Hot weekend

A much needed weekend getaway - time to just relax and do NOTHING. Ahhh...

Time for our annual weekend trip to Lake Tahoe with my hubby's parents. With my new work schedule, we timed it so that I had last Friday off, and my husband was able to take the day off too.

We arrive in Tahoe in the afternoon - and it was a bit overcast, but warm nonetheless. I hopped into the pool so fast, it was a definite record for me. I'm one who needs to sit by the pool for 20 minutes, at least, while my feet adjust to the temperature first. It's quite frustrating to my husband who keeps telling me, the water will feel warm once I get in for a minute. Yeah, yeah, yeah - I do it my own way.

Anyway, within 10 seconds I was in that warm blue water. An hour and a half later it started to rain, so I got out. We were treated to the most spectacular lightening storm I've ever experienced. Long streams of electricity burst from the dark clouds and actually touched ground for a few seconds before disappearing. The thunder roared a few seconds later.

Back in the dryness of our condo, we watched the rain come down in buckets, lightening bursts every few minutes, and the rumble of the skies. Fabulous. Luckily, our power never went out - even though it did threaten and flicker a few times.

The next day, I can only describe it with one word. HOT! It was so hot. Of course, I didn't know that a heat wave had spread through California - so techincally the 80 degrees I was in was not that hot. But there was not a speck of breeze in the air. I was in and out of the pool all day - I couldn't even really sit down and read my magazine, because as soon as I lay down, I was burning up again and had to go back into the pool. What a rough life, huh?

The rest of the afternoon, I spent catching up on my knitting. I am making another little surprised for another friend. We had a wonderful dinner at a local casino restaurant. The food itself was ok, but the AC was fastastic. Ah... The rest of the night, we suffered in our hot bedroom - our little fan working overtime to cool us down. We couldn't open the windows, because mosquitoes were coming in.

Our last day, Sunday, we got up early and went to the pool again. One of my mother-in-law's friends has a boat, and they were nice enough to take us out on the lake. My hubby did some tubing. I decided to stay dry - the lake water is just a tad too cold for me.

After a couple of hours lounging by the pool again, it was time to pack up and get ready to go. We were supposed to have lunch with my brother-in-law and his family, but they came late. By the time they arrived, we just scarfed down lunch on our own and headed back to the city.

The heat was insane!!! When we drove through Sacramento, it was 117 degrees!!! Are you kidding me? The hottest I've ever been in was 105 in Vegas one summer. We stopped in Fairfield to get gas. It was 114. We were happy to get back to our cool condo back in SF.

Monte was very happy to see us. In fact, he actually ran to us when we called him from down the hall. Nothing like a nice warm, furry, purring welcome.