Tahoe or Bust...

Heidi writes:

Sorry for the delay in not updating sooner. It has been one of those weeks. Jeff and I went to Tahoe City (North Tahoe) with some of my co-workers/classmates last weekend. We had a really good time. One of the girls has an uncle with a condo up there and he let us stay there for free - it was a nice place and it wasn't too far from the water. It was also great weather - high 60s/low 70s all weekend. We got there on Friday afternoon, hung out, went to dinner and walked around for a while. That night, we went to the casinos in Nevada (about 15 minutes away). Saturday, we went on a boat tour of Lake Tahoe and more specifically of Emerald Bay. The water and views were absolutely amazing!! We got some really good pictures. We conked out for a couple of hours in the afternoon, but had a great time that night. We went back to the casinos and had the $2.99 steak and eggs breakfast :-) It was so much fun! Here are a few pictures from the trip:

These two pictures were taken from the boat. We have a ton of pictures from the trip!

The tree above may look young and small, but it is actually over 150 years old!! It just can't grow any bigger because there is no place for the roots to grow in the rocks!

Below is the group we went with (right to left): Jeremy, Kelly, Shiraz, Junior, Sylvia, Kari, Amy, Jason, Heidi, Jeff. Below is the boat that we road on. It was a good time!



Not a lot of plans for this weekend. We are going to hang out with people on Friday and not sure what else for the rest of the weekend.

This week has been good. We had a big program tonight - Safe Trick or Treat on campus. We had over 400 kids attend!! It is also Alcohol Awareness Week and there a lot of programs for that. We are also getting ready for International Education Week in a couple of weeks, so that will be fun :-) Next weekend I get to go to an RA conference (I am presenting a program at it) and the weekend after that I will be going to Regional NASPA in San Francisco, so that will be fun.

Time is just flying by and I am excited for the semester to be over. I don't have too many things left - about 3 presentations, 4 major papers, 5 smaller papers, and an oral exam. It seems like a lot, but with the work I have done so far, it is not that much.

Jeff is doing well. He handed in his application to participate in Leadership Lodi and hopefully that will work out for him. He will be on a committee with other business-people from Lodi and will be doing a community-improvement project.

One other thing going on - we are hoping to bring Bait and Tackle back with us when we are home in Dec. A few of us have done research on pet policies at other universities across the US. Jason, one of the GRDs here, has put together an excellent proposal. He has convinced everyone he has presented to thus far and has one more committee left - with all of the "important" people. I am hoping it goes well!! We have really good relationships with the higher-ups, so hopefully they will be on our side and say "yes"!! Of course, we will have to sedate them both (especially Bait) because they hate being in cars or any other form of a vehicle - he would start hyper-ventilating again and probably wouldn't make it out here.

OK, this is long and it is getting late. I hope all is well with everyone! I will try to upload pictures tomorrow - and hopefully they will load!

Have a great wedding Nick and Karin - we will be thinking about you!!!