Carson City Vacation

First let me tell ya'll about the time I went through to get here...

Thursday was my day to get all my last minute running around done. I had a whole list of things to do. First thing in the morning as I was up on 90th south in Sandy, my car broke down. I was stranded up there for a couple of hours until my very, very awesome friend Jennie came and rescued me. Robby, her equally awesome husband, took time away from work to come and tow my car. He got it fixed and I had it back that night, but I missed a day of work and half my errands didn't get done. I was so thankful it broke down BEFORE my trip across the no-where-lands of Nevada and Robby said it should be safe to take... sweet.

A little behind on things, $75 broker, but excited for the trip, I started off my Friday. I had switched to the morning shift so we could head out of town by 3pm. I had my car all loaded before work, and the kids had their assignments of last minute stuff to do before I got home. The kids got out of school around noon, so I thought we'd be good to go and getting into Carson which is eight hours away not too late.

So noon comes and goes and the kids never text me to say they're home. I call them around one and then two and nothing. They don't text, they don't call so I'm wondering what the heck??? As I'm leaving work soon after two I decided to call Matt to find out if he has seen the kids. Now let me say this... I had this whole texting conversation with Matt on Thursday, telling him we'd be out of town for the long weekend. He was working 48 hrs over Saturday and Sunday, so I didn't think it would be a big deal anyways. He blahhhed and cryed that I was horrible and how could I do this to him... he hasn't seen the kids forever (since Saturday) and he neeeeded to see them on Friday. I said sorry. We were heading out by 3pm. So anyways. Matt doesn't answer my call, but does reply to my text. It seems he likes to occasionally remind me how thankful I am to no longer be married to him. He decided I wasn't being fair, picked the kids up at school and took them out of town until 9pm. I called the cops. They said it was a civil matter and they couldn't do anything.

I almost just left them and headed out of town, but I decided he couldn't be trusted to actually take care of them over the weekend. So I cried all afternoon until they got home. Then I lost it and yelled at the kids. I know it wasn't really their fault, but they knew we were supposed to leave town. They didn't call or anything. I was so furious and we are now saving up $1000 to take Matt to court to get visitation and other things set into stone so this doesn't happen again. I slept for 3 hours and got up at 1am so we could head out of town. I drove all night and thank goodness didn't fall asleep and crash. Also, the cord I bought for my DVD player didn't work :( It was a long horrible couple of days.

Once we got to Carson, I slept for an hour. Not near long enough and we got dressed and headed to Lake Tahoe. It was beautiful and a lot of fun. I wish I wouldn't have been so tired and crappy-feeling and I would've had a lot more fun. The kids LOVED playing on the beach.

The first beach we went to was Zephyr Cove. It was rocky, but the kids had fun playing around and climbing on rocks.

This is us standing in two places at once :) We're in Nevada and California at the same time.

This is Sand Harbor beach. It was so gorgeous. It was just like being at the ocean. I took a ton of pictures and the kids could've stayed for hours. They had a blast swimming and playing in the waves. They dried off on the warm sand. We'll definately have to come back again... and next time with swimsuits and towels :)