How We Spent the Pandemic, part 1

In April 2020, my plan was to wait for school to resume:  I'll post again when things are more normal.  

FYI, this was our last "normal" weekend, spent in Truckee.

If I'd known on March 14th this was going to be my last meal in a restaurant for 4 months, I might have picked something fancier than the nacho & beer place:

If I had a different kind of job, we likely would have just stayed in Truckee.  On the plus side, thanks to being classified an Essential Worker,  I did manage to get my hands on the hottest spring accessory:

The school closure was extended after Spring Break, so we spent as much time as we could in Truckee, whenever I had a string of days off or telemedicine days.  Of course, there was no skiing, but we could perfect the sledding run and get outdoors with Roux. 

It was kind of nice to see winter change to spring in Tahoe - soccer usually keeps us in San Francisco this time of year.  We found a fun new hike at Chickadee Ridge.  The kids can kind of take or leave the hike, but they like all the chickadees who will swoop down and take sunflower seeds from your hand.

Somehow, we muddled through to the Last Day of "School":

And I thought, it's gonna be a weird summer, we should just try to enjoy what we can, I'm not going to worry about recording it for posterity.  In June, shelter-in-place restrictions started to lift, and our outdoor options expanded to:

Donner Lake State Park

the ropes & zipline course in Tahoe City

Fields of Light at Sensorio in Paso Robles

(which also gave us an excuse to visit Morro Bay)

The Tahoe Donner marina & pool, which were greatly improved by instituting a crowd control reservation system, IMHO.

Lucie kept up her riding lessons in Pacifica -

- and I miraculously managed to get my hands on a new mountain bike for Brennan’s 12th birthday.

Hang on for more pandemic hijinks in Part 2!