We are up in the Sierra Nevada near Lake Tahoe for the week, staying in a big house we rented with three other families we know from preschool. I have pictures, but I sent my camera out with Laura this morning on an all-day hike, so the pics will come later. One of the dads is a scout troop leader and knows exactly where to take kids in the mountains around here.
It’s been magnificent so far. The weather couldn’t be any perfecter. The lake, which can be ice-cold, has had all summer to warm up (at least the top 3 feet or so) to an almost swimmable temperature. Yesterday we took an inner-tube ride down a few miles of the Truckee river, which drains Lake Tahoe out into Nevada. Some of the kids saw a river otter. There are two other kids in Lilly’s age group and four in Laura’s, so no one is sitting around with nothing to do.
My excuse for missing the hike today was that I had to drop Mary off at the train station in Truckee so she could get back to San Francisco in time for work. Teachers and staff are supposed to show up tomorrow to get things ready for school to start next week. I’m sneaking a bit of time at a coffee shop in Truckee to catch up on the chaos at work, which hasn’t died down just because I’m not there.
Theo (Dad) Kuster | 23-Aug-06 at 9:36 pm | Permalink
Nice blog. Did you get the icon? Will it work?