catholic church. - The Virgin Mary: This is the statue of that was reportedly seen crying. - Buu Dien Trung Tam (Central Post Office): Built by the F

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