Sunday, August 08, 2004
Nevada!!!
Hey, y'all!! I know ... I've been back East from my trip to Nevada for a week now, but haven't had a chance to catch up on my blog. SOOOoooo... here are the top ten things I did in Nevada:
(10) Had the most AWESOME bison short ribs at a great casino restaurant (Michael's at the Carson Valley Inn). Yes ... I said bison!! The meat was SOOOooo tender and the sauce SOOOooo yummy ... and there was so much that it made for two extra meals. YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!
(9) Went to the Nevada Art Museum in Reno. There was lots of great art, including some wonderful Western US art!! It was great!!
(8) Went to a meeting of my aunt's "mini" quilt guild. Unfortunately I didn't have my own project with me ... but had a great time looking at several ladies' work. Waaayyy cool!!
(7) Drove up to Lake Tahoe one morning ... VERY early. I left my aunt & uncle's house about 4:30-ish, got to Emerald Bay about 5:30, watched the sunrise there, and then drove all the way around the lake ... taking lots and lots of pictures along the way. Got "home" in time for lunch. :-)
(6) Slept next to the window in my uncle's home's "guest wing", with a private view of the Carson Valley. One morning, after the light began to add color to form (ya' know?) ... not yet sunrise ... I saw something ... SOMETHING ... paw across the lanai ... something that was about 40-50 lbs., about 2 feet tall, with a long thin tail, black, looking a LOT like a cat. My uncle says he's never seen one, but that it was probably a panther. A PANTHER!!!!!! Well ... at least I saw the sunrise on the mountains every single morning while I was out there. Things like sunrises make things like mountains change colors. That's an amazing concept to Eastern gals like me!!
(5) Sat in my aunt & uncle's hot tub in their patio room, overlooking the sun setting over the Carson Valley. Awesome!!!!
(4) Took a scenic plane ride over the Carson Valley and Lake Tahoe. My uncle had an unused gift certificate that he had purchased at a silent auction. The flight was about an hour long. Linda Mae was the pilot who took me up, and was wonderful. She flew me over Carson City, Virginia City, we saw Reno in the distance, we flew all over the valley, and then over Tahoe, Emerald Bay, and Desolation Valley. AWESOME!!!
(3) Went to a Basque restaurant, The Overland, which is one of my favorite places to eat in the Carson Valley. There were about 19 folks who came in from out of town to attend my aunt & uncle's 50th wedding anniversary party, and we all ate at The Overland. There was this nasty little incident, after dinner, where two of my cousins won handfuls of quarters at the old fashioned, non-computerized slot machines in the lobby. I have never before gambled ... haven't ever had the desire to do so. But, I thought I'd run a few dollars of quarters through the machine. Nothing. Didn't win on even one pull. I stepped away from the machine ... my mom stepped up ... she put one quarter in, pulled ... and got a LOT of quarters. She put a second quarter in ... and got a LOT more quarters. It was absolutely NOT FAIR!!! Those should have been MY quarters. [sigh...]
(2) My cousin's wife, who is from Thailand, makes the most AWESOME egg rolls around. She came to the house on Saturday morning (the day of the party) and we all messed the kitchen up royally, making a few hundred egg rolls for appetizers. They were absolutely scrumptious!!! YUMMMM!!!!!
(1) Best of all ... I got to spend some time, over two days (Friday and Saturday), with family that I very rarely get to see ... cousins from San Diego (actually Oceanside) and cousins from Seattle (actually Puyallup) ... and, of course, family from the Carson Valley in Nevada. It was absolutely AWESOME!!!
Look forward to Lou Ann reviews of movies and books in the next installment!! :-)
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