Tahoe - fun, cute, adventurous, beautiful, gross, nightmarish
I took a day off on Friday and Greg and I headed up to the cabin for a nice 3 day weekend away with family. His parents, sisters, hubbies, kids made it up there. It was fun, cute, adventurous, beautiful, gross, nightmarish all in one. Our weekend recap below:
Fun - we went up late Thursday night, and on Friday woke up to hit golf balls at the driving range, and with pointers from everyone on how to hit the ball, I hit some pretty ones, some super ugly ones, and didn’t make contact with the ball at all at times. I wore my elastic jeans for the first time and it’s amazing the room it gave me for my tummy. I almost look slightly prego here (I’m at 12 weeks now!):
Then we headed to have lunch overlooking the golf course and it’s beautiful views (Tahoe Donner golf course), and I had a portobello mushroom burger and it was pretty yummy with it’s balsamic vinegar sauce and enjoyed eating lunch with April, Justin, Tyler, mom, dad, and Nathan
closeup of baby Tyler
mom and dad
Nathan checking out the menu
me and Greg with golf course behind us
Then we came back, and crashed for a bit (everyone is sleepy or sleeping in this pic)
Cute - Baby Tyler
Greg’s mom did great with golf
Greg’s dad taught me how to swing at the ball and showed me how to golf
Jon, Justin, and Greg golfed well, l and I didn’t get to get a group picture (thought about it in retrospect) so I’ll move onto the next day. It was a fun day of golfing with everyone! My first time:)
Adventurous - day 2 we took the rhino, lexus, and dirt bikes to a trail to get some scenic views… Greg was the driver of the rhino, and I was his useless navigator, and mom rode as a passenger in the back
Jon, Justin, April on the dirt bikes
We started on the open road
Nathan, dad, Les and Tyler in the Lexus
we got to Sardine pass and saw a scenic lake view
Baby Tyler
Nathan riding with Auntie April in the back of the rhino
Leslie took over April’s dirt bike
And we headed into the wilderness again
Justin, Leslie, Jon, me and Greg decided to take the rhino and dirt bikes all the way home (everyone else was going to meet us at the cabin in the Lexus because it wouldn’t be able to make some of the narrow road we were going to go on) - and on our way back we stopped by another lake view and took pics
Jon and Les (that’s dirt from the dust from the road on Jon’s face, not face hair. hehe)
me and Greg
Then we went into some brushy areas like below, some were even narrower than this, and we were hit by lots of brush. This was the gross and nightmarish part. We took a little stop at one point after we went through the brush, and Greg noticed a fluorescent green worm on him. I have a MAJOR phobia with worms. I HATE worms. Out of anything that crawls and squirms, WORMS are the GROSSEST. Anyway, Greg was playing with the fluorescent green worm in his hand (nasty) and I was really grossed out. So, I asked him - Greg, check my back and see if there are any worms on me. So, he found a dark brown inch worm on my back. YUCK!!! And of course he shows me how inch worms move on his hand. Thanks hubby… really thanks. Anyway, I looked at my seat before I sat down, and there were about 5 worms on the bottom of the seat!!! WHAT??? yes!!! ew!!!! EWWWW!!! EWWWW!!!! So, I asked Greg “Can you PLEASE take these worms off the seat? i can’t sit on this!” and I kept brushing at my body to make sure there weren’t any other worms on me. So, I get back into the seat, and we encounter more WORMY TREES/BRUSH
So, there’s no way around it obviously, and we have to go through bushes like that again, and they’re hitting us and the rhino because the rhino is wider than the road (Greg got whipped by a branch and a welt formed on his arm, that’s how much we were getting hit). So, I looked down… scared I might see worms on my lap. Guess what? LOTS of WORMS (fluorescent green and brown) SQUIRMING ON MY JEANS!!!!! I started SCREAMING and freaking out and trying to brush them off my pants. Just up ahead, I saw Les, Jon, and Justin waiting on their bikes for us to catch up to them. Having a bit of pride, I squelched my screams, and kept brushing at my pants. They didn’t hear me freaking out, but boy was I freaking out…
anyway, after we got through the NIGHTMARISH brush area (I won’t be doing that again anytime soon) - we saw pretty views and waters…
And I kind of sort of forgot the pain. That was the longest ride ever (total rhino driving distance was 60 miles for the whole day). I think it was about 2 hours or so of riding back to the cabin the last 20 miles. It was cool experiencing it once… ONCE:)









