It's been over 2 weeks since my last post - almost half of Dexter's life! It's been very busy the last couple weeks; I'm typically up at 6:40am, get myself and Cam ready for the day, then out the door at 7:20am, drop off Cam at daycare, head to the office, back home by about 6pm, have dinner, bathe Cam at 7pm, get him in bed and asleep by 8:30-9, usually fall asleep with Cam and wake up at 9:30, then do whatever household cleanup/chores, then it's usually past 10pm by the time I get to get on the computer, and the past couple weeks that time has been devoted to doing work rather than blogging or posting photos... but anyways, enough about me.
We're in the middle of a one week vacation to South Lake Tahoe right now. We're staying at the Marriott Timber Lodge which is a ski resort and is located in a little ski village centered around a big gondola that heads up the mountain to the ski runs. It's not yet ski season, but past the summer tourist season, so it's pretty dead out here. The ski village feels deserted but it's actually kinda nice - we've got the run of the place and there are no crowds anywhere. Cam has loved climbing all over the rocks and jumping everywhere, and he yells out "Ah-bot!" (his word for 'robot') when he sees the gondola.
Sara and I were here three years ago (gosh I can't believe
how young we looked before our kids) and enjoyed riding the gondola; too bad it's closed til ski season starts this time, we were looking forward to taking Sara's mom and kids up there.
We've had fun so far; the weather's much cooler here compared to San Francisco so we've enjoyed sitting beside some firepits at night while munching on smores. We walked to a beach which was completely empty - it was so quiet and peaceful, I could have gone down for a long nap in the sun - which Cam did. We've also gone on a nice hike through the woods, and we saw salmon attempting to swim upstream to spawn! That was seriously cool. Spawning season runs from mid September to the end of October, so we only got to see the tail end of it - the resort concierge described it perfectly: "you'll probably see more dead than live fish."
We're only halfway through our trip so far. Tomorrow we're hiking to some waterfalls, so I'd better get to sleep and get some rest.
Enjoy the pictures!
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