This Thanksgiving Levi and Chelsey invited us to celebrate Thanksgiving at the home they bought this summer. Mom of course had to up the ante a little and so we ended up convincing Jarom and Allie to abandon their families and come with us. We flew to Sacramento late Wednesday night and spent Thanksgiving Day at Levi and Chelsey's house in Auburn. Thanksgiving night we drove up to Chelsey's family's cabin at Lake Tahoe (about 90 minutes away) and spent all day Friday (including skiing) and Saturday morning. Saturday afternoon we drove back to Auburn and visited a famous bridge, went bowling, and had In and Out Burgers for dinner. Sunday morning we left to come home having had a wonderful time.
Hanging out in the frequent flier lounge at Denver Airport
Thursday AM feast preparations
Allie enjoys a little breakfast
The puppies: Ari Gold
...and Zoe
The puppies know they have to stay out of the kitchen, but wait just outside hoping for a handout
Levi poses under one of about 10 redwood trees in their beautiful and huge backyard
Allie makes apple pie dessert
Levi puts the finishing touches on the turkey
Chelsey teaches us a new holiday breakfast favorite: sausage and cheese balls
What is becoming a Thanksgiving tradition at Levi and Chelsey's: watching the national dog show with the puppies (who are very interested and have to be calmed down now and then)
Levi exercising his right as the head of the household: the first drumstick
Papa Randy whips up the gravy
Grandma Jane makes the homemade rolls
Our Thanksgiving table
We are thankful for the food which we are about to eat
Friday the snowboarder (and skier) head to the Sugar Bowl ski resort for a few hours on the slopes
Friday evening we head into the town of Lake Tahoe for a little site-seeing and lake-side dining
Nothing says "vacation" better than relaxing in a mountain cabin with a warm fire, good food, family, good books and funny movies
The ForestHill Bridge is California's highest bridge, and was used in the opening scene of the Vin Diesel movie, "XXX" (triple X).
In a sad but sort of funny way, there are suicide help phone lines at both ends and in the middle of the bridge: Jarom talks to the operator about his options
Lots of love messages scratched into the railing
Winding up Saturday with In and Out Burgers and bowling
Allie made sure we had lots of pictures of Levi
Tasting some really hot chili sauce and attempting front flips on snowboards at the Sugar Bowl ski resort
