Neither of us slept too well. The room did not have air con as it is primarily a Winter Resort. It was still quite hot throughout the night, and Karen resorted to laying with cold wet flannels on her.
Breakfast for the next few mornings was to be in our room. Well that was the plan and it worked for Karen who had a small box of Bran Flakes she had ‘acquired’ from a previous Hotel. I was to have porridge. I made it up in a bowl, put in the microwave and nothing happened. A wasted 15 minutes later and I concluded the microwave was broken. I had a banana instead. The owners were so helpful when I reported it and just swapped the microwave out straightaway.
Arriving at Inspiration Point, one of the two viewpoints overlooking Emerald Bay, even at that early hour we managed to secure the last parking spot in the small car park. As we walked to look at the view, I chatted to someone who said they had tried to visit this spot the day before but had been able to get anywhere near it this vindicating our decision to get here early.
The bay is attached to the Lake and is renown for its Emerald colour. I’m not sure if we were seeing it at the best time of the year or what, but it didn’t look that much different in colour to us. We have seen far far better in the Rockies last year. The whole vista though was lovely and pretty special. We took the usual photos and then decided to drive onto Eagle Falls which fed into the bay. By now it was getting busy but we managed to find a ‘spot’ outside the proper car park on the side of the road. We walked and took some more photos of the bay before walking down the road to the Eagle Falls Trail.
Lake Tahoe was growing on us. Even more for Karen as on the way back to the Hotel we went to Starbucks and sat outside for a while. Having a nice nearby Starbucks makes for a happy Karen. A happy wife means a happy life.
We ate at Base Camp Pizza, which Karen declared to be her new best Pizza ever. The place was extremely busy and had a long queue which we bypassed by sitting at the outside bar. There was a band playing on the porch and everyone were enjoying themselves. Then we noticed that next door was a Cold Stone Creamery. This was turning into one of Karen’s best days. She joined the queue and had a Strawberry Concoction which was huge and deemed to be really good. We then wandered round the resort and found a few other places we could have eaten at. We browsed a few shops before heading back to our room for the night.