Merry Christmas!

 

Fall Break in West Shore, Lake Tahoe

 We rented a big house in Meeks Bay on the West Shore of Lake Tahoe

we went to Stateline - this huge chair is made of skis

cool bedroom with pool table and beds in the wall

Camel Races in Virginia City

 

This was our first time going to the Camel Races in Virginia City

There were ostrich and zebra races too

it was pretty funny watching all the human-animal interactions

the races were only about 10-15 seconds, and the animals didn't always 

want to rush to the finish line

they had some fun skits and audience activities between each race, one

of them was having some little kids chase after ducks

this was when they did a little skit with the Grinch and Santa and had different 

sections of the audience sing different songs, it was pretty funny

This was Teresa's race

Teresa's camel behaved pretty well and trotted around but didn't go directly 

towards the finish line, so another camel got there first

Andrea came and sat with me

it was all sold out

Andrea and Brent got tickets in the shaded bleachers, but my ticket was for the sunny bleachers, 

so I had to sit by myself for a while

This gang got to sit in the VIP tented bleachers

We bought some seats for Nan and Melvin as a present for Nan's birthday

food trucks

It was a really fun show - totally worth it!

they had a cool banner out front

Making ornaments for the Nevada Christmas Tree

 

We met up with Andrea in front of the Carson City Museum to make some ornaments for 

the Christmas tree that will be displayed in the nation's capitol. 

They had multiple crafting tables with lots of paint markers and 

slices of tree trunks, wooden and plaster and plastic shapes and 

stencils, beads, glue, rocks

Smokey the Bear was there

i was trying to figure out what my plan was

Andrea decided on a mining cart painting on plaster, and I just focused on 

red and green colors for mine

Keith painted a pre-moulded shape 

they had paint markers and pieces of wood, plaster and plastic shapes

lots of really creative ornaments

some were pretty big