Sunburn

Yesterday was the last day on vaca and now am back in RoseTown. We planned to pack up, hit the pool for an hour, and then head home.... We had the house packed, all 18 bikes on the trailer, and everybody ready to go by about 10 AM. We were hanging poolside by 10:30... and 5+ hours later we finally left for home! What a day! I am feeling a bit sunburned today after a week in the high elevation sun. I think Truckee is just about 6,000 feet up... or about 5,999 feet higher than the flat land of SacTown! That much closer to the sun means that much more intensive sun rays on my bald head!

The pool at Old Greenwood is just exceptional. Actually, there are two; one just for adults and one for the masses. Could be because our favorite pool side waiter this week was named Danny and it could be the chaos of kids around the pool but I often reflected back on Caddy's Day at the Bushwood pool in Caddyshack. We even made a joke about a Baby Ruth floating in the pool.

The main pool at Old Greenwood is pretty good sized with a nice water slide, a hot tub, and a separate little kid's pool with separate water slide, water guns, etc... and then next to that is a sand vollyball court and large kid's playground. All gated in so parents can feel pretty relaxed that their kids won't escape! Inside is the kid's club where you can drop your kids up with supervision or the teen club with pool table, tv, etc....

Today we were laying by the pool by 10:30, jumping down the slide with the kids by 11:00, jumping into the hot tub like a 5 year old, and then back to the chairs and ordering lunch at 12:30. Sure we brought lunch but something about ordering an $18 burger makes it seem like it must be really good so had to order some grub from Danny. Props to Danny; an about to be "super senior" at Chico State. Cool guy and knew to bring me a pitcher of iced tea. He also brought Kitty Kat a pitcher of Diet Coke. Cool guy and he will go far in life. I also have a hunch he is having a very fun summer hanging out in Truckee!


As we sat by the pool the kids played in the pool, on the slide, and built forts out of tables and chairs. One a boys fort and the next door neighbor girl's fort. The girls tried to connect the two forts but that was met with opposition from the boys.

I think the kids went down the main slide about 500 times this week. I, myself, went down it several dozen. Actually pretty fun. Try the headfirst and upside down move and it's sort of cool.

We piled in the car and headed home about 4:00. The nice thing about being in Truckee... it's less than 90 minutes home! Love that short drive home from a vacation!

peace out.