See,
my parents always try to get us up to see snow at least once during the winter
But we headed East, towards Tahoe, with no intention of making it that far. We
stopped in Placerville, because there're a lot of antique stores and things
there that are fun to look through. We bought my mum the shoes she wanted and
all of us new jackets, then I got 7 new thimbles (including a Wedgwood--it was
$2 cheaper than the Hummel, which was $18, and a little glass one like I've
never seen before. Also a Germany thimble, an Australia thimble, a Japanese
thimble with a bird on it, a little gold one, and a silver one with interesting
marks on them. I really need to brush up on thimble prices so I can better tell
which ones are worth something.), and a book: The Psychology of Abnormal
People from the antique shops, plus Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
and Coraline by Neil Gaiman at the regular bookshop. That made my day;
I've been looking for Coraline for a long time now. Hit another antique
shop--I've never seen a place with such bad stuff for so much. $10 for crappy
thimbles! $55 for an old ice cream scoop?!
We stopped at the Waffle Shop for lunch--never going there again. See, the salad
was almost like soup. It needed to be drained--badly, and so I politely asked if
we could you know, drain the lettuce. Well, apparently, our waitress knew
how to do her job and it never gets drier than that. So my mum, being a waitress
of 40 years, politely asked for a bowl to drain it ourselves. Our waitress said
it wouldn't do any good, and brought it back, slamming it down on the table and
just stalking off. We ended up draining like, and inch of water into the bottom
of the bowl from the salad. We left a note on our check--because she was really
rude. Bitch.
We didn't have much further to go to see snow--a little past Pollock Pines it
was actually snowing, and I had the window rolled down and was grabbing for the
flakes. I was laughing like crazy, only I'm not sure if it was my own amusement,
or the fact that I was so amused that did it to me. XD
They kept saying chains required--we never put them on, so we never had to take
them off, either. Drove through the mountains up to Tahoe. Oh, it was pretty,
and we stopped at the Montbleu so my parents could gamble. I made two snowballs
from the fluffy stuff there! ^_^
Yeah, I'm still two months too young for that--but I saw Ms. Lee! She was the
director at NCS! I mena, I know teachers have real lives and all, but it's so
weird to run into one 100 miles from home, in a casino, in the bathroom. ^^;;;
Anyway, I bought to Superman comics, and hung out at Starbucks until my parents
were done, which was...about an hour. They won over $300, though, so they even
paid me back for my coffee. XD
So then we decided to head home. We do have dog, and by this point she'd
been alone in the house for about 7 hours. So we head around through Reno.
Taking the way that passes Incline Village.
Now, those of you who aren't really familiar with the Tahoe area don't see the
important of that. See, there used to be a little...not really amusement park up
there, the Ponderosa Ranch. Yes, rom Bonanza. Anyway, they closed it down.
Because that road is so steep, so windy, and so icy in the winter that for a
good 5 months they couldn't open. There're markers along the road 10 feet high
so the plows don't run off the road when the snow is taller than the short
markers. It's a bad area, especially at night when you can't really see much of
anything. The chains required signs were flashing, but we never stopped to put
them on, and it was really creepy. I think half of why I was so jumpy was
because my mum kept freaking out, though.
We survived, thankfully, and went down through Reno and stopped off at Gold
Ranch. That was a boring hour. Nobody questioned me falling asleep at the
machine next to my mum, thankfully, so I just randomly hit the button and won
$25. Score for me, right? Only until my mum lost it all. XD
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