My fellow first year MFA actress buddy, Christine recently celebrated a birthday. I missed her birthday during the week, so I planned to take her out to dinner this weekend.
Think bigger, you say? Well okay.
Classes haven't started yet and she had a weekend without the kids, therefore we decided to make more of the weekend and drove to Lake Tahoe to hike and camp. Really, it just came out of suggestion of drinking hot chocolate and brandy in front of the fire.
Jen and Lachlan would be proud.
My last camping experience was around Cherokee, NC and ended in a rainstorm with me in a tent surrounded by water. Lachlan tried to awaken me, but since the rain was so loud (and I was a tad intoxicated), I almost slept through he and Jen trying to escape to dry ground. Thanks to Bill Murphey who opened his Unto These Hills cabin and allowed us to take over his living room.
The drive is about 2 1/2 hours from Sacramento to Lake Tahoe. As usual I got a tad carsick and was very happy to back into a nice spot at the campground and get out of the car.
We set up camp and decided to head back into the more touristy part of town. And just because we could, we crossed the border into Nevada and drove past the casinos. All this while munching on a splurge of KFC popcorn chicken and cole slaw.
Christine is an experienced camper and I spend the last day or so trying to pull my own weight. The views on the hikes were just breathtaking. Thank god I had the good excuse to stop and oohh and ahh, just so I could catch my breath.
My clothes all smell like campfire and yes, my mani doesn't look so good -- but aren't you all jealous?
1 comment:
incredibly jealous...
-pout-
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