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It is good day!
Today was the last full day of Tahoe Vacation! I did briefly see some friends from the wedding (it turns out Kings Beach is a _small_ town, or at least the touristy bits are) in passing, but mostly it was just mek and I enjoying a vacation day, in a way I don't normally do vacation days.
(My vacations are almost always like...dance weekends, or going to someone else's home to hang out and help them do things, or conventions. It is very weird to have an unstructured day at a destination where the LOCATION is the exciting draw and not the people or events)
We got breakfast from the other little coffee shop in town (verdict: everything about it was fine, tm), fucked about lazily in the room, and eventually went out for More Mini Golf. I felt like I was doing better, but managed to get exactly the same score on the first course, and a slightly worse score on the second course. Whoops.
The mini-golf course in King's Beach really is just about the platonic ideal though. It has gimmicky structures (a windmill, pendulum holes, a fabulous slot machine hole that has instructions for what rewards you get for certain results, like how three cherries means you take a stroke off your score or whatever), it has "extreme challenges" on a few of the holes (put down your club and kick the ball, use your club as a pool cue, take your first shot seated on the fire hydrant hazard), it has one utterly inexplicable Darth Vader themed hole (everything else is like "vague casino vibes" or no theme whatsoever), it has a huge selection of golf balls to choose from (seriously, like thirty different designs and not just plain colours --I had eyeball, skull and crossbones, pokeball, and magic 8 ball), and it even has "under 10s start here" marked on several of the holes to make it easier for the kiddos.
I think mini-golf is a game that should absolutely be played with intense competitiveness that no one means in the slightest, and having the course itself demand stupid challenges is _perfect_ for that form of competition. I would be thrilled to play minigolf with just about anyone, so if you're headed out somewhere, hmu.
Post minigolf we stopped by a thrift store we'd spotted on our town tour yesterday, where mek bought a stylish hawaiin style shirt, and I bought a pair of ruffly pettipants that I will almost definitely wear to BIDA next time I go. They are purple and white striped and completely ridiculous looking!
We ate lunch, settled a bit more, and eventually embarked on an adventure. Our goal: To walk all the way from California to Nevada! Crossing a state border under my own power is, I believe, something I've never done before, so it was very exciting to make this arduous journey. Also very funny, because I am an east coast gal1 at heart, and you'd think that where the states are small it would be more likely for this to occur. We packed ourselves up and applied sunscreen and bid farewell to civilization as we walked the dangerous trails and attempted to find our way through to another land.
(We walked half a mile alongside the main road while it had sidewalks, then took a parallel road through a gated community in which we walked straight through one open gate, and jumped one closed gate, then walked a couple more blocks over, and then we were there. It was like...a mile and a half?)
It was pretty fun to take the Very Touristy photos. Given how shit the roads back were (no sidewalks or jumping the gate again) we decided to wait for the free TART shuttlebus to bring us exactly one stop and like a mile back into town. This also meant we were dropped off right outside the other ice cream location, and could get that for our walk home.
This ice cream experience was sup-par to the first, but the food itself was perfectly delicious. Home again home again jiggity jog, where we mostly did nothing else? I guess we did one final trip out into town in order to get some dinner. Then home, sit by the lake a bit, pack, and soon bed. Tomorrow we take the shuttlebus to Truckee and the train to Sacramento and then definitely spend at least a day doing no walking around.
Hope you are also having a nice summer vacation, or at least a nice summer.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: Not a gal. But the scansion.
Today was the last full day of Tahoe Vacation! I did briefly see some friends from the wedding (it turns out Kings Beach is a _small_ town, or at least the touristy bits are) in passing, but mostly it was just mek and I enjoying a vacation day, in a way I don't normally do vacation days.
(My vacations are almost always like...dance weekends, or going to someone else's home to hang out and help them do things, or conventions. It is very weird to have an unstructured day at a destination where the LOCATION is the exciting draw and not the people or events)
We got breakfast from the other little coffee shop in town (verdict: everything about it was fine, tm), fucked about lazily in the room, and eventually went out for More Mini Golf. I felt like I was doing better, but managed to get exactly the same score on the first course, and a slightly worse score on the second course. Whoops.
The mini-golf course in King's Beach really is just about the platonic ideal though. It has gimmicky structures (a windmill, pendulum holes, a fabulous slot machine hole that has instructions for what rewards you get for certain results, like how three cherries means you take a stroke off your score or whatever), it has "extreme challenges" on a few of the holes (put down your club and kick the ball, use your club as a pool cue, take your first shot seated on the fire hydrant hazard), it has one utterly inexplicable Darth Vader themed hole (everything else is like "vague casino vibes" or no theme whatsoever), it has a huge selection of golf balls to choose from (seriously, like thirty different designs and not just plain colours --I had eyeball, skull and crossbones, pokeball, and magic 8 ball), and it even has "under 10s start here" marked on several of the holes to make it easier for the kiddos.
I think mini-golf is a game that should absolutely be played with intense competitiveness that no one means in the slightest, and having the course itself demand stupid challenges is _perfect_ for that form of competition. I would be thrilled to play minigolf with just about anyone, so if you're headed out somewhere, hmu.
Post minigolf we stopped by a thrift store we'd spotted on our town tour yesterday, where mek bought a stylish hawaiin style shirt, and I bought a pair of ruffly pettipants that I will almost definitely wear to BIDA next time I go. They are purple and white striped and completely ridiculous looking!
We ate lunch, settled a bit more, and eventually embarked on an adventure. Our goal: To walk all the way from California to Nevada! Crossing a state border under my own power is, I believe, something I've never done before, so it was very exciting to make this arduous journey. Also very funny, because I am an east coast gal1 at heart, and you'd think that where the states are small it would be more likely for this to occur. We packed ourselves up and applied sunscreen and bid farewell to civilization as we walked the dangerous trails and attempted to find our way through to another land.
(We walked half a mile alongside the main road while it had sidewalks, then took a parallel road through a gated community in which we walked straight through one open gate, and jumped one closed gate, then walked a couple more blocks over, and then we were there. It was like...a mile and a half?)
It was pretty fun to take the Very Touristy photos. Given how shit the roads back were (no sidewalks or jumping the gate again) we decided to wait for the free TART shuttlebus to bring us exactly one stop and like a mile back into town. This also meant we were dropped off right outside the other ice cream location, and could get that for our walk home.
This ice cream experience was sup-par to the first, but the food itself was perfectly delicious. Home again home again jiggity jog, where we mostly did nothing else? I guess we did one final trip out into town in order to get some dinner. Then home, sit by the lake a bit, pack, and soon bed. Tomorrow we take the shuttlebus to Truckee and the train to Sacramento and then definitely spend at least a day doing no walking around.
Hope you are also having a nice summer vacation, or at least a nice summer.
~Sor
MOOP!
1: Not a gal. But the scansion.