road trip weekend

Adam on the boat getting ready for the day. Love being out on the water :-)
31 weeks pregnant.. ready to go out on the boat :-)

Weekend Summary:

Adam had a mandatory compliance conference in Reno, NV from Sun-Tues. for work so I decided to tag along! We were scheduled to drive up to Reno on Saturday. Thursday night we were planning our route and discovered that there were two ways to get there- one was the 395 and the other was the 5. Well, as it turns out, my parents were going to be at the Sacramento River Delta for a short boat trip. My brother and Anna were going to drive down from San Francisco to get a little time on the water as well. Well, since we discovered it was actually on our way we figured we would drive up after work Friday night and then spend Saturday on the water with them. We would leave Sunday after breakfast to finish the last couple hours on the road and get to Reno in time for the first session at the conference! It turned out to be a great choice. We had a fabulous time out on the water (I even enjoyed myself despite not being able to ski or anything!) and enjoyed trying out the new boat. We look forward to many more times using that boat in the years to come! We all had dinner together Saturday night before Matt and Anna drove back up to San Fran (matt had to be back at the hospital 6am Sunday for a 24 hr shift).
Adam and I left Sunday morning after breakfast and made a quick stop in Truckee (cute town) then continued on our way through the mountains (beautiful) to Reno. We arrived just in time and he went on to his conference while I relaxed in the nice hotel room (comfy beds!). I was pretty wiped from being out on the water the whole day before and all the time in the car. Sunday night we went to a nice (fancy and delicious) dinner at one of the restaurants in the hotel (picture a vegas style hotel) that was paid for/part of the conference. We spent 3 hours at dinner and were stuffed.... we had salad, prime rib, and a huge piece of delicious cheesecake! Monday morning Adam was back at the conference while I relaxed a bit in the room. I met up with Amber, another girl who also tagged along with her hubby and we went to lunch together then relaxed out by the pool. It was wonderful. That night there was this massive bowling tournament with the whole conference. It was at the National Bowling Stadium.... we're talking huge. As in a serious professional bowling stadium. It was a crack up. I had to buy some socks from a vending machine there and when they came out they said "I heart bowling" around the ankles. Total keepers. HA! We had a blast with the Bakers (Amber and her husband Daniel) and then we crashed when it was all over. We all drove home together (they had flown up and drove back with us) on Tuesday after the conference was over around 1. It was a long but beautiful drive home and we laughed at least half of the way home :-0 Once we passed Lone Pine there was a massive lightening storm to our left that was probably one of the biggest I've ever seen. There was almost constant lightening and it was so big that it remained on our left for the next few hours til we made it home. Beautiful.

Well, that's it!