Hoes in TaHOE

Anxiously awaiting the arrival of my girlfriends in Tahoe. After seven years, this annual trip has become something to look forward to each summer. There is nothing I love more than lounging in the condo after a long day of sun with my family and best friends. Some of my favorite memories come from the I drink, I smoke annual trips. Because Max so fittingly named the trip in 2005, I’ll start with my favorite Max mems. Only Max, post knee surgery could convince an 11 year-old Maddie Reischl to tow him on a raft hundreds of yards out into the middle of the lake. And surely everyone remembers the Max performance of “Listen” from Dreamgirls. Who can forget Lauren, asleep and dangling over the side of the boat, thrown from the raft on the last rapid and Max jumping into save her? Then of course there are the Finzy one-liners. “David, chug 10 beers and I’ll buy you some chicken wanngsss.”

And then there was the epic rafting trip of 2008. Kiefer, David, Anjuli, Natasha, Marinna, Lynsey, Alina, Ashley, Adam and myself sent down the river with a 30 rack, a handle of tequila and a bag of pretzels. As the raft ricocheted from rock to rock we lost people, belongings and our precious margaritas. I still have a vision of Marinna drowning down stream with only the top of her straw hat floating on top of the water. I see the Nanda sisters being tossed from the boat and Kiefer screaming “save the margs!” As we exited the boat, we left 30 empty Coors Light cans, zero margaritas and a bunch of soggy pretzels. Nine of us left haggard and badly battered and one, Lynsey left angry the rest of us were in too poor shape to drink more at the River Ranch. Classic.

All girls this year. Hence, I Drink, I Smoke Part VII: Hoes in TaHOE.