Woohoo! We just got back from Reno and South Lake Tahoe and we had so much fun! We needed to get away just the two of us for awhile. Our life has become so routine and we never have the money to do fun stuff. This trip was sooo worth the money we spent. We drove up to Reno Monday night and stayed at Circus Circus. Tuesday morning we drove into Virginia City which is the largest historical landmark in the nation. The whole city is a landmark :). We got our old time pictures taken and we toured an underground mine that's in one of the casinos. We also stopped to take a peek at the suicide table (so named because all of it's owners lost so much money they commited suicide) and the silver dollar lady who's dress is made entirely of silver dollars. I highly recommend Virginia City to anyone who loves history and is in the Reno/Carson City area. Oh yeah! This feller was doing a gold panning thing and he taught Andrew how to pan for gold! Andrew is alllllll excited about his 4 flakes and he's begging me to let him buy some pans to take out to the creeks. I think I'm gonna let him go for it. What the hell - maybe we'll strike rich :).
Wednesday we headed to South Lake Tahoe where we rode the paddle wheel ship the M.S. Dixie. It went out to Emerald Bay which is quite possibly the most beautiful water I've ever seen in my entire life. It was freaking amazing! Again, I highly recommend it.
So here's the shitty part of the trip. We stop at Harrah's to do some gambling and we sign up for the player's club thinking that we might win more with a card. They gave us this little box thing and said that it MIGHT light up within 2 hours and if it does we can come back to the desk to claim our prize of anywhere between $5 and $1000. We didn't pay it much attention because of course we knew we wouldn't win. We checked them before we left and of course they weren't blinking so off we go. We get home and low and behold the fuckers are both BLINKING!!! So I called the freaking number on the back of the card and of course they won't talk to you over the phone and they want you to go to their desk. There's no way we're going back up there because if we do you KNOW they'd only be $5 a piece. The shitty part is that since we didn't go back up there you KNOW they are $1000 a piece. We just can't win for losing! But hey, we had a great time and we have each other. What more could you want right?
Oh, by the way Carinie - the picture on the top of my blog was taken at Andrew's parents house in Colusa on the day of the Almond Festival.
Here's some pictures:
2 comments:
Look at those rain clouds behind andrew on the boat picture. those were the ones that were hailing on me :P
Ok, you're officially making me crave a Lake Tahoe and Reno trip!!!!
I'm glad you guys had such a great time, you totally deserve it!!
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