South Lake Tahoe (Day Off)

So today was the first day off and man, it was refreshing. I got to sleep in today, so I slept in til 8am. Woke up, and went to the motel lobby for some continental breakfast, raisin brand never tasted so good. I was still pretty sore from yesterday. For the past year, I more or less ran every day so my legs had a pretty quick recovery time, but my quads were tired.

After breakfast, a group of us went to a nearby shopping outlet. Everything was overpriced, but it felt like South Lake Tahoe was a ghost town...I could totally see this place being packed in the winter. For lunch, we went to this place called Fire & Ice. Its was pretty much an all-you-can-eat Mongolian Barbecue, and I just went to town, I must have had at least two pounds of sirloin. During lunch, a bunch of the locals were telling us about this "castle" where Queen Elizabeth had tea at or something and was somehow connected to the vikings. We decided to check it out. We went there and we saw the most beautiful view of Lake Tahoe. I really have never seen any lake

blue-er than that. We hiked a couple miles down to the beach which had the whitest sands. As we approached the "castle", we were quite disappointed. I guess it was hyped up to be something special, nothing near the caliber of vikings or Queen Elizabeth.

We came back to the motel, took a short power nap and departed for a sponsored dinner at 5. The dinner was at this English pub and was sponsored by two guys that did Journey of Hope in 1994. It was a little different back then. There wasn't as nearly as organized, or had as many sponsors and a few other minor details. After the dinner, we came back to the motel. I went to a local laundromat and did a quick load. Came back, and went straight to sleep...a solid day off.