Road Trip: Goodbye Tahoe

When we were living in CA, we went to Tahoe just about every winter.  We wanted to make sure on our road trip to swing through, this time in the spring!

The first thing we did was take Norman to check out a waterfall.

If it looks like he hates sitting on my lap, that's because it's true. He just could not get very sure footing on the rocks by this fall. However, he did have pretty sure footing in the snow.

It was just a really beautiful area.

Next we went to, surprise surprise, a beach!

This one was rocky, though, and that water was icy cold. When we got here, I warned Eddy not to throw the tennis ball further into the lake than he wanted to go to retrieve it since I know Norman doesn't like to swim when the water is cold. Next thing I knew, Eddy was stripping off his pants to get a ball that went too far out!

Oh, that Eddy!

In the afternoon, we found a beautiful little trail down by the Truckee River.

Eddy climbed up on this river rock.

And you know if Eddy did it Norman would have to do it too.

With all of this excitement, it wasn't too log before Norman decided he had enough excitement for one day.

Don't worry, though. By early next morning he was back at it again!

Goodbye beautiful Tahoe! We will miss you!

Next up: Napa and the end of the road trip!

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Super Bowl Snowventures

Eddy's employer hosts an annual ski retreat in Tahoe and for some reason we can't remember anymore, we didn't make it last year.  This year, though, with Super Bowl 50 happening just a few miles from our house we thought it might be a good time to get the heck out of Dodge and enjoy some fun and sun in the snow.

The drive was predictably breathtaking.

The first order of business when we hit Tahoe was for Eddy to do some downhill skiing at North Star.

We learned last time that I have no aptitude for downhill skiing. What I do apparently have an aptitude for is reading the first volume of the Divergent Series while Eddy skis and becoming super obsessed with it so that on the day that we drove back we spent the entire day reading the whole first volume together and now we're both pretty into it. But I digress.

Day 2 we took a spectacular drive around Lake Tahoe to the Nevada side.

That's where we did our first ever snow shoeing!

Turns out, snow shoeing is my favorite winter activity! You get to get out in the sun and snow and there is very little risk of seriously injuring oneself. Also, when you get tired from hiking at 8,000 feet elevation, you just lay down in the soft, fluffy snow.

Bonus points for pretending that you're making a snow angel.

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We're Not Young Anymore

The rest of the country seemed to have an awful lot of snow days this year.  Not so in our neck of the woods.  That's fine by me, but Eddy craves snow.  So he was pretty excited about his annual company retreat in Tahoe. The drive in (from our sunny and 70s home town) was spectacular.

When we got there we geared up for some snow fun.

We circumnavigated a very steep hill.

And attempted to sled down it.

I say "attempted" because what actually happened was that we crashed and burned.

Every. Single. Time. In fact, at one point, Eddy went face first into the snow, scratched up his pretty face, and destroyed his shoulder for the next few weeks. We're not young anymore.

We also tried our hand at downhill skiing.

Eddy is clearly more graceful on the snow than yours truly.

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