Leaving north lake tahoe region

After passing the exam Paul and I went with one of our condo mates down to Jason's beachside grill for a celebratory burger and salad bar. It was a VERY cold night so we took a taxi down. It was amazingly cold in the restaurant, although they told us that booth seven should be warm, there was a frigid draft coming from somewhere! Brrrrrr. It was hard to get into anything, but the salad bar was pretty good! Big American style salad bar with choices of normal lettuce and stuff as well as various pasta salads potato salad and about twenty dressings! Burger was lovely too!
Then we stood outside freezing our bits off waiting for a taxi which never showed! Thank god for iPhones, as we found another taxi firm who turned up promptly, and was cheaper than the previous one too!

After that silly fiasco, we decided a car would be necessary to move our stuff back to the south of the lake.

We spent more than we should on renting a car, but due to another big storm heading in, we decided 4 wheel drive would be a wise idea.
So, we loaded up and headed south. We wanted to be sure of the plans for the first official day of work on Friday, so we wandered back to the California base. After being told nine am in uniform, I managed to get the voucher for discounted equipment, so we toddled off to see what there was.
Unfortunately the 50 percent is based upon retail base price. There are loads of sales already on, so less discount than it looks. I decided to demo some skis before buying anything. Then back to our place to drop our bags and skis.

We got some Christmas cards and decoration gifts to open and headed back up north for the big celebration party (back at jason's) the theme was E or A for educating adventures, and some people really went to town on their costumes! But anyway, awards were given to our examiners, and it turns out that everyone passed, so some pretty happy people all around.
This morning, another early start, to take our condo mate to Reno for his long slog of a flight back to Melbourne. He just came to get his certification. Then back to truckee to return the car. After enterprise brought me back, the mad condo cleaning had to begin!! Check out by eleven am and we all hoovered and scrubbed and packed up everything.
Then the northstar bus turned up to drive us back to South Lake Tahoe for the remainder of the season!