Lunch in Sunnyside

After our hike we drove up north towards Tahoe city. It was very busy because of the 4th of july weekend. But eventually we made it to a place called Sunnyside. We had to wait an hour to be seated, but we could either drive back home which would have been an hour or drive around and find out it would be everywhere so pact. So we decided to stay and enjoy our view, which was spectacular and it was worth waiting, it was nice and sunny with some wind and the lunch was nice too.

Hiking to Eagle Lake

After a day relaxing we decided a hike would be a good change. So we hiked Eagle Falls Trailhead of which I understand from articles on line is the shorter hike and is called the upper Eagle Falls. We seem to have missed the more beautiful one which is the lower Eagle Falls.

Well I have to say that for us this was a very nice hike and we enjoyed it very much. It was about one and a half hour hike.

The encounter with a little chipmunk trying to steel some food of other hikers was a treat too. We only had water, unfortunate for the chipmunk. They are like rats around here and very quick too.

4th of July at S Lake Tahoe, CA

4th of July was for us a day to relax. We stayed at home putsing around, went to the pool for a dip and around 7.30 we had made reservations for 'Riva Grill' restaurant. This is a restaurant along the lake. We had chosen this place to watch the fireworks on the lake.

Well this was worthwhile and we even had a great dinner. Beautiful and great atmosphere! It was crowded with people everywhere, even on the lake. It was as if you saw a small town lit up on the river. Great view!! See the pictures and judge for yourself.

HAPPY 4TH of JULY!!!!

A walk in one of the many Nature preserves.

On the left the community pool (Thaoe Tirol is the area here called) where we have been going every end of the day to relax, swim and cool off. It's very amiable. We just walk up the street and there it is. The people are friendly and very supportive here.

As you can see on the other pics, beautiful Nature preserves. What more can I write about that.

Today was just a reading day. I almost finished my book, 'Hunger Games'. It's a good read. I will buy the next one for sure.

Tonight we will have dinner along the Lake to hopefully see the fireworks because of 4th of July (for the ones in Europe). If not there we will watch it from where the pool is located.

Tubing and hiking

This was 2 days ago. We went up with the Gondola to first go for a hike. It was OK. Not very spectacular since we just walk on a dirt road and see the same things. We can imagine it's a great place to ski. Unfortunately not all of the chair lifts were open.

After our hike we went tubing as I had written before. This was fun. It doesn't make any sense, but that's why it's so much fun. As soon as I am able to download and share the movie of this I will post it.

This is it for now. I will also add a few pictures from yesterday.

In the gondola

I realize that yesterday we didn't post anything.

We went up with in the gondola to check out the view. This was spectacular! Tomorrow we will go up again and hike a bit and of course we will go tubing too, Kyran loves it and his Mom will probably too. As long as we have fun!

I'll add a picture of the view from the gondola. Unfortunately I wasn't able to put a video on the blog.

It's Bearific here

As the title already says, it's bearific here. Check out the pics. Everything you possible can think of is with bears. even the passwords are Bearadise or they would say, It's Bearadise here. Well it is like paradise here, but mainly also because it's our vacation and everything seems like paradise then.

Today was an easy day. As I wasn't feeling to well, it was better to take it easy. Stan watched the European Soccer finals, I went in town to do my feet and Kyran played Midget golf with us. We were all happy!