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The vacation was good. It still felt kinda funny going on vacation when I don't really have a "job." And if taking care of the baby is my job, then I didn't really take a vacation because she came too.

I dunno, but it was fun.


Let me illustrate Lake Tahoe, CA/NV...


If we had gone on a hike, I could have taken this photo.
Babies don't make good hiking buddies, so instead we walked the doggies around the cabin-y neighborhood.



I think it was the city of Chicago that started this trend of civic-art-animals. They had various artists decorate/design cows and then sprinkled them about the city. San Jose had art-sharks a couple years back (they're gone now, I guess they returned them to the sea). And Tahoe has bears. Quality fiberglass bears just asking for you to take your picture with them. I didn't do that, but somebody took this one.



If we had been big spenders, we would have gotten a motorboat like this. But c'mon, $100 for an hour of making sure my husband, who can't get in the water and my baby who can't swim, don't fall overboard didn't make fiscal sense.
But I tell ya', when the babies get older, I'll be the skipper of one of those boats, and Dad can't chill on the beach with his book while we cruise.
We did rent a paddleboat. $15, much better price. Plus, I don't think a paddleboat has flipped in the history of mankind. The baby was happy for about 20 minutes and then it was a game of who's gonna hold the cranky bug and who's gonna paddle like crazy back to the marina.



Okay, this is the only one that would be impossible for me to have taken myself. This is the Nevada stateline in the 1960's. Swingin'!
Now that Harrahs is MUCH bigger. Kevin and I willingly lost $40 in their shiny, blinky, plinky, smokey casino. I did get a vanilla milkshake out of the deal, so I guess you could say we just paid alot for that milkshake.
After we left, Aurora got little stars tattoo'd on her foot at the Lake Monster Parlor next door to Harrahs. Now we're matchy-tattoo-sisters, although I only have one star. I would have got a second one, but I'm preggie. :p

Most of us on the trip kept contemplating how one could live year round in Tahoe. What do all those people do for money? Is the snow maddening? Would I live in constant fear of bears, wolves and pumas?...okay that last one was just mine.

Tomorrow I will have real photos that were taken by me or more likely Aurora on our trip. They all have the bug in them so I'm saving them for Tuesday...