Cruisin' on the MS Dixie. It takes a trip across the lake to Emerald Cove and goes around Emerald Island where the Tea House is.
The Fireman Museum in Virginia City.
We went down into a Mark Twain Museum. He worked for this newspaper or magazine here in Virginia City before the great fire of 1875. Most of the town burned to the ground, but this underground printshop survived. It was here that he got his pen name, but he had to leave suddenly. He had written an article that wasn't too popular with some of the nobles since it had slanderous things to say about some of their wives....that's how the story goes.
Sweethearts behind bars...
If you click on the above pic, you may be able to read the history of the table below, and find out why it's called suicide table.
A beautiful view from the the balcony outside the Fox and Hound. A little place we went for a couple meals. It was pretty close to our Condo so when we didn't feel like going very far we would drive down there and bring the food back with us.
One fun thing to do was to take a carraige ride. We picked it up in town and they rode us all around the back streets of town we never would have seen otherwise. We saw Sonny Bono's former residence, and Joe Montana had a place built there. His was easy to identify with the statue of a football player in the yard.
"When you go to Tahoe, you gotta ride the Gondolahs." That's all we kept hearing and about how awesome they were...'what a view' they would say. Well they shut them down for 3 weeks... 3WEEKS during the year for 'scheduled' maintanance, and that's when we were there. We were so looking forward to going on them too.
Views of the lake. This is Emerald Island in the middle of Emerald bay.
Here we are with the island in the background.
This is the view from Zephyr Cove, just before we boarded the MS Dixie.
On Saturday, we took a tour around the lake. It began to get cloudy and look like rain so we had to hustle through.
Another attraction that is closed for the winter. I guess we will have to come back in the spring or summer to see all that Tahoehas to offer.
And just when you think you've seen it all...It was raining when we went to bed that night. Al we heard all night was the patter of the rain. In the morning it finally seemed quite so Peter took a peak outside. This is the railing outside our room!!! Isn't it BEAUTIFUL!
EH?!
I'll pose for one more picture, but you better hold me tight, 'cause it's cold out here.
Aaaaaahhh! much better cozied up by the fire. It was great to have a fireplace in our livingroom.
We went out a little later and played in the snow. We built a little snowman. There was plaenty for us to build a bigger one, but time was tickin'. It was Sunday and we had a long drive home.
This is the name of the resort we stayed at. Tracy's parents were generous enough to loan us their timeshare for the week.
A couple hours down the road and it's still snowing. Peter had only seen it snow a couple times before, so He REALLY didn't want to leave.
Had to get a picture of the snowplow. They were able to keep up with the snow, and didn't have to close any roads down...at least not before we made it out. ;)
