The gondola ride is nuts. I'm not fond of heights, but being enclosed isn't too bad.
Screw that chairlift thing, though.
Most of the way up there's an observation deck so we got out to sightsee.
It was WAY colder than down below, and snowing a little.
Gotta represent.
Up at the lodge level it was snowing harder for a little while.
Time to show off our hats:
Sylvia found a SPURS hat by Adidas at Academy a few weeks ago.
I wanted something a little wilder, or a different SPURS hat, and that took longer to find.
Then, at a different Academy we found mine:
A mohawk AND Spurs logo?
And half-price?
More than I could have hoped for...gonna wear it to a game someday.
We had planned to just sled on the innertubes, but it had gotten icy and windy so they shut that down for safety reasons. Bummer.
Then we chatted with the staff and got a full refund on the gondola rides, so we're going up again tomorrow and now all the girls have decided to ski.
If anything I'll sled, or just take pics and hang out at the lodge.
We spent a couple hours there today and it was nice if you like $10 pints of beer.
(I had a sandwich in my pocket + a flask of bourbon, so there)
The previous gondola photo is pretty tame.
A lot of the ride was more like this:
Tonight we went to dinner in the nicest restaurant at Harrah's.
Also pricey but good.
Then the girls played in the casino.
I was the big winner--put $3 in a machine and won a bottle of Aquafina.
Quit while I was ahead, proving that beginner's luck is real.
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I'm glad (?) nobody told me how close we are to Yosemite Nat'l Park--might have tried to work it into our plans. As the crow flies it'd be like driving to Round Rock but because of the Sierra Nevada mountains, more like driving to Dallas but without the wide and straight nature of IH35. Crap.
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