good girls go to heaven, bad girls go wherever they want...

... at least that's what a fellow student said tonight when we shared some wine (who happens to be a law professor at a European university).

However, that's not how she behaved on the other day of the weekend. She either wanted to pretend as if she was a "good girl", or she was simply tired. Actually I've ever seen her go really wild. At least in my standards. :)

So, a field trip was put together for all participants of the program: we visited Lake Tahoe (for those of you who speak Hungarian, it is to be pronounced "tahó". Imagine when I explained this to some people). It was a fairly long bus ride, took about 2.5 hrs, so we started early on Saturday. Needless to say what Friday night was about. (Quite surprisingly, most bars were literally empty, even the most frequented ones. But we managed to find the one place where all Davis people were squeezed together. It was alright but not what I would call a great night out. The interesting part was finding a place called Little Prague. The doorman was a Ukrainian guy, and since we had one Ukrainian with us, everything went pretty smoothly. Not to mention that finally I got to drink real BEER. Not that cr*p they sell here as beer. Each one is "light", so has no real substance in it.) Mel Gibson (pictured below) joined us for the trip despite his heavy participation in last nights events.



Now, Lake Tahoe, and even the road to it, was simply marvelous. I tried to upload some pictures to the Flickr address below (do you still remember?) but it rejected them with some error message, so now I'm looking for a different space for my photos. Someone on the bus described the place as Southern Norway in the summer: loads of hills, pine trees and scary altitudes.



When we got to the actual lake, which is like five times the size of Balaton (I guess) it was funny to realize we were no longer in California. We passed the state border and stopped in Nevada. Probably the casinos on the way should have tipped me off. :) The shore was really amazing, some of us did a little excursion (I found the water was kinda cold) exploring the surroundings. Some rented boats or jetskis, but I didn't feel like drying my hair after a swim with the wind at 80mph. I was really amazed that driving a 12 person motor boat did not require a license. Not exactly the safest approach but our guys were pretty excited about it.










Today was merely about relaxing. Should have done a lot of reading for next week but I just don't care right now. Even though I'll have a simulated exam on Tuesday.