Stephens' Stories: Lake Tahoe!

Just running a month behind on blogging....here is the Lake Tahoe trip post! On September 6th, we flew to Lake Tahoe to stay at MiMi and Big Deal's time share condo. We had been once before in June 2012 when Austin was 10 months old. It is such a gorgeous place and the weather was wonderful, lows in the mid 40's, highs in the mid 70's. Each way we had flew to LA and changed planes. Campbell did awesome on the flights and Austin did OK. It is a long way to just sit in a plane seat for a very active and strong-willed 3 year old. We had about 3-4 tantrums each travel day. Oh well, we survived. The condo is 2 bedrooms, 2 baths so Campbell ended up sleeping in the kitchen, basically. David would go to the casino (across the parking lot in the Hyatt hotel) each night with MiMi and when he would come back, he would wake me up and we would carefully move Campbell's pac n play out to the kitchen/den. He woke up once each night we were there and we didn't want him waking Austin up too. I was fortunate to be able to run in the cool temperatures along the sidewalk that has views of the lake. Austin loved throwing rocks in the creek on the property with MiMi and Daddy. We got to go swimming in the heated pools too. One of the new discoveries for Austin was mini golf. There were 2 old-school mini golf courses (putt-putt) nearby so we ended up doing this 3 times. He LOVED it! I wish there were these kinds of courses nearby in Houston. Most of the ones I know are indoors and fluorescent or have crowds, which doesn't work with a 3 year old who likes to play each hole 3 times and doesn't care about the order. We ate out some - Austin's restaurant across the street from the Hyatt, The char-pit burger joint in Kings Beach, and the Red Hut in South Lake Tahoe. We also cooked some at the condo and on the grill. Austin loved playing golf in the grass just outside the condo. We went to the playground by the lake a few times and got our feet wet in the chilly water, while looking for rocks to throw (seems to be a theme). It was a fairly low key trip (no rafting, hiking, paddle boarding, kayaking, etc going on due to the ages of our children) but we had a great time in a beautiful place. These activities will come when the kids are older. Thank you MiMi and Big Deal for a great trip with lots of memories!