2010 Christmas Travels



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I surprised John with a trip to Lake Tahoe. He opened the present...written in code of course...and realized he flies out on a skiing trip the very next morning! He hates to fly so that gave him less than 24 hrs to worry about flying! Lake Tahoe...I have never skied with a helmet until we got here!!! Nearly everyone was wearing helmets, and all the employees were required to wear them. It made me a little nervous...and all I could think of was Sonny Bono. Snowstorm hit the last afternoon we were there. More like a blizzard. It snowed so hard on the mountain that we couldn't read the trail maps. We kept going down the wrong trails! I prayed all the way down a few slopes that I have no idea what level of difficulty they were...very steep with lots of jumps is all I know. We also had to evacuate our hotel and stay in Reno so we wouldn't miss our flight the next morning. We flew back into Memphis. My parents picked us up at the airport (with our kids), and we drove to Texas. We stopped in Dallas to visit the JFK sites...grassy knoll, museum, book depository. Then, we headed on to Uncle Garry's house. Unfortunately, we all got sick. Very sick. Stomach virus sick...as guests and we all shared one bathroom. It was traumatic. But, we survived.

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