Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Stephanie's House, Truckee, CA, Part III
September 14-16, 2006
Most of our days in Lake Tahoe, we just relaxed. The highlight of our visit was really just hanging out with Evan and Stephanie, and getting to know them. That may seem like a weird comment, but in the twelve or thirteen or how ever many years Brian and I have been together, I think I have only seen Evan maybe four times, and then with the happy but distracting presence of various family members. He and Stephanie are both great and seem to be a real team. How cool is it that they make dinner at home, then watch old Star Trek episodes? Very.
Zorah had a lot of fun playing with Rex the dog and Slick and Sleek, the cats. Her favorite thing may have been when she and I ran and walked around the loop on which Stephanie's house is situated. We ended up with four dogs running with us, fighting for a tennis ball, and tearing up pine cones. We would throw these huge pine cones to the dogs who would tear at and worry them with their teeth, and she would laugh that big belly laugh that kids have.
Zorah had a lot of fun playing with Rex the dog and Slick and Sleek, the cats. Her favorite thing may have been when she and I ran and walked around the loop on which Stephanie's house is situated. We ended up with four dogs running with us, fighting for a tennis ball, and tearing up pine cones. We would throw these huge pine cones to the dogs who would tear at and worry them with their teeth, and she would laugh that big belly laugh that kids have.
On Saturday, we went to a Renaissance Faire. I had been to one a long time ago, and thought Zorah would enjoy it. It wasn't like the one I had been to, however. This one was strange. It seemed like a lot of the "attractions" were fenced off places where people in generic "medieval" costumes would sit around and drink unknown substances out of goblets. I had a feeling that there has formed a very insular Renaissance Faire community which just travels around the country in their medieval clothes and says "thee", "methinks", and such to each other, tolerating the local visitors in order to support their habit. Maybe they are what happened when Jerry died. I don't know. It was a more than a little uncomfortable for me, and Stephanie thought it was a bit weird too.
Still, we stayed for the joust, which was pretty entertaining. Their goal was to break their lances, rather than unseat each other. The armor was pretty impressive, but the rodeo ring detracted a bit from the whole experience. There were only two knights since one had been injured, along with two or three of their horses. Eh.
We decided that night that we would depart Tahoe and head to Vegas. Though it had been a wonderful, relaxing stay, it was time to move on. So the next morning, with many hugs and e-mail address exchanges, we set out.
Still, we stayed for the joust, which was pretty entertaining. Their goal was to break their lances, rather than unseat each other. The armor was pretty impressive, but the rodeo ring detracted a bit from the whole experience. There were only two knights since one had been injured, along with two or three of their horses. Eh.
We decided that night that we would depart Tahoe and head to Vegas. Though it had been a wonderful, relaxing stay, it was time to move on. So the next morning, with many hugs and e-mail address exchanges, we set out.
