Company Trip to Lake Tahoe

I'm always happy to reap the benefits of Mondo's company trips. :-) This year we went to Lake Tahoe. Neither one of us had been there before so we were pretty excited to go. Although we hated leaving the kids. It's always nice to get away alone but those critters are always in the back of our mind. But they had a great time at Nana and Papa's while we were gone. 

The only lake I've been to is Joe Pool lake...and it's gross brown lake water. That's how I pictured every lake in America. Seriously. So you can imagine how stunned I was to see Lake Tahoe!  It was beautiful! I felt like we were at the beach...well...a cold beach.  The weather was in the 50s and 60s during the day. 

This beach was part of our hotel.

This was the walk from our hotel to a restaurant across the street that was part of the hotel.

There were tons of these birds around the hotel. I'd never seen them before and thought they were pretty cool!

The view from our hotel room. We didn't get in the pools but we did get in the hot tub.

We sat around this fire pit at the "beach" a lot and relaxed.

That's me in the hot tub. :-)

My souvenir. :-)

We took a shuttle down to another area of the lake and it was so beautiful! Looked like scenes on a post card. It has definitely changed my view of lakes!

It was in the upper 60s that day and people we in the water swimming. Maybe they're used to it. They're nuts!

Of course Mondo had to play golf while we were there. He played with some co-workers and he said the course was beautiful. I decided to sleep in and didn't go with him like I did last year. I also had a massage. It was wonderful. :-)

When we ate lunch at a little restaurant at the lake there were friendly squirrels everywhere. They would come right up to the table and beg for food.

I fed this little guy french fries. He kept stuffing them in his cheeks and begging for more.

Smores by the firepit!

The last night we were there was a celebration party. There was a huge buffet and a DJ. We had fun hanging out with his co-workers that he only sees once or twice a year since they're from all over the US.

This pic was from the night of the awards dinner when he got his pin for reaching a certain level in the company.