Hooters & Highways (Tahoe '09- Day 1)

Matt, Luke and I headed up to South Lake Tahoe last Monday, March 2nd, for a little sleep, snow and sledding. What we ended up with was little sleep (darn dry high altitude air!) CONSTANT snow (many, many feet) and one blissful, exhausting hour of sledding. More posts with pictures of all these activities (except sleep- that would be weird) will be up (hopefully) throughout the week.

We didn't leave San Jose until late morning on Monday so we planned on stopping in Sacramento for lunch. We ended up having our greatest adventure of the day trying to find a restaurant in the nasty weather and then ultimately where we decided to dine- Hooters.

I had never been there and was curious and we figured Luke would enjoy the attention he would get from their extreme friendly female waitstaff. We were right on the mark.

Luke started off with some crayons and was happy. But that was nothing compared to the arrival of...

AMANDA!

I could not get him to even acknowledge me/the camera. All eyes on his new friend.

This was 100% not staged. He took it upon himself to kiss her. What you can't see is his mouth full of (very dry) chicken tenders. What a very special moment for Amanda.

So if you're ever in the Rancho Cordova area, stop into the Hooters off highway 50 and say hi to our future daughter-in-law, Amanda. The food completely sucks (I felt bad for Luke and Matt and my chicken sandwiches were no better- so so dry) but now I know- nobody really goes there for the food. Go figure.

We got to Tahoe around 5pm and it was quite the journey up there. It basically rained the whole way alternating between pouring and then sprinkling but on already snowy roads. Matt did an amazing job of driving and we didn't even have to use chains (thank God for 4 wheel drive!) Luke was a happy camper- he travels well during daylight hours but turns into a gremlin at night- but we were so happy to finally be there without incident.

My mom has a timeshare condo at the Marriott next to Heavenly so we got settled there and had dinner downstairs. By the time we got done eating, it was snowing. I was so excited (I'm a snow novice) but little did I know that falling snow would be all we would see for the next 24+ hours.