We continued our Day Trip prior to attending the wedding that afternoon by going up the road to see the Lakes Basin area and drive by some lakes. It was a gorgeous drive, the lakes were so pretty. Photos to follow.
I think this one was called Salmon Lake. So pristine. So smokey!
People were out on kayaks and canoes. We passed lots of campgrounds (full ones) on the way. We saw so many campgrounds and I'm glad people are taking advantage of being outside. It is truly gorgeous up here! We were so amazed by so many healthy pretty trees. Tall trees! All our trees have been killed off by bark beetles. And they are not so big, either.
I missed these two photos from the Frazier Falls hike. See the Ghost Trees?
And the LEANing trees?
From the Salmon Lake area, we wound through the mountains further (We are in the Plumas National Forest) and headed toward the set of ponds/lakes called
1. Sand Pond. It's really clear, shallow and for swimming and floating in.
It is fed by a lake above it by an older little spillway/ditch, which was later (1965) replaced by a larger spillway to feed Sand Pond.
Lower Sardine Lake is behind that dam (below)
Here is lower Sardine Lake. There is NO swimming allowed here. But there IS fishing allowed. They have a little dock, a restaurant on the shore, and it's cute. There were several fisher people out on boats. It's very quiet. Except the spillway right next to me on my left as I took this photo was gurgling quite pleasantly as the water ran down toward Sand Pond and the swimmers/floaters.
Our hotel host told us about a path up past this Lower Sardine Lake that would lead to the Upper Sardine lake and a view of the Buttes. Those are the Buttes, but unfortunately we cannot see them for the massive amounts of smoke clouding up the air!! tragic.
AND THEN,
After we had enjoyed the scenery of the area, we returned to the Sierra Sky Lodge, took a dip in their pool (which we had all to ourselves). We got ready and headed over to the Twenty Mile House venue for a lovely wedding in the woods of Alec Liebhardt and Skotti. Both from Battle Mountain, NV. I don't know how they ever knew of this spot, but they did. They tried to do it in June, but were COVID cancelled. I'd RSVP'd that we would not be able to attend initally since it was when our June family reunion was planned (which was NOT COVID cancelled!). So when they moved it to August, we gratefully accepted their invite. It's a lovely venue. They are a lovely couple and we wish them well. Both want to head to medical school. Both have bachelor's degrees from UN Reno.
Other than Troy and Darla Liebhardt (the parents of the Groom) we only knew Scott and Teresa Liebhardt. (Teresa above, with Mike).
We witnessed the wedding, we enjoyed snacks (because I cannot spell hors 'douevrs)
Abovew. That's where the dinner was served.
They were so polite with the cake-cutting.
And then people danced. Those are the bride and groom's fathers, dancing in front of the DJ.
Pretty lights, lovely spot. Historic buildings all around. It was fun. We left like old fogies around 8:30 pm because we really didn't want to dance (or watch people get progressively more drunk!)
On Sunday, the 23rd, Mike and I had breakfast (from the basket , ha), had home church in our room, then we left through all the smoke and haze and drove to Colfax, CA to see Roy and Mickey Bauer.
I didn't take a photo there, unfortunately.
But Jacob took a nice one on Mickey's phone and she shared it with us. Aaron and his family was there, too, from Pennsylvania. They have 5 kids. Jacob said he's 41 years old now. Sheesh. We sure have old kids! haha.
It was fun to see them for a bit. Roy's not in the photo because he had to attend a Zoom church meeting.
Eventually, some areas were cleared of smoke enough that you could glimpse blue sky. But only briefly. It was smokey all the way until we were in Southern Nevada and Utah on Monday afternoon.
After we left the Bauer's house in Colfax, CA, we just headed up Interstate 80 to Elko/Spring Creek Nevada and got to Gail and Seth's house that evening and spend the night. They had just come in late that day from Cedar City and Richfield! So on Friday and Saturday night, they slept in our bed in Cedar City. On Sunday night, we slept in their bed in Spring Creek.
Mike and I got home on Monday evening 8/24/2020, around 6 pm or so. Long trip. Fun trip. 1,500 miles trip. Good trip. Glad we went.
And you should check out the cool (empty) wine bottle we snagged from the wedding dinner. It was on our table, and we were just drinking water. But it was so pretty...Rose wine was in it, and it has rose flower shape on the base. I'm going to see if I can press a pie crust using it. Or sugar cookies! Or we'll just have a pretty glass water bottle in our fridge for cold water.
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