Tahoe Vacation Day 4

Wednesday - Day 4 at Lake Tahoe found us sleeping in and enjoying a lazy morning around the cabin. Since we don't have cable with exciting channels at home the kids took advantage of the cable at the cabin. They loved vegging out and watching all the Disney channel shows they could stand.

After making hot dogs for lunch, we headed to Pope beach for some fun in the sand and waves. This is a State run beach ($5 parking). It has bathrooms, bbq's, picnic tables, and shallow water for splashing in. The waves from the far off speed boats were fun to play in. Rick lounged on the beach while I jumped in the cold Tahoe water with the kids. It really was fun. I decided to build a sandcastle fort then ended up creating a sand sculpture (of sorts) of a sea turtle (with help from Katie). Ken was off in his own world creating interesting sand art using pinecone pieces and rocks.


We packed up at Pope Beach and headed over to Richardson Beach (not far) to rent a paddle boat. It wasn't as exciting as we'd hoped and was, frankly, a lot of work to paddle us around the roped of area.

It was the kids' night to decide where to go out to dinner - they chose IHOP (ah to be a kid again) - so that's what we had for dinner - it's legal cause we're on vacation!
























Once back at the cabin Rick and I began to pack things up, while the kids enjoyed one last dip in the spa.

Tahoe Vacation Day 3

Tuesday was a fun-filled day starting with an hour-long horseback ride through the forest and meadows around Lake Tahoe. We went through the Camp Richardson Coral to get the horses. I thought we'd have other tourists on our ride, but it was only our family and the guide. Rick and I were at the end of the line and therefore covered in dust by the end of the trip. Katie and Kenny were nervous, but easily put the ride at the top of their list of favorite memories of our trip.

Katie's horse was named Pokey.

Can you say "Wide Load"?


Kenny's horse was named Marvyn.

After our ride we headed back to the cabin for lunch and to gather our beach gear. Before hitting the lake's shore we visited the Tallac Historic Park. The park is a standing as a testimonial to the wealthy of the 20th century. The estates on on the Tahoe shore and are elaborate (for their time) log homes that were summer get-aways for the upper crust. The grounds had some pretty flower gardens. Rick took some pictures then handed the SLR camera over to Katie (to begin her education in photography). Here are some pictures she took: Can you see the bear?


From the historic site we made a short jaunt to another parking lot and headed to Kiva Beach.
It was late in the afternoon, but the kids made the best of it digging in the rough sand and wading in the shallow *cold* lake water. I lounged on the beach and Rick took out his stunt kite and gave it a spin (it was certainly windy enough).

We headed home for a spaghetti dinner, back out for HUGE scoops of ice cream at Camp Richardson & back to the cabin again for soak in the spa & a good night's sleep. Ahhh the good life.