May 23 Around Lake Tahoe

 It's so nice to get up and have breakfast with cousins!  We make sandwiches for lunch and we're off to circumnavigate Lake Tahoe.  Due to the traffic back-up we experienced yesterday, we decide to go around the lake starting with going through Incline Village.  Hopefully, that will help us avoid the bad construction traffic.  spoiler alert - it does.  We didn't have to deal with traffic stoppages at all.  

Our first stop is at Sugar Pine State Park where we eat our picnic lunch with a view of the lake.  There are several historic buildings where we peered through the windows to discover old boats.  Some quite simple and others quite elaborate.  One was a racing boat from the 1920's.  A small place that was for the caretaker and a large place that was a seasonal hotel in the 1920's.  Hmmmm. As I go back to put pictures with the text, I see that I was more interested in taking pictures of the lake than the buildings.

Valerie is into Geo Cashing so we went off in search of one.  I found it!  There were lots of little trinkets but I really didn't see anything that I wanted.  We left a little Chinese coin that Valerie had gotten in Chinatown.  There was another one in the Emerald Point area that we looked for but it would involve fording a little stream that was a little wider and faster and full of melted snow than we wanted to deal with.  

Really cool tree

The next stop was up high, looking down on the lake rather than the lake level of Sugar Pine.  Emerald Bay is at about the exact half way point around the lake from Incline Village.  There's snow up here!

It is obvious when we get to the Nevada state line.  CASINOS!  None of us are into gambling so no temptation there.  But, there is an ice cream shop and we give into that temptation.  The Baked Bear specializes in ice cream sandwiches.  You chose the kind of cookie or brownie that you want (you can have two different kinds) and the kind of ice cream in the middle.  MMMMMMM!

Almost back around the lake.  We stop at the grocery store and get things for dinner.  It's always challenging at a grocery store that one isn't familiar with.  Nick makes California Sherry chicken for us for dinner.  After dinner hot tub.  And sweet dreams.