We just celebrated one year of marriage back in August. And a great year it was.
Tim and I are the great outdoors type and so we decided we wanted to embrace that while we celebrated our life together thus far. One of the many wonderful places around us that we don't take advantage of nearly enough is Lake Tahoe. Each time we go there we think to ourselves... "why don't we come here more often?"
Friday 10th - We drove up the 80 to the Indian Springs campground just west of the Donner Pass. It was late in the evening, but we found our spot, pitched the tent and decided a camp fire would be nice. When we go camping and its just us two, we don't normally make a fire, but did this time. The camp ground is seriously right on the side of the interstate, but never would I have imagined that it would be such a soothing sleep with the white noise filling the tent.
Saturday - Packed up the our campsite and headed across the road from the campground to a really great rock face the has anchors. We hocked up our climbing gear and took turns climbing a number of different routes up the rock. It was really fun, we had a great time climbing (and no, we didn't hurt ourselves, we were very careful).
When we were done climbing, we headed for King's Beach, North Tahoe. Had lunch at a burger place called the Char-Pit then took a walk over to the beach. They were having a big event there, i think it was for paddle boarding. Tons of people were out on the sand and in the water. Art and other vendors were lining the sidewalks, there was much to see.
Heading around and down the lake we made a stop at the Eagle Falls area and walked down to Vikingsholm. We had the intention to tour the "castle", but we got there after their very last tour ended, so we walked the grounds and took an adventurous hike up the rocks and boulders next to the waterfall (again, we made sure we were being safe). It wasn't as intense as it sounds.
We finally made our way down to the state line in South Lake Tahoe and checked into our hotel, the Timber Lodge at Heavenly Village. For the rest of the evening we walked around the village, checking out shops, watching families have fun at the mini golf at the pool, etc. We then walked over to get dinner at The Naked Fish (sushi). Its so good! And we ended our evening with taking a dip in the hot tub. It was great spent 20 minutes down there before the security guard kicked us out saying the pool closed an hour ago. lol
Sunday - Took advantage of not having to be anywhere, so we really slept in. The hotel provided some tasty smoothies as a late morning snack, which we made be our breakfast. Packed up our room and went to get lunch at Baja Fresh (one of my favorite fresh mex places).
Our big adventure for the day was driving to Baldwin Beach and rowing our kayak all the way into Emerald Bay to the island that is so famous to anyone who knows about Lake Tahoe. We had a snack break there and explored the little "tea house" and its views of water. We then rowed all the way back to Baldwin Beach. Round trip, were went almost six miles on a weird shaped kayak that is meant for 1 person. Worn out after that, but had fun. Tim made me a deal, he would row the whole way back, if I drove home. Deal! What a guy :)
Monday 13th - The official day marking one year. We went out to dinner at one of our favorite fancy places, the Sierra Nevada Brewery. Ordered specials off the menu and had a lovely desert that reminded me of mud pie with a hint of coffee, but I forgot what it was called. It was a lovely evening.
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