day twenty six | south lake tahoe

We said a very sad goodbye to Vegas and flew to San Francisco where we picked up a hire car (there will be a separate post just for the hire car later) and headed out to South Lake Tahoe.  While we were in Vegas we heard that there had been snow out there, so we were slightly worried about needing snow chains but it seems it had all melted before we got there.

Melissa's husband Tony had told us that the drive out there was pretty nice.  And he wasn't wrong.  The landscape changed from high rise, densely populated areas, to flat open plains, to green leafy streets, to mountainous creek lined roads to sheer cliff faces before we reached a beautiful Lake Tahoe.

It was quite 'choppy' when we got there so the pictures we took didn't really do it justice.  Our hotel accommodation afforded us access to a private beach (with about 300 other people) but it did enable us to get closer to take photos.  The lake is surrounded by tiny pebbles so its quite abrasive on your feet and of course to us the water was cold but there were heaps of people swimming.

This is where I'd usually post some lovely pics of Lake Tahoe but you see, Glen's laptop died and with it all of our photos.  What usually happened was Glen would take the photos off of the camera, play with a few of them and then put those on a memory stick for me to post.  But sadly the laptop carked it before he had a chance to do that so I don't have any photos to show you of Tahoe.  The 12 year old computer guru at the Apple Store in San Francisco is pretty confident we can get them off though so we should be able to show you some in a week or so when we've had chance to talk the 12 year old computer guru at the Apple Store in Chermside.

Mechelle