{"id":3436,"date":"2017-11-21T09:40:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T17:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=3436"},"modified":"2017-11-21T09:40:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T17:40:30","slug":"tahoe-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/tahoe-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Tahoe Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I not-so-subtly alluded to in the title, we spent that weekend in good ol’ Lake Tahoe.\u00a0 I have to say we prefer visiting there in the summer time when it’s a little warmer, but it was an enjoyable weekend all the same.\u00a0 It wasn’t too<\/em> cold, and the traffic was definitely more tolerable than the summer months.\u00a0 We didn’t do anything out of the ordinary, just sort of enjoyed the sites.\u00a0 We did have a very nice dinner on Thursday, at Chart House<\/a>.\u00a0 We usually go to Riva Grill for our “one nice dinner out” but took the recommendation of a local for something different, and it worked out quite well.\u00a0 It’s basically a Landry’s, which puts it dangerously close to our “chain restaurant” black-list, but we decided to give it a go anyway.\u00a0 Donette and her mom enjoyed the prime rib, and I had an ahi tuna dish that was quite delicious.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, I had a very similar dinner last time we were at Riva and they utterly destroyed it, so Chart House is a little higher on my list now.\u00a0 We also did the requisite shopping rounds, took a trip to the must-see Emerald Bay (I never get tired of that view,) and did no small amount of relaxing.<\/p>\n

We were in Tahoe Thursday through Saturday, getting back home later in the afternoon.\u00a0 Sunday was mostly eaten up by a trip out to Carmax in Roseville to look at a new (well, used) sled.\u00a0 We have been a one-car family for over a decade now, and honestly it works out just fine 99.7% of the time.\u00a0 But for some reason (bad judgement most likely,) I recently decided I just really needed my own set of wheels.\u00a0 You know, for those 1\/2-dozen days a year when it rains and I can’t easily get to work.\u00a0 Sigh.\u00a0 Well, whatever the reason, I got this idea in my head several weeks back and I’ve been shopping ever since.\u00a0 For the most part I stuck to the Carmax site, which I must say I am now a fan of.\u00a0 This is the third car I looked at, and it’s just a really easy process.\u00a0 The first two were fails, one I missed out on by dragging my feet, and then when I saw this last one I was hooked.\u00a0 It’s four years old, but as close to new as you’re going to get without paying the new-car price.\u00a0 So, while it was a bit unfortunate her mom had to suffer through an hour of paperwork on her vacation, I went ahead and picked it up that day.\u00a0 And, as you read it on this page right now, if I only put 1,000 miles on it in the next year we’re going right back to the single-car garage.<\/p>\n\n\t\t