When I got off the phone, we rode our rental bikes to the store and the laundromat and started a load. The boys handled the bike ride easily. We stopped at the Donner Creek Brewery for lunch, and the boys played pool. They also found a mini-Pac-Man machine in the back which was fun.
When my older sister showed up, we rode to meet her at the campground and I re-organized. We all went swimming.
We walked to the lagoon at Donner Lake and drank margaritas while the boys played on a giant rock in the lagoon. I got pictures of the boys pushing each other off of it. I also took the boys to the rope swing and jumped in with them.
When we got ready to go, we stopped by the campsite. Then I took the boys on the bike path. My sister met us at the bike shop where we dropped off our rentals.
After that we had dinner at 50/50 brewery. They had ok tacos, but I got a Caesar salad with chicken. We discussed family and politics. We also discussed the boys time on vacation; the bike ride and the boys told us their stories about the trip.
After dessert we said bye to my sister, and I enjoyed a second beer while we waited for TART Connect to show up and that ended up taking a long time. I ended up sitting outside of the restaurant watching at least a dozen kids play.
Some kids were chatting with the boys about their lives, and their questions were pretty detailed. It often happens that I have to provide my boys’ new friends with my phone number which is always awkward. In this case the kids had had actually lived near us in SF before moving away.
When we finally got back to the campsite, I chatted with the boys about detective Pikachu.
This is an occasional series chronicling my life. This Notebook Analysis series is meant to be contemporaneous piece developed as an agglomeration of my notebook pages. In each of these posts I used my notes to develop my recent thoughts.
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