Lake Tahoe

Before I returned back to work I decided that we were all in need of one last vacation. I really didn't want the stress or cost of flying anywhere so we decided to rent a house in South Lake Tahoe to just relax and get fat. Since it was the down season I found an amazing deal on a place in the Tahoe Keys.

T thinking to herself-"I have the power to make everyone's life a living hell." Lucky for us we did not have a repeat of our trip down to San Diego. We packed up the new Bubba-mobile and made sure we didn't make the same mistakes that we did in March (i.e.: we followed a strict schedule).

And when you have a baby in your late 30s and go on vacation, you ask-no beg-your parents to join you so that you can have a night out with the baby and eat something other than fried rice.

Our first stop on our way there was in Sacramento at The Plum Cafe & Bakery-an exclusively vegan restaurant smack dab in the midtown area. I love reading a menu where I can order anything I want.

Great picture of G-Ro with T who gets easily distracted these days.

View from the upstairs loft-yes, the house had its own little dock as did every house in the development. That's How on the couch & GK on the back deck, singing to the fish.

On day 2 we took a little drive to visit beautiful Emerald Bay.

T slept through our visit to Emerald Bay but made her presence known by screaming the entire ride back to the house complete with full on tears dipping down her face despite me and G-Ro holding her hands in an attempt to soothe her. I started to get a little worried that our sitters may jump ship on us.

But we enticed them with GK's homemade pizza and they agreed to reconsider. One of GK's vegan creations.

The house came complete with a bunch of board games... made for 8-year old children. Here we are playing one. You wear a plastic headband and attach a card that you can't see onto the band. Then you ask a bunch of questions to figure out what is on the card. As soon as How started playing, the game went from funny to hilarious. His card was rat and after numerous questions he genuinely asked if the answer was boweevil.

T spent most of her time just being very cute and practicing rolling from her stomach to her back. She also had a bath in her makeshift tub in the kitchen sink. GK snapped this beauty. After being this cute G-Ro & How were very eager to watch her while we went out. I spent about 15 minutes relaying detailed instructions regarding T's care to my parents that my father patiently wrote down. I left them with about 3 bottles of expressed milk even though we only planned to be gone for no more than 5 hours.

We stopped for dinner at a little Hawaiian restaurant in a strip mall for dinner at Freshies. My dish was both mouth and eye watering-the jerk tofu with mango salsa packed quite the punch in the heat department. We then rushed over to the Casino to see a comedy show. It wasn't that great but it was really very exciting to be out with GK, no baby, and doing something just for pure enjoyment.

Here we are spending T's college fund at Harvey's.

And this is what we arrived home to. Complete with G-Ro and How watching TV on the couch. They gave her a bottle, put her to bed and she slept about 4 hours straight. Operation "we still have a life" was a complete success!

The following morning we took T on a walk to a nearby pond. Then we packed up and headed back to the Bay Area. Again we planned accordingly and T was a champ the entire drive home.