...we took a little road trip!
We piled in and had snacks galore (two hours worth)! Dad treated us to a falafel, hummus, olives kind of dinner! And the kids were ready to permanently move into our hotel "house"!
All just to be here. With other LLL leaders. Can you feel the warmth in the room? An evening ice cream social with dancing and cape making, and then a day and a lovely potluck lunch with these amazing ladies and their families. New friends made and lamps filled.
And then we headed home...
Oh yea we were crossing the Sierra Nevadas... Donner Pass... kind of looks like Narnia.
5 hours latter we made it over the "The Hill".
We piled in and had snacks galore (two hours worth)! Dad treated us to a falafel, hummus, olives kind of dinner! And the kids were ready to permanently move into our hotel "house"!
All just to be here. With other LLL leaders. Can you feel the warmth in the room? An evening ice cream social with dancing and cape making, and then a day and a lovely potluck lunch with these amazing ladies and their families. New friends made and lamps filled.
And then we headed home...And then we tried to put on our chains, yes chains!
Guess what... they did not fit. Do you know how expensive chains are on the side of the road in the must chain up area? Yea, painful.
So we headed out at 20 mph, very bumpy.
Oh yea we were crossing the Sierra Nevadas... Donner Pass... kind of looks like Narnia.
5 hours latter we made it over the "The Hill". We slid, we slided, we held our bladders, and we burned ALOT of gas!
But it was worth it.
And every one wants to go again next year!! We'll just stay another night!!
That does look like Narnia! Sounds like a great crunchy trip :) I hope there are LLL meetings in my future!
ReplyDeleteI'll guess you made the run to Auburn, CA...nothing like waving to the folks in Truckee, CA as you head up the Sierra Mtn around 7000ft. with snow everywhere on the 80. :)
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party wasn't a good party in 1846
What a fun adventure...minus the chains. I'm glad you got to go!
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