...they're in Reno (right now Lake Tahoe actually) - our visitors that is. Last night, my Aunt Eileen's daughter Gretchen(see earlier post about my Aunt Eileen) and Gretchen's husband Robert and son Ben flew in from Kansas for a visit :) We had a very fun day, despite the smoke stifling us here again in Reno. Wednesday night, after a relatively clear day, it rolled in again in the evening like dense fog spreading itself over a coastal town :( But, they had a great attitude about it, and we decided to just pretend it wasn't happening. It was hard not to be disappointed all day though, that most every beautiful view was filtered through smoke - sometimes even completely blocked. Oh well, what cha gonna do?
After we had visited for a while (with my mom, Janene, Josie, Jamie and Julia here too), and caught up with each others lives and then some, we went to the lake and went to the beach at the end of Ski Run in South Lake Tahoe first. You can walk all the way out to the buoys and never have your head below water. Ben really loved how clear the water was, and he and Ella and I went quite a ways out.
Then we headed over to Emerald Bay. They were all overwhelmed by the beauty of the drive and the views, even though we couldn't quite see anything very clearly. Robert especially loved the part of the drive right before you get to Emerald Bay, and on either side of the two lane road is water. Emerald Bay on one side, and Fallen Leaf Lake on the other. The road is elevated enough that if you were to sneeze violently, or be too distracted by the beauty, you could accidentally drive right over the edge and kill your entire family. There are no guard rails. That's my favorite part of the drive too, lol. I think I'll have to video tape that sometime - while someone else is driving of course.
Then it was getting dark, and we headed back to where they are staying, and stopped at Big Daddy's Burgers for dinner and ate outside in the smoke :)
Sophie, Ella, Eva and Ben overlooking Emerald Bay
Eva, Sophie and Robert
Eagle Falls at Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe
Smokey Sunset at Emerald Bay
This picture doesn't at all do justice to the color of the sun - it was red
Beautiful tree roots at Eagle Falls
4 comments:
That is the coolest photo of the tree and the roots..........you are quite the photographer!
Love your blog and miss you like crazy!!! Trish gave me the link. How is Sophie? Who is her teacher this year? I would love to catch up with you. bxtrand.blogspot.com
oh my, your girls are so grown up, rachel! great blog! (very entertaining . . . just like you). i'll never forget when you were telling me and some of the gals at church that you LOVED to watch that orange county chopper show . . . all of a sudden i had a split-second image of you all decked out in leathers on a custom chopper, hair flyin' in the wind!you are a HOOT! i'm going to have to check back in often!
Wow, so nice to hear from both of you, Harlene and Carlen!
Hey, I've moved on to some classier trashy shows, but I'm not telling which ones ;-) That first season of OCC was great!
Sophie is doing well Harlene, but when I told her school going to start about a week before school started, she cried her eyes out and said the 2nd grade was going to be too hard :( She almost made me cry, and I didn't know quite how to comfort her, because it is going to be hard for her. So finally I said, "lets' go get a new backpack!" That cheered her right up, and so far, she's liked her new class, and she hasn't been sad. She has lots of friends look out for her :)
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