Vay-Cay part II

Next, we spent some time driving around Lake Tahoe and Emerald Bay.

These next couple pictures were taken on our way back from Donner Pass.

These were taken as we drove to Emerald Bay.

These are of the lookout over Emerald Bay. There is a tiny little island in the middle (tiny), and is apparently the only island in the whole lake.

The weather was a little better than it had been the last couple of days, so we decided to go on a little hike to Eagle Falls. The trail was quite wet with slushy snow, and it was impossible to avoid getting the feet wet.

Pictures don’t really do it justice. It looked much prettier in real life. Not huge waterfalls, but it did look a little bit bigger in person.

As you can see, I am not meant to be a photographer.

Shayla loves hiking on daddy’s back. 

Some more views…

It is called Eagle Falls because supposedly there are eagles in the area, and you are supposed to be able to see eagle’s nests there this time of year. We didn’t see any. We did see several bluejays though.

We would to have liked to continue along the trail further, but it was covered in snow, and therefore uncharted territory to us. David tried to go for it, but since we had no idea where we were going, we decided it probably wasn’t very smart and turned back.

We ended up climbing on top of a rock as far up as we could go, and got a few more pictures.

This is one of those pictures where you hold the camera up and hope you get yourself in it. Unfortunately for Shayla, she didn’t make the cut.

But since she’s cute, we had to take one just of her.

 

The next day was the first full day of sunshine, so we took the boat cruise of Emerald Bay.

It was cold! Trying to stay bundled up.

Coming in to the bay. It is called Emerald Bay because the water is shallow enough that the way the sun reflects it makes the water look green.

Some lady in the 1920’s built this castle Vikingsholm to resemble a Norwegian castle. It is open to tourists part of the year, but it looks like they are doing some remodeling right now.  

She also built a little tea house on the little island (Fannette island), for the servants to go have tea. I can’t remember what they said happened to it. I think was vandalized and only the walls remain. You can see it in the first picture below. It is on the right of the island just to the right of the cables.

After that, which was a little disappointing, we decided to head inside where it was warmer. Little did we know the madness that was about to ensue. It all started with this woman who stopped a couple of times to say how cute Shayla was. Then she wanted to hold her. Then she wanted to get a picture with her.

Soon after, a bunch of Indian teenage girls sitting across from us started smiling and waving at her. Pretty soon they came over and started touching her and taking pictures of her. Next thing we knew, the whole group of Indians was surrounding our table, taking pictures and hugging her, and trying their sunglasses on her. It was a little overwhelming, and they were very nice, but it was little odd, and honestly made me a little uncomfortable. It went on for about 20 minutes. Shayla never cried, but she never really smiled at them either. She kinda just sat there and endured it.

David got a little video of the escapade just as they were finishing up.

Alright. That’s enough for now. Part III…Yosemite.