Eric's Wedding Trip

Our big family summer trip this year revolved around Brian's cousin Eric's wedding. We left Boise on Saturday July 25th after Faiths final swim meet. The meet was a fast one so we were on the road by 11am. With lunch, energy drinks, Starbucks, and road snacks on hand we turned on a good Spotify playlist and hit the road. It was an easy drive to Reno where we leaned yet again that any hotel room that costs less than 100 is not worth the savings.  Wow. Downtown Reno is not a nice place! The kids wanted to swim but when we checked I there were police officers kicking people out of the street side pool so we quickly made other plans. We made our annual pilgrimage to Scheels instead where the kids picked out first day of school clothes. 

After a pretty crappy nights sleep we headed to Kim's house in Mountain View where the kids hung out at the park and Jake got to see his Instagram girlfriend Ava. Kim and I got some time alone for coffee and shopping then we had nice dinner at their house.  

The next morning, after a few phone calls putting out fires about Dad at Paramount, we drove to Livermore to re-live some old times. We went to Nations for breakfast and drove by the old house. We wandered around downtown a little but and pointed out places of interest from our old life to the kids. We got to the Perottis house around noon and hung out by their pool all day. They have three boys and all the kids all played non stop. Brian and Jake left for the Giants game (a Christmas present from last Christmas) at 5 and the rest of us continued to hang out at the pool, watch the game on TV and eat take out. It was so much fun to spend time with Lisa and Dave and they were awesome hosts. We are hoping they get their butts to Boise soon- after all it has been 9 YEARS!!!

We drove to south Lake Tahoe the next day and spent the night at a good hotel right by Harvey's. We wandered down to the beach and then around Heavenly where the kids played a round of mini golf while we went shopping. We had a nice dinner outside then later came back out for dessert. The next morning we found a beach and hung out for a few hours while the kids played in the sand and we read our books. We did a crappy job packing so we had no beach chairs and no cooler so we spent a bit of money to rent chairs and pay for drinks. Weather was perfect. 

That afternoon we headed to the cabin where the Crebar's and Mary arranged. The kids re-united with their cousins and had a blast sleeping together- all 8 of them- in the large bonus room upstairs. We had spaghetti dinner and a fun round of apples to apples. The next day we headed to Zephyr Cove beach to see Auntie Sue and check out the wedding spot. The cousins played most of the day, like always when on a beach our children mostly spent their time digging holes!!! Only negative part of day occurred when I realized that a can of spray sunscreen had leaked all over my cell phone which necessitated a trip to the AT&T store where we were told there was no way to fix it. Ugh. So I now have a new iPhone. Brian and I were in charge of dinner that night, so taco night it was. 

Callen latched onto Tanner.  Faith latched onto Kylie and Jake hung with Christian.  They all get along so well. Hoping the Crebars also make a trip to Boise soon!